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mircea_popescu: details— text strings are chosen numerically from a lookup table and assembled to produce unique descriptions for each planet). This means that no extra memory is needed to store the characteristics of each planet, yet each is unique and has fixed properties. Each galaxy is also procedurally generated from the first.
mircea_popescu: The Elite universe contains eight galaxies, each galaxy containing 256 planets to explore. Due to the limited capabilities of 8-bit computers, these worlds are procedurally generated. A single seed number is run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each planet's complete composition (position in the galaxy, prices of commodities, and even name and local
mircea_popescu: i was explaining how the death is supposed to work, person went "sounds like improved EVE" i was wtf is eve and so...
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves not really part of either, just stumbled into it.
mircea_popescu: <rulother-gs> You try to say anything negative about AMC on reddit and you get down voted into oblivion <<< reddit is dumb.
mircea_popescu: matthew_boyd i think you speak for most people here when you say that.
mircea_popescu: now... make it illegal today and you'll make it mandatory tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: whenever people want to know who satoshi really was... well.. he was the ONE DUDE who invented sticking it in the poop[er.
mircea_popescu: in no sense under the control of it's "inventor", who's in fact a discoveror.
mircea_popescu: however, this is not the case. bitcoin is in fact a law, like gravity,
mircea_popescu: people like to think of bitcoin in terms of it being a thing, like an iphone.
mircea_popescu: "I don’t think it’s either practical nor feasible nor even desirable to use Bitcoin in the day to day dabble of pizzas, phone credits, hairspray and sneakers"
mircea_popescu: omfg look at all the stuff people said about me while i was away!
mircea_popescu: however, it's well discussed there , this future of payments in bitcoin topic.
mircea_popescu: well may be an idea to read back becauyse there's some great stuff in 2012. i'd love to find you the exact one but i gotta jet right now
mircea_popescu: consider that most in light of the effects of me saying "stop buying"
mircea_popescu: it seems to me you're the only one who doesn't read trilema
mircea_popescu: and if that'd happen they'd immediately buy groceries.
mircea_popescu: for the benefit of people whose income could at most be upset by finding 20 bucks on the sidewalk,
mircea_popescu: sdrs are for participating states. bitcoin is for participating people. not an exact equivalent, but it does explain well how something can have value and not be exchangeable for groceries
mircea_popescu: i have my doubts about random muckracking emptyeddepended
mircea_popescu: just like i showed the SDRs as the exact equivalent, and people ignored it because well... they never had one so it don't exist.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and everyone ignored it because welll... they didn't like to hear it.
mircea_popescu: but they make a poor standard, as they're not wealthy or socially needed.
mircea_popescu: i understand that the life of most consists of a daily struggle to produce "A little pocket change".
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what if you turned all your dollars into land ?
mircea_popescu: if you turn all your dollars into btc ostensibly political process and government behaviour no longer affects your wealth.
mircea_popescu: the only way the terms make sense is if you're talking about fiat's value (in Bitcoin)
mircea_popescu: only way to make it appear relevant is through a leap of faith, aka willing suspension of thought.
mircea_popescu: this is however vastly irrelevant. squirrels are squirrels and people only matter inasmuch as they manage to treat that which matters rather than that which they "feel" is "relevant"
mircea_popescu: to "most others" whether squirrels are happy is "relevant"
mircea_popescu: i disagree that the cost of bitcoin in dollars is relevant for anything but bernanke.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> maybe there should be a btc-alliance, businesses that refuse to accept fiat << yeah. there is. everything i do.
mircea_popescu: most of the economy is NOT goods, and most business cycles are not tangible in that snese.
mircea_popescu: but if you divide the total money supply to the total goods supply you'll get 85`000 dollar apples.
mircea_popescu: i get that everyone has this personal "o, itams" approach to finance,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there is totally btc business cycles. dice corp takes in profits, distributes to shareholders.
mircea_popescu: this has little to do with bitcoin, is just how fiat reflects itself in it.
mircea_popescu: the FIAT PRICE of bitcoin is dependent on the flow of fiat.
mircea_popescu: somehow people have come to believe homebrew is a better solution than the actual solution for some reason.
mircea_popescu: wherein you could make symmetrical assets which allow you to play the mining futures market
mircea_popescu: afaik tat.vm is an attempt by ThickAsThieves to implement the old brendio idea,
mircea_popescu: how much premium today would you want to give away your btc capital tomorrow ?
mircea_popescu: start thinking not from "o i could make some btc" perspective but fgrom the "how could i employ my btc" perspective.
mircea_popescu: the problem is exactly that. you can end up with 500k btc in liabilities. then what ?
mircea_popescu: <mjrIII> while bitcoin is volatile, it isn't that volatile << so you think.