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mircea_popescu: only indie schmucks deliver
things. actually listed companies, be
they s.nsa or 21co don't lower
themselves
to
that!
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 20:35:54; ascii_field: if any of you lot have
the
time and energy, buy one of
these
things & reverse it
mircea_popescu: i'd pay money for
that if i had kids in
the 9-15 range.
trinque: asciilifeform:
that was just
the advertising
to bring in
that massive round
mircea_popescu: the ultimate puzzle of course being how
to flash
the damned
thing.
mircea_popescu: actually, im mildly surprised at
this very retarded approach.
the correct way
to do
this would be - have intentionately crippled miner.
to decripple, kid has
to solve puzzles.
pete_dushenski: this '21 math' is all
too reminiscent of
the very same exercise we did back in may of
this year : www.contravex.com/2015/05/15/21-inc-and-comcast-sitting-in-a-tree-d-e-r-p-i-n-g/
mircea_popescu: "say doc... why is my boy not breaking all his shit like all
the other boys ?!"
mircea_popescu: if anything survives five seasons
the kid should be
taken
to doctor.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you'll know if
this is
their "killer ap" by xmas advertising.
mircea_popescu: besides,
that $450 mud bike
thery want is just gonna produce hospital bills.
mircea_popescu: there is some appeal
to giving a kid a goose
that lays a dollar egg each day.
gribble: The average
time
to generate a block at 120000.0 Mhps, given difficulty of 59335351233.9, is 67 years, 17 weeks, 6 days, 4 hours, 15 minutes, and 47 seconds
gribble: use
the 'gentime' command instead
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 20:33:23; ascii_field: at
the upper end of
the claimed hash rate, and supposing phree mains current,
the
thing will mine, at
TODAY's difficulty.... 0.0012 btc/day.
mircea_popescu: also quietly discarded. like
this will be, in a few years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you have
to understand,
the 21
thing is merely a remake of an ancient attempt by
the coinbase/foundation scammers. it was called "coinlab".
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 20:32:19;
thestringpuller: I'm pretty sure ASICminer
tried
this with
the USB miners
mircea_popescu: looky here : vc wants "adoption", and "adoption" means basically
trying
to hot
topic all over something.
mircea_popescu: how about
the neobee "brick and mortar stores" ? could you see a reason for
those
to exist ?
mircea_popescu: iirc
they had some sort of graphical interface bs.
there was demand for
that in industrial circles quite legitimately
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 20:22:11; ascii_field:
these are
the 'buy light bulbs
that mine for usg' log-reader folks aren't
they.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was acquired by greylock and atlantic, who, according
to him, fucked it all up.
mircea_popescu: the facts of
the matter are
that it had a positive cash flow and no investment.
mircea_popescu: now it's a fucking laughingstock, like declaring it hard
to lose money by playing scratch loittery.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when greenspun wrote
that, he wasn't entirely wrong. yet.
mircea_popescu: i wanna meet
the guy
that DIDNT loise money paying mit-educated anythings 50-85k a year
to do whatever
they did. which whatever may not include "being acquired" or other purely bezzlematic shenanigans.
mircea_popescu: " But sitting in
the parking lot it gave us
the appearance of extravagance while inside
the building we were living
the frugal life--in a world starved for software development
talent, it would have been hard
to lose money paying MIT-educated programmers $50-85,000 base salaries plus an end-of-year bonus based on accomplishment and
the firm's performance."
mircea_popescu: whosoever proposes
they are actually valuable. by
the flow of
that conversation it seemed
that includes you.
mircea_popescu: if vc comes
to me with 20mn on
the premise i get
to keep 1mn if i spend 10mn hiring
these idiots
mircea_popescu: which is how
the largest dispute
to date we had has been over... fucking compatibility.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's not even my angle. my angle is
this : "yes it makes sense for
the company YOU PAID MONEY BEFORE
to protect your investment IN
THEIR SHIT. but you didn't pay me jack, did you ? I WILL BURN IT ON GENERAL PRINCIPLE AND FUCK YOU FOR HAVING PAID
THE ENEMY."
mircea_popescu: this incidentally also goes for socialism, which yes, inasmuch as it's "the political ideology of
the stupid" is indistinguishable from applied dadaism.
mircea_popescu: ergo d.
the only way for it
to pay bills is
through cannibalizing its own membership for
the onlyt
thing
they're good for : butt
tears.
mircea_popescu: b.
the only people who give a shit about dadaist stuff are involved in it ; c. it's not fucking funny.
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 01:55:29; mircea_popescu: what "go suck
the cock of
the people who made
the
thing
that surprised you for a while, because obviously
they know and obviously you don't". nonono, HE IS GOING
TO HAVE IDEAS.
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 18:48:18; phf: i guess
that's why dadaist groups all have long history of denouncement, usually ending with
the original founder remaining. otherwise you always have some entrenched fuck proposing a markdown jet, because useful and doesn't hurt and shrug. but when it's
the founder itself..
mircea_popescu: which is why
the stupid never fail and
the smart never succeed.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i suspect a lot of
the mommentum for
the entire "oh broken factors" comes from historical accident. it was in point of fact research into elliptic curves
that yielded
the fermat proof,
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 01:51:12; mircea_popescu: some are here
to lead and some others are here
to follow, it is a given like e is a given.
mircea_popescu: btw wiles looks a lot like brin
the elder wouldn't you
think ?
mircea_popescu: so it'll prolly be resolved, if ever, by a
totally unexpected and half nutty formalism
mircea_popescu: i didn't mean "i should like for someone
to show me how math works". i just meant i dunno
that
there's even a promising direction of research into
the matter.