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mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 there is no way you can draw 40kw off your apt grid right now.
mircea_popescu: 20 amps at 220 volts is over 4kw, which is considered sufficient
mircea_popescu: commercially you can get (easily) 380 volts and i think it carries about 120 amps max
mircea_popescu: yes well... eu residential power is 220 v and < 20 amps
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 around here you can get 380V triphase installed just on asking
mircea_popescu: tbh i don't know how you can get 10kW installed comercially.
mircea_popescu: im not gonna. guy's entitled to being stupid ocasionalyl, he has a name.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the dollar is insanely volatile these days has little bearing on anything other than... the dollar itself.
mircea_popescu: "our currency collapsed against this thing therefore this thing can't be used to price hamburgers in"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the usual set of ignorant/half informed nonsense people do these days
mircea_popescu: sounds a lot like the internet is not like a truck argument.
mircea_popescu: basically the internet is this place where funny just grows. like a sort of agar for humor.
mircea_popescu: people have found the article where some doods who explain how $600 is way too much are being hammered, and want to add their own "$3000 is too much" contributions.
mircea_popescu: "This is not the case here. Paying the 30BTC doesn’t mean that other people can then trade via me and I will be able to earn commissions from their trades."
mircea_popescu: i was just there in case they needed money to replace destroyed underwear etc.
mircea_popescu: worse than satan penis. now people think i'm going senile.
mircea_popescu: only to immediately realise that a. yes it is, b. they're getting banged and c. that's actually when you were there.
mircea_popescu: that awkward moment when you're watching a vid of some girls going down some stairs and exlaim "wait a second, this is that hotel in belgrade"
mircea_popescu: also, 100 dollars per pixel ? what's this to do with bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: The site traffic is growing every day! Today almost 1,000 uniques and counting. Be the first to pick up your spot on the homepage. Prime time to pick the best spots =)"
mircea_popescu: or bitmillions or w/e the fuck ? thye kinda run together by now
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder the million dollar bitycoin ? or the bitbillion ?
mircea_popescu: well pretty much every scam has to be tried out at least once
mircea_popescu: you know what's more idiotic than claiming you're a millionaire while begging for free pizza ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder what's the headcount of bullshit artists at today. 4bn ? 7bn ?
mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of people looking to verbally invest into btc
mircea_popescu: that conservatives always roil about and socialists keep pretending to have never quite heard of.
mircea_popescu: i guess the one most bitter lesson btc will force down people's throats is that elusive personal responsibility thing.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as people behave idiotically they have not the right to functioning mechanisms, nor are entitled to actual service.
mircea_popescu: the chief idea here is that mechanisms that exist to make this a market, and serious, and worth money, and respectable,
mircea_popescu: we are looking into it, but overall it's a difficult argument.
mircea_popescu: whether it's pirate idiocy like gigavps did, or price idiocy like keiser & co did, or simple technical idiocy like pushing tradehill or coinbase etc :
mircea_popescu: one of the key factors eveeryone has to consider when promoting idiocy,
mircea_popescu: yet he leaves the field once somebody takes out a machete.
mircea_popescu: yes. just like the guy on first base is an instrument in the game of baseball