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mircea_popescu: the consensus is, it makes more sense
to hoard NRFB smartphones
than gold.
jurov: so
the consensus is.. i should start stocking on hdds/ssds?
ascii_field: pretty much 90% of my 'rich' fantasy consists of being able
to actually do my hardwired 26-hour circadian instead of pretending, badly,
to do
the standard 24
ascii_field is
to sleep as
the archetypical sex starved 14 y.o. is
to sex
ascii_field: wake me up when
the makers of 2007-present autos hang
mircea_popescu: no, it does not work. it merely appears
to have worked
ascii_field: however it works if 'that's how world works' and
the consumer frog is boiled 1) reasonably slowly 2) in unison
mircea_popescu: the soviets
tried
the inflatatron, but by making shitstick cellphgone. it blew in
their face)
mircea_popescu: (incidentally -0
this is how
the russians ruined
their at some point fledging industrial reputation
mircea_popescu: yeah but i don't see how
the smartphone made out of shit and sticks will cut it
ascii_field: the other
thing is
that price doesn't double when
those directly hit can 'borrow' using shitflation - e.g., switch
to chinese electrolytic capacitors instead of fukkupied jp parts
mircea_popescu: price doubled. (price doubled specifically bnecause it wasn't all
the way, incidentally)
mircea_popescu: but yes : goods
there moved from pipeline
to storage like... halfway. 1/3 of a way really
mircea_popescu: jurov nah it was like 3, and in any case
the weather stayed bad and 90% of production was in
the same area.
ascii_field: but all of
this is re: generic
technocollapse
jurov: you remember
that flood? and it was only one factory
ascii_field: as it is, a used car's worth of benjie buys
the lot.
mircea_popescu: this is
the star line of goods. just like normal stars.
mircea_popescu: that 1%
total sale volume is
the last sustainable place for it, after price increases past 100x demand collapses entirely and
the good either becomes monetized or disappears outright, in
the hands of collectors.
mircea_popescu: so, sales of 100 units/day, at 100x what
they cost a day, some point at
t5.
mircea_popescu: the good now moves from pipeline
to sotrage pricing, and as a result it will slowly dwindle as price goes exponential and demand collapses.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field here's
the model i propose
to you : current debit is 1mn units/day, say, call
this
t0. "world ends" event,
t1. prices spike 40-50% and social support wanes. demand drops 80%.
this is
t2. production stops, and
the pipeline gets diverted
to storage,
this is
t3.
ascii_field: i won't be surprised if we learn
that usg has purchased and burned
the bulk of
those.
mircea_popescu: not for a moment was i proposing user-owned shit
to make it. but
there's boxes.
mircea_popescu: that's what drives
the price : as
the stored stuff gets delivered
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 19:29:50; mircea_popescu: nah.
they're not actually useful and were made in bulk, so.
mircea_popescu: and for
the record,
that guardian article is a horrible hack job. it looks like someone
took a camera and went
to a coupla yard sales. wtf guardian, seriously ? you ever seen new jersey ?
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 17:45:45; pete_dushenski: robert
tilton really is doing "god's work". dude scammed john oliver out of $319 over a period of 7 months.
mircea_popescu: "if you have any option besides paying in bitcoin, USE
THAT. wtf is wrong with you anyway."
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 17:35:12; kakobrekla: really it prolly should be more expensive
than _ANY_ other way of paying.
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 17:28:32; kakobrekla: stress network meh,
thanks for derping in
the history of everything forever and no way
they heard of
testnet.
mircea_popescu: yea. and in 2020 a phone
that has 32 gb card will cost 100x what
the phone with
the 64 gb card cost in 2015.
mircea_popescu: a more pointed example of how
the entire
thing just ground
to a halt could not be devised if one
tried. and yet
the derp figures
this bolsters his case. because he went
to a school in
the united states.
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 15:46:27; pete_dushenski: "Gavin has done more for bitcoin in a few years
than you could do in a life
time. 2003 128mb in my phone, 2006 1Gb on my phone. 2010 32gb on my phone, 2015, 64 gb on my phone. And your
telling me raising
the block size limit from 1
to 20 mb is an issue?"
mircea_popescu is kinda
tooi lazy
to dig up
that article with
the oglaf cartoon re
the electoral debater.
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 15:09:37; BingoBoingo: Or
the ones on
the AWS ip space
ascii_field: 'i speak for
the
trees, for
the
trees have no
tongues!1'
mircea_popescu: why is astroturfing so fundamental
to usg political
thought is beyond me.
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 14:50:30; Naphex: BingoBoingo: amazon seems
to be supporting it hard lol
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 14:31:36; asciilifeform: nah but you 'get points for
trying' if you break your fists. somehow. in
the bizarre usg
twerp view of
the world.
mircea_popescu: i guess
they did get something from
the early mpoe-pr adversative marketing
techniques. so in
that sense less dumb
than most forum derps.
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 14:27:14; punkman: "The previous CoinWallet
test only achieved about 15% of its output because its servers crashed."
assbot: The news, in brief : "Hearn is a shitstain, MP is right, fuck reddit. Love, Satoshi" on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1Eyf7mo )
trinque: how's
this not just any other altcoin?
trinque has begun
to not care, open
to reasons why he should
mircea_popescu: "nah man, she does
this
trick where she grabls her knees and spits in her own snatch afterwards, i've never seen anything like it."
shinohai: dun hurt
to always marry a girl at
the
top of her blowjob game, either.
mircea_popescu: but i did order mcdonalds icecream cones be purchased and sampled, because wtf already, when i came here first i was shocked at how good
the icecream was.
then i found a place which shocked me again, at how good
their icecreeam was over argentine icecream. and recentyly found a second, which YET AGAIN
trinque: sure,
told her all of
that
mircea_popescu: trinque dun hurt
telling
these
things out plain, in general.
trinque: neotony, it's a
thing, I've learned :p
trinque: she saw herself developing into a woman due
to my books and fucking, and couldn't deal with
that
punkman: mircea_popescu:
they drop
the mcd on
their own. << yeah
that's what I was shooting for, why would a good slavegirl want
to vote in derplections?
trinque: yeah, of course
this was a goodbye, so I have made an assessment of whether
the
tumor's extractable
phf: trinque: in my experience you want
to bring
that socialist stuff
to
the surface asap, and
then nip it in
the bud, or end
the whole
thing if failed. eventually
the unexplored is going
to be what creates strife
mircea_popescu: trinque see ?
that's your spv. "you're my
thing, and if you shut up and suck it you may one day be smart enough
to do all
the
things you don't like
toi
think about now because you're unsure"
ascii_field: was answering
the 'who would you order
them
to vote for'
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if you enforce looks and a fuckable muscle
tone,
they drop
the mcd on
their own.
trinque: girl in question went from being a retail something
to a project manager at a software company
trinque: and
this has usually had a wonderful result
trinque: yeah I've said
things like
that, and not asked whether
mircea_popescu: punkman i don't care either way,
they can vote if
they want
to, what.
ascii_field: let's also ask which mcdonalds item
they will be ordered
to eat?
mircea_popescu: that question divides
the abstract world in
two. not even
that one or
the other of
the
two kinds is better. merely
the distinction is useful in and of itself.
punkman: why would you let
them vote?
trinque: no, never been my style
to
try
to control
those
things
mircea_popescu: one of
the most useful conceptual
tools at your disposal. "am i doing
this because i'm not sure i'm
the king-emperor, or because it's what
the king-emperor does ?"
mircea_popescu: and i mean... girls who'd lovingly, readily lick your asshole if you don't feel like using
toilet paper, devoted.
mircea_popescu: lemme ask you
this. if you were
the well bearded patriarch of a most devouted harem
trinque: but anyhow, I'm leaving
this state and she's voting for hillary or something