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mircea_popescu: Namworld you think 50 btc or w/e it is changes my mind about stuff like submitting us taxids ?!
mircea_popescu: dub manufacturer yes. the thread looks like it's about the desginer team.
mircea_popescu: in general you should be able to borrow to pay a fixed retainer rather than have to offer the laywer a % as in personal injury cases
mircea_popescu: which is moot since he;'s arguing it as a cost reduction measure
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder and yes some lawyers do, but only when they make more that way
mircea_popescu: i never heard of engineers working on that sort of retainer.
mircea_popescu: "Another delay we've had to endure is the fact that we have effectively tied the ASIC teams payment to the success of the chip. If the chip were to be a failure they don't get paid... so they have incentive to get it right but that has made them very cautious and slow to approve final masks"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it took out the entire gold network at gnax atlanta.
mircea_popescu: we will be awash in useless chips to do any research w/e
mircea_popescu: mod6 due to painfully obvious market inefficiency i would say by the time 3rd generation asics are here
mircea_popescu: those things may be used to possibly fold, for instance, but only if you do some transforms on the fold problem to make it like a hash
mircea_popescu: <mod6> i didnt pre-order anything, because I'm a wait and see type usuall << seriously wise in this case
mircea_popescu: seeing what he thinks of price-based evaluation models lol
mircea_popescu: if there were a box into which i could go "hey, there was this graph like so and so somewhere"
mircea_popescu: i have this advantage that i get high on my own neurotransmitters, as my sister put it. of course everyone wants to be friends with me.
mircea_popescu: Schadenfreude, Bugpowder did you two see my latest production ?
mircea_popescu: next time anyone whines about "500 dollars" im showing them this.
mircea_popescu: "Henderson Brothers, Inc., the specialist in our shares, is the oldest continuing specialist firm on the Exchange; its progenitor, William Thomas Henderson, bought his seat for $500 on September 8, 1861."
mircea_popescu: mod6 the minimum age for men is 50. the maximum age for women is 32.
mircea_popescu: Bridge is such a sensational game that I wouldn't mind being in jail if I had three cellmates who were decent players and who were willing to keep the game going twenty-four hours a day.
mircea_popescu: there should be a bet : does bfl deliver before pirate pays ?