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mats: though on last check he seemed
to be more likely
to be aligned with gavin (bitcoin for
the people, etc)
trinque: "they can have it if
they do not break it"
trinque: dunno how someone who was paranoid enough
to never speak his own name would allow gavin and company
to crawl all over his greatest work
mats: or perhaps he reads
the logs.
trinque: him staying silent during
things like
the blocksize "debate" speaks volumes imo
mircea_popescu: otherwise, not even
the us supreme court rules without a case.
trinque: it would be an incredible
thing if
the man has
the keys and has shown
this much restraint
mircea_popescu: if his strange does not suck, you can keep
talking about its strangeness all you want.
mircea_popescu: satoshi could pop up, propose some arbitrary strange, and have everyone (everyone
that matters, ie, with money!) presented with
the dilemma : do
they buy up
the stash ? or do
they move on
to
the strange ?
mircea_popescu: decimation i mean
the original, end of 2014/2015 dispute, about "herp derp we'll raise
the block limit"
mircea_popescu: in
the end, it reduces
to "does he have
the intellectual authority
to bluff". well... do you have
the intellectual authority
to call it ?
decimation: yeah, but what market?
the 950/1000 block rule?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> but
this brings us back
to
the question of whether mr s has ~intellectual authority~ << intellectual authority is a very simple
thing in capitalism. see it at work in how
the "blockchain size increase" was
tranched : once someone says "this is how much it costs",
the derps willing
to
talk were separated from
the people willing
to pay.
decimation: the only american autos
that 'actual people' buy are
trunks
mircea_popescu: (plenty of fish being
the 5th or so dating site sold in a decade, which "Dating site" is
the
twelfth or so wheel on
the social media band wagon)
mircea_popescu: in any case, as a fun
tidbit :
the 2010
tesla ipo, first us carmaker ipo since ww2, came
to half
the recently reported plenty of fish sale
mircea_popescu: the alternative was also unpalatable
tho. you don't want
to engage in a bidding war with
the dying gm/ford
thing for
their lasty remaining shred of relevancy
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in retrospect, his going
to war with
the dealers sunk his car business. << Beware
the
trade guilds
decimation: yeah, probably anything
that will run
through
the pumps
decimation: but
the abrams
tank would burn jp-8 just fine
decimation: you could also burn 'heavy fuel oil' in
theory, but
that's not a
terribly great idea in a high reliablity application
decimation: sure,
turbine burns kerosene just fine
mats: how about
that. late 70s
tech still keeping
the lights on.
mats: >A kerosene-based fuel, JP-8 is projected
to remain in use at least until 2025. It was first introduced at NATO bases in 1978. Its NATO code is F-34.
decimation: if you wanna waste electricity like
that, might as well just split water and use hydrogen
mircea_popescu: in retrospect, his going
to war with
the dealers sunk his car business.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly detroit electric volume
touched up for
the intervening century.
decimation: trinque:
they also rely heavily on subsidy
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes
they produce cars, and
the model s sold a whopping... 75k units
trinque: hilariously,
these would be useless during
the rainy season
decimation: thus appealing
to
the kinds of people who want
to store electricity but don't care about how much
things cost
decimation: yes, note
that
this battery system costs many
times more
than lead-acid
mats: they are massively overvalued right now and i would not be interested in
taking
the other side
mircea_popescu: romania has a bunch of
these "intreprinzatori de carton", ie, cardboard entrepreneurs. one notable case (currently in jail) got
to keep ~2bn worth of romanian govt money in 1989, on condition of supporting his friends.
mircea_popescu: some earthworms find incredible caches of forgotten artefacts. doth not qualify
them as archeologists.
mircea_popescu: the substantial difference between
the subset here named and
the rest of
the set consisting of various reddit experts and your spamming friend has nothing
to do with
them
mircea_popescu: he's
the business world equivalent of a russian prison whore.
mircea_popescu: a man batting < 1% is certainly not possessed of a clue in
the field.
decimation: but
the economic prospects appear highly dubious
mircea_popescu: this is
the case of all us "entrepreneurs" active
today.
decimation: he's figured out how
to sell 'dreams' in exchange for usg subsidy and hype
mircea_popescu: (exactly
the hipster car of
today, incdentally. marketed
to women and doctors, had curved glass panes, etc)
mircea_popescu: there is good reason
to build a universal engine into a
tank intended for 1950s style attreition war.
assbot: Logged on 17-07-2015 03:03:55; mircea_popescu:
there are some "universal fuel" power generators, mostly marketed
to end user derps
mircea_popescu: soo... imo musk's electric car has failed
to reach
the sort of growth patterns and penetration goals it needed
to survive. it
therefore peaked sometime last year, and it will go
the same way all
the numerous attempts at an electric car since
the 20s have went.
decimation: this isn't really
true in areas
that have no advanced refining available
decimation: the net effect being
that
the amount of 'heavy fuel' (bunker b and c) has shrunk compared
to old process - making it more expensive
than just using diesel
decimation: it seems
the real problem with burning crude or heavy fuel oil is
that if you have enough civilization
to refine
the oil, you can make it into much more profitable products
BingoBoingo: They still run
through
the middle of my countryside, still belch foul shit
decimation: because of all
the solvents and other shit in
the oil
decimation: well, a
turbine can burn anything. but it's
true
that if you are burning raw crude it will foul your
turbine and require much more maintenance
mircea_popescu: in any case
the generality comes at an efficiency cost.