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ben_vulpes: lol nowhere near as expensive as
their payloads are valuable.
ben_vulpes: but do share your design envelope, i'm very curious what sorts of requirements you're considering
that require some crazy one-shot battery.
ben_vulpes: if it needs
to go
that far, put an ice on it.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: if
the
thing's reasonably robust, a parabolic delivery
trajectory should suffice.
ben_vulpes giving
the whole armsmithing game away for some reason
thestringpuller: i
thought other big cost in rocket was d00ds in black suits showin' up and shuttin down
the studio
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 18:16:06; mircea_popescu: in any case, strategically speaking, it will be a lot easier, cheaper and blood-economical
to unseat
the fiat atrocity supporting
the welfare state by destroying
the "industrial" paradigm.
ben_vulpes: the *real* value
though, is in
the strategist given free reign
to be creative.
ben_vulpes: those who do in
these parts - aren't interested in novel strategies or applications of commodity
technology
ben_vulpes: anyways, armsmithing for
the next engagements is
terribly interesting and entirely impossible
to do from where i am.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: well yes, improvements in performance and reductions in cost exercises for not even
terribly alert reader.
ben_vulpes: there is a reason i call
this kind of document
torture.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> very basic maths << so much so
that even i did
them in 'uni'
cazalla: mircea_popescu, for sake of
thestringpuller and mine private conversation, have you ever bedded a north korean woman?
mircea_popescu: not so
that random redditard can buy his porn for 0 fees.
mircea_popescu: well...
this is why : so
this sort of shit stops washing.
mircea_popescu: so some derp on reddit wanted
to know "why do we even want
to kill banks
then" in
the blockchain subversion debate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform notice how none of
the coverage included a "this C round utterly dilutes naive investors from
the previous B and A rounds"
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 00:08:26; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo:
the buggers'
traditional defense is
to pretend
that
the event was a non-event - or, if
this is impractical,
to continue living in an imaginary world where
they 'scooped'
the story first, and all of
the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: we also know undead are more "effective" when
there are lots of
them.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller
the only "people involved" by now are horowitz and
the us fed.
mircea_popescu: kinda win-win situation, if
they
try
to rescue
the scam foundation
they will fail, if
they don't you know we scare
them.
mircea_popescu: im moreover curious if
they're going
to actually
try and rescue
the scam foundation or just make a new and "real" one.
mircea_popescu: somewhat mirroring
the "mpex is worth a billion dollars ?!?!?!"
thing.
mircea_popescu: cazalla
the "usg mpex" comment was chiefly because
there's no conceivable need a webwallet operator could have for even 1mn.
mircea_popescu: seems improbable even
that many actually sent
the ridoinculous "kyc" paperwork.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally
that must be a
typo, 1.9mn users 2.1mn accounts. more like 190k.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why you imagine
the userbase is important in
this discussion.
thestringpuller: this doesn't mean
the customer base is anything other
than homo redditicus
mircea_popescu: well, horowitz and
the rest of
the policy vehicles are on board, so.
thestringpuller: although coinbase is a part of
the waterfall only derps utilize it.
cazalla: i
thought it was a cardinal sin for it
to be called anything other
than MPEx? :P
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu:
they're
trying for a usg mpex. << More like Reddit MPEX
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah i
think it was bb
that said we'd be lucky
to
turn 1% of it into reg readers
mircea_popescu: basically,
they're
trying for a usg mpex. which... hey, fine, have fun
trying.
jurov: oh and
thx for shedding
the light on d.cbse
mircea_popescu: obv
this is just napkin calcs, a definitive version'd come out once
that unicorn stomps its foot.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the utter chilling of d.*
trade past while shows kinda plainly where
that ship's going, imo.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, if coinbase opens for a mkt cap of 250mn in
two years (accounting for inflation, basically)...
mircea_popescu: jurov as an example, if someone bought 100 shares on mpex
today at
the 0.239 price paying 23.9 btc, he would control (if memory serves) 1% of
the 1% f.derp stake in
the origial coinbase.
that'd entitle him
to 0.01% of
the value of 50/350 parts in
the coinbase ipo, which would come
to
mircea_popescu: at
that point,
the coinbase listing has actually been a net loss for d.cbse holders.
mircea_popescu: suppose in 2020 coinbase lists on nyse, 100mn shares, and
they go for 50 bux each.
that's 5 bn.