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decimation: the 'meaning of money' seems
to have a scale from 'tool
to settle private debts'
to 'note from stalin'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Amex is fine.
They partnered with Walmart for poor people ATM cards
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not even
that, it's just...
the *meaning* of money changes.
decimation: because 'must grow big
to get a seat at
the
table where
they hand out bezzlars'
decimation: yes,
the us
today is more-or-less dominated by centralized megabusiness
mircea_popescu: but in any case, however you explain it on
the "micro" basis : competition and central control are mutually contradictory. much like anabolic and catabolic processes.
mircea_popescu: in another perspective, qe is an abdication of monetarty sovereignty. sovereignity is a fixed sum, so it just moves in other parts of
the system - monopolies form.
mircea_popescu: the worst effect is
that everything forms monopolies. in a physics intuitive approach, what QE does is basically increase
the superficial
tension.
this forces bubbles
to merge.
mircea_popescu: the obvious effect of "keynesian" money pumping is bubbles, but
that's not
the worst effect.
punkman: (I'll mention again
that if you let VerifySignature run on all
tx's, it blows up much sooner
than block 168000)
punkman: could just keep
the checkpoint stuff
though, and not verify all
the ecdsa signatures.
assbot: Logged on 14-02-2015 00:20:24; BingoBoingo: punkman: if we replace openssl with libressl or whatever, how do we verify all
the buggy data generated by 7 different openssl versions? << For
the
time being... empirically.
There a set with six year's worth a data
to
test against by syncing.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 22:07:08; mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco a deal (pays
them)
to force a large percentage of
the upper-crust customer-base
to have an amex card in
their wallet << pretty much how
that racket goes yes.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 22:07:08; mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco a deal (pays
them)
to force a large percentage of
the upper-crust customer-base
to have an amex card in
their wallet << pretty much how
that racket goes yes.
ben_vulpes: there's always something silly happening in
the backwaters
decimation: ben_vulpes: did
they
try
to send you
to jail?
ben_vulpes: i got a reckless driving charge one
time.
decimation: the execution might not be
there
though
decimation: asciilifeform: I
think
they have
the nub of a good idea, having all
the steps in manufacturing clearly brought out in one spot
decimation: thestringpuller: in VA if you are speeding 15 mph over
the limit it can be considered 'wreckless'
thestringpuller: decimation: isn't
there a super speeder law in VA and MD because people drive so
terribly in DC?
decimation: it will be interesting
to see if
this 'service' continues
to exist for a period of
time, and if so, how it matures
decimation: yes
their house passive selection is very limited
decimation: nor a catalog of parts
that 'can be had for a price'
decimation: yes, I couldn't find any mention of
the costs of 'non-house' parts
ben_vulpes: <herbijudlestoids> [] deployment
tools, config mgmt, automated service discovery etc << /me is
tres jelly
decimation: asciilifeform: if
they are
truly able
to deliver at
the prices
they quote on
the 'demo', it seems likely
that
they are 'debt funding'
decimation: I suspect
they are using one of
those 'ink jet' solder paste printers
decimation: apparently
the kicad-pcb.org page is dead
decimation: pony-farts would be a fairly good way of navigating
the dc
traffic jams
decimation: I'm not sure how
they 'make it up on volume' if
they have
to hand place parts on
the whole
thing
decimation: supposedly
the macrolabs people 'make
the economics work' by queuing up all
the jobs onto a giant panel
decimation: I guess because
they can't write an
http uploader
that works?
decimation: they promise
that
they won't mistreat your data
decimation: asciilifeform: hehe yeah I wondered when you were
to walk into
that
decimation: because apparently all
their new 'features' are in
the new 'unstable
testing' version
decimation: asciilifeform: I find kicad amusing - when you go
to download
they have a little description begging not
to download
the 'old stable' version
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so do mine. but at least a) i actually fuck
them and b) i don't
take
them without a significant prior investment from other people.
decimation: my understanding is
that you are required
to manually place
the parts
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stop wasting your hours! you're a process man, you belong
to s.nsa now!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes :
take
the bright side of life. "not liking kids is not a valid reason
to not have any - you'll be stuck with some anyway."
decimation: asciilifeform: lol
thanks for jumping on
that
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, if one doesn't have
the culture
to know
that glob's a verb,
the above is also "a very bad argument" .and so on.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, my "which of course is
the very point" above is also "not very clear", in
the sense
that if one isn't particularly bright,
the recursion of "what dk says is
that people
think
they're better
than
they are" is not immediately glob'd into
the expression.
mircea_popescu: your average doobie, with a mediocre college degree and an ESL culture mostly geared
towards ingested summaries is perfectly unable
to decode metaphor or recognise complex enough patterns and fill in
the gaps.
this
to him is frustrating, and
the frustration is predictably resolved by lashing out (hey, it's
the guy fault for using rferences i have
to google and math i don't grok!11). in no way better
than a clinical mor
decimation: it's like watching a cripple
trip on a bump, adjacent
to which is a sign
that says "attention cripples: do not
trip on
this bump"
ben_vulpes: <Adlai> it's funny/sad how parenting reverses over
time << oh
this is great news you mean i have
to
take care of both ends? great.
mircea_popescu: but in fact,
the moderately stupid are just as handicapped understanding why
they aren't smarter as very smart people are, understanding
THE SAME
THING (ie, why
they aren't smarter).
mircea_popescu: people
thinkg
that effect only shows up in idiots, and so not in
them. which of course is
the very point.
decimation: mircea_popescu:
that's a lulzy exchange.
the doctor_why_bother guy is a living example of 'he misses
the forest for
the
tiny sapling'
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> srsly, whoever asked
that, read
the damn
thing << for
those blessedly uncontaminated with "c machine" constructs, it's hard
to
tell where
the "c++" leaves off and
the "boost" begins. it's clear
that it's used in every for loop (c++ doesn't have iteration constructs?!), but
the question if you didn't read closely enough was "why bother?" not "should one?"