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nubbins`: there are plenty of people who would do
this for like 5 bucks a month
thestringpuller: so is
the bitcoin incentive program going
to scale into "If you upgrade
to hard fork, we'll incentivize you *wink wink* ?!?"
thestringpuller: Really needs
to be a drinking game for
these
things where you
take a shot everytime someone uses a buzz word.
thestringpuller: How is Apple making so much money? Does everyone use macs
these days?
☟︎ nubbins`: dat single backspace
to erase
two-char number ;/
mircea_popescu: jurov: well,
there is a
torrent published for bootstrap.dat. atm only > 0.9 supports it << are we desperate for old style blockchains ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: let's put a pin in
this for down
the road << you're keeping screenshots aren't you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: nubbins`: incentive program <<
this is what makes zero sense.
the buggers have infinite fiat budget, and
to
their soldiers,
they offer... pocket change << you have
to understand
the extrmely problematic nature of infinite budget. suppose you were
trying
to fly an aeroplane
that had infinite
thrust.
nubbins`: (incidentally,
the volca sample receives OS updates as modulated audio via a 3.5mm stereo jack)
mircea_popescu: in any case, i guess
they don't manage in however many posts
to get
to addressing
the key point of "who pays davis' salary
these days".
nubbins`: i had coffee and
two homemade cookies
mircea_popescu: so im having
the 2nd breakfast of
the day. like
the previous one,
this one also consists of milk and apple pie.
davout: thestringpuller:
the idea of
timestamping stuff in
the blockchain is as old as bitcoin
jurov: and when
the
torent is updated, it is only appended
to
jurov: but
the bootstrap file itself is pretty harmless. just blocks, nothing else
jurov: well,
there is a
torrent published for bootstrap.dat. atm only > 0.9 supports it
nubbins`: 5
tabs of info about
tunneling diodes... "oh, wait, i was reading an article"
nubbins`: this orlov guy is fun
to read, but JESUS does it ever send me on
tangents
nubbins`: i guess my pogoplug will arrive
this week?
nubbins`: imaigne manually patching .5.3 for
two days,
then downloading
the blockchain off a random
torrent
nubbins`: download your Genuine .Foundation Blockchain
today
nubbins`: not really smooth sailing for any definition
thereof, but it's a start
nubbins`: leave
the stale one around for a week
to let existing peers finish
nubbins`: throw a fresh
torrent up weekly
nubbins`: .foundation
torrent might work, but it'd be janky
nubbins`: maybe a better use of funds
than sending hand-printed posters
to slum
tenants in middle america
☟︎ nubbins`: let's put a pin in
this for down
the road
nubbins`: are you
talking about
the .foundation now? XD
nubbins`: jurov oh! like
those cd replicators
PeterL: ;; later
tell mircea_popescu is
there no report for F.DERP for january?
jurov: it comes with robot
to manipulate
these floppies
nubbins`: i can't imagine anywhere in
the world having
the capacity or desire
to replicate 4k floppies at a
time
nubbins`: Parking brake? But I'm not in
the car anymore!
nubbins`: so what if
the garbage will catch fire after i
throw a lit cigarette in? i'm already on my way out of
the building.
nubbins`: 100 years?
that's like forever
thestringpuller: love
these pseudo arguments. better entertainment
than
television
thestringpuller: "Yes, and it reaches
this point over 100 years from now." << i don't like
to
think of
the future cause i'll be dead, let my children deal with
the problem.
assbot: Apple Has 93% of Mobile Profits; 650M Users by 2018, Says Canaccord -
Tech
Trader Daily - Barrons.com ... (
http://bit.ly/1CPQdBP )
mircea_popescu: "I was
told
that
this sample set was
too small so I performed
the same
test over four
to five years until I reached
the sample size of 10,000 in
total split into
tranches of 100. Every
time
the answer effectively remained
the same. All
the samples lie between a 94% bias and a 100% bias."
mircea_popescu: "I originally performed
this
test 5
times and found approximately a 95% skew" << :D
mircea_popescu: Even among losers,
there’s hierarchy :
the better ones leave,
the scum of
the scum sticks around."
mircea_popescu: If only more people in your unfortunate situation had
the intellectual honesty
to look
their failure in
the eye and
take
the jump,
the world would be a much better place.
mircea_popescu: Congrats for figuring it out, and doing
the right
thing.
punkman: lolwut "The reason for my death is simple. I have concluded
that in
the realm of dating and relationships
the primary characteristics required for men are as follows."
mircea_popescu: they're down
to food bloggers now ? no further bankers left ?
mircea_popescu: unrelated :
Teacher explains superlatives,
then has children give examples. Little Johhny : Big, bigger, biggest. Little Sammy : Hard, harder, hardest.
mircea_popescu: it is incontrovertible fact
that most people alive
today will have cost more
than
they were worth by
the
time
they die, and
this by orders of magnitude.
mircea_popescu: dealing with
the after effects of having bought
them, however, different story.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> doesn't
take much
to feed
them <<
this is
true. cigarettes also don't
take much
to buy.
mircea_popescu: chetty
they won't be roads i imagine, more like hovercraft pads.
chetty: actually no need
to straighten
the roads, just do away with
them
mircea_popescu: very
true. however, you don't HAVE
to fight a war
to suit
the artisan.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "artisan can do
things cnc mill can not"
CoraCrisT: imagine a waste disposal
team made of robots , in chemical situations, etc :)