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mircea_popescu: wtf does
this work when
the "value" given away isn't even worth anything.
mircea_popescu: pretty great. ima save five gallons of
twitter for a few years ?
mircea_popescu: "Anyone who plans
to waste
the shareholders' money can undercut
the competition.
The easiest
thing in
the world is
to charge
too little, it is just as easy as spending
too much of other people's money. Customers will flock
to
those who do because
they are giving away some, if not all, of
the value for free. Somebody may even pick up
the underpriced goods and sell
them at a profit when
the stupid company ceases
to ex
rithm: that shitexpress blog post gets my vote for blog post of
the year
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> aka 'structured asic' <<<
this was
true last year. meanwhile
tho... look at
the hash per power figures.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 366.78, Best ask: 367.01, Bid-ask spread: 0.23000, Last
trade: 367.01, 24 hour volume: 8639.23100628, 24 hour low: 365.25, 24 hour high: 377.5, 24 hour vwap: 369.680083909
fluffypony: 'Such a move baffled
the veteran bankruptcy judge, Dennis Montali. "What
troubled me was
to read
that Mr. Ochoa will allow
the debtor
to buy mining boards?" he said from
the bench. "This is like a patient
that is going
to die from
three different
things and now you're suggesting a fourth surgery," he added. "Now
they want
to do a hip
transplant? Why?"'
mats: TSLA
tumbles another 4%
adlai just got approval
to work in lisp
assbot: This is
the largest investment in a BTC company
to date.
http://t.co/MZl7B4Nj9F /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets /Mircea_Popescu /hashtag/MPEx?src=hash
mircea_popescu: i could of course be entirely wrong, maybe he's really a woman and needs special encouragement
to "participate".
mircea_popescu: because
the sort of people who "invented it all 18 years ago"
tend (in my experience at least)
to also be
the sort
that won't have
their venues limited by kids with fiddy routers.
mircea_popescu: but
the noob was an online expert. he'll figure it out.
mircea_popescu: seems
to me more like discussing @ cavalry officer's mess all about how
there's a bunch of reeds on a riverside "free for
the
taking"
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, so
through
this or any other million ways one so inclined could create a ddos network. ok, so ?
ben_vulpes: and in what sense does redirecting a ddos actually lead
to a rotting corpse?
mircea_popescu: let 'em figure it out.
the stuff's
there,
they may, eventually
they will, who cares.
mircea_popescu: i wish
to see
the noob
that does
that, rather
than coming in here
trying
to derp about how "they did it 18 years ago"
mircea_popescu: * BitLuckInfo has quit (Ping
timeout: 246 seconds) << you know
this makes me feel a lot better about giving out voice / ratings
to noobs.
mircea_popescu: whereas
the chieftain fathers 50% of
the actual offspring on a regular basis.
mircea_popescu: by
this
token a discussion of primitive village demographics will center on
the visible males
mircea_popescu: reflect
that it's
too bad we gave anyone over 40
the vote" <<< for what it's worth,
this is a woesome misrepresentation of
the male. it's
the beta male fighing for cotnrol, about as relevant in
the discussion as
the fat female fighting for reproductive equality.
ben_vulpes: re bug parts and rice have y'all heard about
the cockroach protein farms in china?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ^ also see first note
there, oddly on point.
mircea_popescu: all people in prison - prisoners. whether "guilty" or "innocent". all
those in
the insane asylum - insane.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless,
the entire content of chumpatron X is going
to be x.
mircea_popescu: so. obviously for
the needs of your own bed you may employ whatever perverse criteria.
mircea_popescu: here's
the
thing : bug parts are functionally identical
to rice,
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> more of a 'steer is not functionally identical
to a cow' sort of
thing here. << WHen collected for meat it is
mircea_popescu: if i'm sending it
to
the mcdonalds factory it might be.
mircea_popescu: plurisemy and syntactico-lexical ambiguity are
the actual reasons language is an adequate medium of
thought,
mircea_popescu: but in
this line of
thinking you're baking in ulterior considerations into an anterior branch of
the
thought
tree.