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mircea_popescu: fluffypony you didn't just draw that up
ThickAsThieves: it's not that i dont think they "might" make gen3 or whatever
skinnkavaj: Its just a matter of time
mircea_popescu: and you're mostly in the 2nd class.
mircea_popescu: yes well, the point being that we sometimes get what we want, and sometimes don't get what we want.
skinnkavaj: They clearly have the competence
skinnkavaj: Why do you not think the could manage to produce a 3gen chip
skinnkavaj: I want to hear what ThickAsThieves has to say
mircea_popescu: do you get the idea or do you need a 2nd dunking ?
ThickAsThieves: skinnkavaj if you want voice again you'll need to register with gribble, wot, assbot and get a rep
mircea_popescu: i think it's british english.
mircea_popescu: im thinking of opening a vlog and i think that'd be a great first episode.
skinnkavaj: I don't see why they couldn't make better chips than before
ThickAsThieves: on track by what measure?
skinnkavaj: ThickAsThieves: According to latest questions it seems that they are on track on delivering 102 petahash to the network in 3 months
mircea_popescu: moving your virtual office from us to uk to avoid the impending doom is also not NORMAL
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves but we're approaching three.
ThickAsThieves: pending for 1 year is normal i'm told
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: it could be pending i guess << wait, pending for two years ? heh.
ThickAsThieves: which menifested in things like
ThickAsThieves: so they probably began segmenting their business out of that situation
ThickAsThieves: then had to deal with pissant forum investors
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that afaik friedcat was in no sense an engineer, just a pr for a team, and also afaik she said so mul;tiple times.
ThickAsThieves: FC and the crew made millions on millions last year
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj on the strength of that answer i humbly submit that perhaps you did not actually read the link.
skinnkavaj: mircea_popescu: Read your link, ok so they made some mistakes with exchanges.. But I couldn't care less about that, what matters is that friedcat seems to be a really good asic engineer
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: lead in with the published ones and then veer off investigatory journalizt style << yeah, but then they'll be "offended" and not answer anyway
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: so they can prepare bullshit nonanswers? << once you sent the q's privately, they can already do that.
ThickAsThieves: blood in the steets is blood on your hands
mircea_popescu: what's this "buy stocks when everyone is selling them" strat netted you so far ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Apparently I am a member of the BTCFundnation after all <<< ahahaha epic
skinnkavaj: I love to buy stocks when everyone is selling them ☟︎
mircea_popescu: he just wasted half a year of his life to make sure.
ozbot: The analysis of a failure : Asicminer pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/the-analysis-of-a-failure-asicminer/ << there it is skinnkavaj
ThickAsThieves: go add up those fees over the lifetime
skinnkavaj: But why? Didn't they make a you some money with 5% management fee?
ThickAsThieves: leaving the board was automatic once i no longer represented 5000 shares
ThickAsThieves: technically ditching the AM-PTs is what i did
mircea_popescu: "It can classified us a Market player with higher audience as the others, and we understand that some jealous people do not see this with many pleasure." <<< o you log, that has such marvels & many pleasure in it!
mircea_popescu: maybe you should ask them.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "Ken what is your 3 month plan" << i wonder if that counts as mid term or long term.
fluffypony: my thoughts exactly
fluffypony: and the shipping options have shipping timelines on each option
fluffypony: which we do, they have to choose a shipping option during checkout (or when viewing their cart)
ThickAsThieves: or est ship time
fluffypony: which apparently implies you are in the US of A
fluffypony: but we have a .com and the default currency is USD
ThickAsThieves: and solicit donations without noting their ability to be tax deductible
ThickAsThieves: but it's a bit unethical to paint yourself as an np
ThickAsThieves: i like how they hint at being a nonprofit through the wording in their letters and bylaws
fluffypony: lead in with the published ones and then veer off investigatory journalizt style
fluffypony: and corner them with the actual questions
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: so then publish open questions that you won't ask
ThickAsThieves: so they can prepare bullshit nonanswers?
chetty: ThickAsThieves, maybe publish them as open questions?
ThickAsThieves: their lawyer never responded to my email asking about their nonprofit status
ThickAsThieves: so might be a great way for me to ask questions
ThickAsThieves: however they are having their annual meeting in Amsterdam too
ThickAsThieves: but but i think might need to opt-in first
ThickAsThieves: Apparently I am a member of the BTCFundnation after all
ThickAsThieves: "We’re so delighted to be able to offer a complimentary annual individual membership to the foundation for all registered attendees."
fluffypony: ;;later tell benkay not sure if this relevant at all to what you guys are encountering wrt the 4096 bit entropy problem - https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/602f88552b64
fluffypony: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://i.imgur.com/RXH4FOQ.jpg
davout: bounce: if you're referring to karpy i believe he fattened there
bounce: the fat frenchman went to japan because of the engrish, maybe?
davout: "It can classified us a Market player with higher audience as the others, and we understand that some jealous people do not see this with many pleasure."
fluffypony: ;;later tell ThickAsThieves dat rap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FSla2-yV0 (original without the beat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM7ITjpyed4&feature=youtu.be&t=1m46s )
benkay: jurov are you off for the weekend again?
fluffypony: dat forward thinking
fluffypony: "Tell me what the bitcoin price will be in 3 months and I will tell you."
fluffypony: "Ken what is your 3 month plan for this company? How are you going to make us money with a static data centre and single figure miner sales?"
artifexd: ;;later tell mod6 It looks like pitythepool has the current network hashrate in their json stats. I don't know the source or how it is calculated, but it may be easier for you to grab it from there than calculate it. Less accurate, but easier.
decimation: I suspect that they still make them on big-old dies
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princessnell: lol that was sarcasm
decimation: it's not racist to mock justice thomas after all
princessnell: why must they drag down yet another strong woman of color?
decimation: ah well that explains things then
princessnell: it was a university that disinvited her to speak
decimation: apparently you are only allowed to be on the board of a business if you are sufficiently socialist
princessnell: the dropbox ceo stood his ground i think
mircea_popescu: anyway, tis all for me. later.
decimation: as if it were controversial that some gov't bigwig were cashing out in industry
decimation: I thought they dropped her after the "controversy"
gribble: Protests Continue Against Dropbox After Appointment of ... - Bits: <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/protests-continue-against-dropbox-after-appointing-condoleezza-rice-to-board/>; Dropbox Service: <https://dropbox.rice.edu/>; Dropbox users are angry that NSA-loving Condoleezza Rice has ...: <http://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2014/04/dropbox-users-are-angry-nsa- (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: decimation that'd be it then.
decimation: donno. la wik says he's polishing the dropbox turd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum
mircea_popescu: more like a watchmaking angle tho
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they were actually sort-of trying to get the mechanical calculator going
asciilifeform: imagine if 'la serenissima', old venice, had... a computer. what part of what we put up with, would they tolerate.
decimation: there is wisdom in this
mircea_popescu: decimation i'm just glad im not the only one aware of the damned thing.
asciilifeform: and whether the machine can be understood
decimation: if Guido Van Rossum can be ignored by everyone, how much easier would it be to ignore the bitcoin devs?
asciilifeform: perhaps after 'mad max', when a computer is no longer a cheap widget - but a _place_ - like the old church organs - people will give a fuck whether they work correctly
decimation: yeah mircea, I think you can find a parallel in bitcoin :)
asciilifeform: 'but they say i'm mad'
asciilifeform: perhaps the only future.
mircea_popescu: decimation> 5 years later no one has jumped << wait, the core devs of python, nobody gave a shit about them ?!