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mircea_popescu: bitesak anyway, for now the solution is to try again in a few minutes siort of thing
mircea_popescu: it's been having trouble keeping up.
nubbins`: now that's a collection
davout: pankkake: let's discuss a couple targets, i needed a new door anyway
nubbins`: after hanging up and checking out their website, i realize they sell this obscure ink remover we've been trying to track down for weeks
nubbins`: totally not related to the work we do at all, but w/e
nubbins`: "ok well i guess someone wanted the account, go ahead and set us up"
nubbins`: somehow they have all our info
nubbins`: no idea who they are or what they sell
nubbins`: "hey, you were trying to set up a wholesale acct with us?"
nubbins`: lel, just got off the phone with a supplier
Vexual: The author states that a nanocrystalline material is essentially a new type of diamond film whose properties are largely determined by the bonding of the carbons within grain boundaries.
pankkake: but then I'll end up in prison even with no actual damage done
pankkake: sometimes the stupidity around it makes me want to demonstrate
pankkake: doing a terrorist attack is incredibly cheap and easy
benkay: the cackling fat black woman is my favorite part of the video
mircea_popescu: i'll give 2:! odds the guy doesn't care.
ozbot: Video Of White Supremacist Learning He Is 14 Percent Black May Be The Best Thing Ever
benkay: and totally distracted baby me from the argentinean crises
mircea_popescu: even accounting for the 300% obamainflation, that's still a small enough sum that it can be obtained by selling a couipla cars.
mircea_popescu: also for the record, the 9/11 "operation" cost something like 20k if memory serves.
mircea_popescu: scheier totally doesn't work for the usg.
ozbot: Schneier on Security: Bizarre Online Gambling Movie-Plot Threat
pankkake: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/bizarre_online.html gambling is now terrorism!
Vexual: they might have used their own gpus
benkay: as opposed to hemistry
Vexual: the navy and the doe are on the patent, but it mainly mentions flat panel tvs as an application, no actual mention of fel
mircea_popescu: i thought folding mostly has to do with protein configurations
Vexual: the patenet from stanford where pando labvs is, they would have modeled many electron configs on a system such as that
mircea_popescu: Vexual what's the connction to folding@home ?!
nubbins`: afaik goldstar was the only other company to actually take up the offer
nubbins`: yeah, i believe panasonic licensed the technology
nubbins`: i think goldstar, which ended up being swallowed up into the G of LG, made a 3do system at one point
nubbins`: now there's a name from the past
ozbot: Obama, getting crushed in the marketplace pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
Vexual: id think those new 4k panels will put out a bit of heat
Vexual: that diamondoid patent is funny, apparently the navy is interested in making flat panel tvs
benkay: one might munge that into a rectenna
Vexual: i wonder if thats in the new laser canon?
Vexual: The Government has certain rights in this invention. Support was also provided under NSF award MRI-R2 “Acquisition of a Hybrid CPU/GPU and Visualization Cluster for Multidisciplinary Studies in Transport Physics with Uncertainty Quantification.”
BingoBoingo: I hear there are quite a few in -otc and -dev
benkay: let's go track down an aspie
ozbot: Patents by Assignee The Board of Trustees of the
benkay: but the incentivized humans may have pulled a trick or two while the nerds were stroking
benkay: brute forcing reality fails on the grounds that reality moves way fucking fast and has for a long time
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the kulaks, yeah.
ThickAsThieves: sabotaged by insider tea partiers ofc
mircea_popescu: with such a great launch they should be ipoing that shit
mircea_popescu: sooo, six weeks in, obama's thing has managed 50k signups
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not that I'm aware of yet. From what I understand folding proteins is sort of the raw brute force work that happens many steps before useful science. Kind of like guessing nonces... Maybe mining is a decent comparison.
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Vexual: and how does one know theyre not folding airbourne aids?
Vexual: they should give shares on future patents, and watch the computing power go up
mircea_popescu: incidentally, since it's a topic. i've not much followed it, but i know folding@home has been going for a few years
BingoBoingo: Vanitygening 1BitcoinEater is probably the Bitcoin equivalent of folding at home
jurov: until someone sends you to 1BitcoinEater
Vexual: perhaps watching the chain grow will present some eureka moment where we find that life on earth is just a currency invesnted by some cosmic satioshi eons before
Vexual: perhaps the blockchain will cure cancer
mircea_popescu: not actually as simple as the blockchain, which is why probably not asic-able.
mircea_popescu: yeah, folding is also kind of simple to formulate.
jurov: imho most directly comparable thing is Folding@Home
mircea_popescu: jurov it just depends on what exactly you're calculating :) the advantage of hashing is that the forumulation is simple.
Vexual: all of them with their cousins id that doesnt say tradefortress
ThickAsThieves: well maybe ASICMINER gets into that type of thing one day and we can indirectly claim dogooderhood
Vexual: no, id get 100,100 delivered and wouldn't be able to pay and i wouldent want them anyway
mircea_popescu: i wonder if anyone realises all the computation that went into the blockchain so far could have probably cured cancer.
jurov: Vexual: you're gonna put up "WANTED: chinese looking, indetifies himself as TF. 10BTC reward" posters over sydney?
mircea_popescu: gently up the graph
mircea_popescu: rev rev rev the miner
ThickAsThieves: back on track
ThickAsThieves: and i'm still skeptical on that cointerra one
jurov: lol seems the traffic from trilema took cstocks down :D
jurov: mircea_popescu:btw you know the same thing as dragontales happened before with fidor bank?
ThickAsThieves: my dentist has heard of bitcoin, "it's all over the news" he says
mircea_popescu: actually this suggests a bet.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is so totally going to 500... all these lolz support it.
ThickAsThieves: so TradeFortress made The Verge
mircea_popescu: btw, how about that dragons tale ipo.
ThickAsThieves: dont forget the plastic bitcoin
mircea_popescu: maybe this magazine should come as a collection of presentation sheets attachjed to a slinky.
mircea_popescu: now if the convention crowd only read...
ThickAsThieves: who's the target audience?
mircea_popescu: no but there was this acrimonious split earlier, when vladimir guy got ousted by the coffee gofer.
truffles: at least they can write well
mircea_popescu: that was kinda always the case iirc.
ThickAsThieves: it seems to be more of an outlet for the writers to try and look like they know whats up about stuff
mircea_popescu: did the romanian guy that stole it from buterin and co to "sell" it to bitpay&co not run with it yet ?!
mircea_popescu: im surprised that thingstill exists
mircea_popescu: and the word magazine
ThickAsThieves: remove the word bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: misleading title
pankkake: oh, tumblr :/ where penetration is rape
mircea_popescu: and with that i'm done with my current review of gender-related-retardation, my sides hurt.
mircea_popescu: sort of shit is enough to make you want to be a mra.
mircea_popescu: every single definition on the first page is beyond butthurt.
mircea_popescu: haha this kicks ass.
mircea_popescu: the less intelligent people can follow their nonsense, and even better, the less intelligent people can be bothered to follow their nonsense, the better chance of still being around in a year feminists have.
mircea_popescu: part of this insulation is inventing words all the time. thus shitlord and douchecanoe and fireperson and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i'm mostly writing these as they happen because in like two centuries they will be worth at least 1 btc each.