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mircea_popescu: well yes, it varies on
the chip,
tyhe fab, who's doing it etc.
mircea_popescu: one wafer is usually a reasonable way
to go about
test chips, but depends how many chips you cut
to
the wafer.
kleeck: Is it in
the hundreds?
thousands?
kleeck: Anyone here know what a ball park for how many chips
to expect in a "Test batch"?
bob____: dexX7: yeah,
the market maker bot moves
the price often
bob____: someday i will internalize how
that works. so on excercise he will pay 1btc and get strike/spot.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 130.69702147 BTC
to 500`000`000 shares, 26 satoshi per share
nubbins`: shrug, pretty sure
they came
to a mutual agreement
mircea_popescu: he can settle out of court and
that way i don't have
to go
through discovery.
nubbins`: well, yes. smart guy, he rented out part of his building
to a laundromat and captures
their waste heat
to keep
the grow areas warm
smickles: sounds like an easy
transition
nubbins`: there's a guy here in my
town
that runs a massive hydroponic lettuce operation, i wonder if he's been eyeing
these new regulations
nubbins`: glossing over
the fact
that
the majority of adult canadians have, at some point in
their lives, smoked pot
nubbins`: "this is okay for sick people
to smoke, but if healthy people smoke it,
terrible
things will happen"
nubbins`: it's even more bizarre when you consider
that
there's a legal medical marijuana industry in canada
nubbins`: rhetoric aside,
that's exactly what it is
Namworld: You dislike
the government.
That's an unauthorized mental state
that leads
to chaos. stop right
this instant lest you want
to be corrected with
these correctional instruments.
nubbins`: the free piece of shit dictionary
that anyone can edit
nubbins`: they really weren't joking with
the "do not
take with alcohol" sticker on
the bottle
nubbins`: "why are my hands vibrating?" followed by "and my arms", followed a few minutes later by "oh fuck now it's in my face, i need
to lie down"
nubbins`: try
taking altitude-sickness drugs and having a beer.
nubbins`: of course, whenever full legalization comes around,
there will already be a massive, massive legal growing industry already in place
bob____: summer in
the northern hemisphere or southern?
mircea_popescu: they don't have a job anyway, might as well live somwehre da police ain't husslin
them for pot.
mircea_popescu: it will be 5mn or some shit. ppl will move
to canada just for
this.
nubbins`: 450,000 med pot users in canada by 2024.
that's billions in revenue every year even at bargain-basement prices
ozbot: Medical marijuana spinoff firms look
to cash in on new rules - Canada - CBC News
mircea_popescu: then school starts, another year of
toil, summer dreams and hopes dashed on
the jagged shore of reality
mircea_popescu: kids get all excited in may, invest
their allowance, dream about how
they'll be rich "in
the future" = next week, and how
they'll start a family with beck
tatcher down
the aisle
mircea_popescu: every summer
to date
there was a hot company
that passed s.mpoe
nubbins`: i
think
the
take-away is
that mp == goat
ozbot: Bitcoin
TOP-500 Richest
nubbins`: consider
the diagram suitably amended
nubbins`: the area where all 3 interesect is called "paid work
terms"
nubbins`: a bit cheeky, maybe, but you get
the idea
ozbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
nubbins`: y'know, you could draw a venn diagram with
those 3 groups and have a sizable common area in
the middle
mircea_popescu: this entire "not done by govt = scam" angle won't be hard
to push
mircea_popescu: as far as government employees, people on
the government dole and unemployable youths are concerned,
nubbins`: rather
than explain, i just said "yes"
nubbins`: i mentioned
to a friend a few months ago
that i made a bunch of money buying and selling btc-denominated securities. a couple of days later, he says "did you ever make any more money with
that scam after?"
smickles: i usually make a profit when it
tanks
kleeck: It's not
tanking now, smickles.
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 210.10579, Best ask: 212.00000, Bid-ask spread: 1.89421, Last
trade: 210.08073, 24 hour volume: 7707.41836602, 24 hour low: 204.00000, 24 hour high: 214.47587, 24 hour vwap: 208.55587
kleeck: "Hey man, sorry about your CrimeCoin
tanking.
Tough luck."
kleeck: When my friends are
trolling me
they call Bitcoin "CrimeCoin" and it's usually after something like
the
Trendon Shavers arrest, or Silkroad bust.
mircea_popescu: they made
the proposition
that
the value of something can rest on sexual favours a bannable offence
kleeck: "It's backed by
the mouths, cocks, and vajayjays of
THE PEOPLE you fascist sluts!"
smickles: mircea_popescu: are you against
the goons in eve
then?
mircea_popescu: apparently sa people can't stand
the idea of working for a living.
mircea_popescu: you know, a year ago when
the something awful muppets were all "o no, bitcoins have no value"
mircea_popescu: if it cost
the same in all countries i'd buy a million handpicked chicks and go start a new country where
the bj is 10x.
kleeck: "Um excuse me, boy!
That's a BJcoin,
this is going
to cost an AnalCoin!"
kleeck: How cool would it be
to have universal prices for sexual favors. No matter
the country, one BJCoin would cover it. Oh, colored coins, you cannot come soon enough!
smickles: total receive at
the bj-wanter
nubbins`: or at
the very least, a masturcoin
kleeck: Someone give
that dude a BJCoin.
nubbins`: mostly just a discussion of
the melvins
mircea_popescu: well
this log is
too much
to read. i hope i didn't miss anything good.
mircea_popescu: Scrat: why do
they call it world series? only murrica is playing << lol. i once saw briefly on
the highway
this ad "World Famous X. Best in North Carolina!"
nubbins`: i
think
there is a rhyming dictionary
nubbins`: prof asks one of
the 5
to explain what a hagging is
nubbins`: i did a folklore course (just one!) in university when we discussed
this
smickles: it's great customer service
tho :D
nubbins`: any of you guys heard of
the "old hag" lore?
smickles: oh snap,
this site just delivered on zero confirms from a
tx
that was sent from a client 4 weeks out of sync
nubbins`: pretty sure
there's a halloween joke in
there somewhere
nubbins`: i, for one, welcome
this new fake ruiu
mircea_popescu: i find it very difficult
to grasp
that ruiu suddenly has nobody
to
turn
to.
the REAL ruiu
that is.
mod6: (09:54) < asciilifeform> a logic analyzer isn't a nuke sub, you don't need
to 'live
the supernode lifestyle'
to buy one. << lol!
mircea_popescu: i could see a situation where he doesn't know how
to use it and doesn't
trust anyone
to.
this situation, obviously, can't stand as an explanation.
bob____: asciilifeform: agreed. me
too.
Ukto: and btw, long
time no see :P
Ukto: once you read
teh post you will understand why its so simple
Ukto: to focus on launching
the big fish
Ukto: I need a lot less work from
things
that cost more more
than I make.
Ukto: I'll prolly post about it in
the next day