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mircea_popescu: it does have
that by default by
the
time people are putting it in as space heating
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that fabing has a significant upfront cost, but at stake is not an improvement in energy efficiency,
benkay: you still have
to dump juice in
benkay: you still have
to dump heat in
benkay: asciilifeform: eventually
the hardware will be cheap enough
to put in waterheaters and floor
tiles.
that's
the endgame. none of
this humans mining shit.
dub: and of course
the gamblers
trying
to win
the idiots money
dub: just a alot of idiots donating heavily
to
their own education
mircea_popescu: i prefer
to look at bitcoin flows rather
than
the crazy
threads.
dub: sadly looking at
the labcorn
thread I can't see her having made any impact
mircea_popescu: arguably with more success, owing
to
the relative cluelesness of
teh forum
tardcloud pre mpoe-pr & other meanines.
jurov: more pictures would disturb
their chi
mircea_popescu: step 1 : no proofs. people clearly delineate whart proof is needed. step 2 : list of irrelevant crud masquerading as response
to step 1. people clearly delineate why
this doesn't qualify
mircea_popescu: Duffer1
this is an old scammor
trick. it goes like
this :
Duffer1: labcoin is
the gift
that keeps on giving, AmAZING COMPANY
Duffer1: "Probably no more pictures as
they only do create more confusion." clearly what
they need now is even LESS communication
Duffer1: i can't decide what
they sound like more: desperate scammers, or desperate incompetents
mircea_popescu: it's not nice
they;'re also scammy fucks, but what can you expect.
mircea_popescu: it's nice
that some people have stepped up
to waste govt's
time
to no avail.
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck does a distributed network need a spokesperson for ? it doesn't. it's
the government
that needs someone
to
talk
to.
mircea_popescu: if you
think about it, a foundation is exactly antithetical
to bitcoin.
thestringpuller: eventually all
the idiots will be consumed by
the woodchipper
Duffer1: it's not even investing at
this point it's gambling on long odds
mircea_popescu: "good price
to enter for extreme risk
takers" -> "excellent way
to waste your btc"
Duffer1: good price
to enter for extreme risk
takers
thestringpuller: i like how we're all sitting here watching
this actually happen
Namworld: oh... not
that kind of bargain.
mircea_popescu: it's
the one skill poor people most desperately need and most utterly lack.
mircea_popescu: the only way
this will be resolved is
through
the making of prototypes.
mircea_popescu: it's extremely difficult
to evaluate claims of quantum computing in a
theoretical sense.
benkay: "papers are
to
tweets as academics are
to americans"
benkay: although
they could just as easily be just as worthless
benkay: i'm reading papers
though not
twitter
mircea_popescu: also keep in mind
the observation
that it is quite common for people with no ability and no understanding
to
try and compensate
through
the imaginary creation of "communities" like minded
benkay: even if
the device doesn't exist, and nominally simulating codebases are hard
to
test
benkay: i'd be willing
to accept
their claims
that
they work on quantum computation
benkay: so if someone who understands how bits flopping back and forth and existing in superposition can be knotted
together into a
theoretical computation device...
mircea_popescu: (except he didn't build anything as
the
t machine is an abstraction, but anyway)
benkay: there was no
turing machine before
turing built it, and yet he was working on computation before
that machine existed.
mircea_popescu: and importantly, i'm not aware
there's a "quantum computer community"
mircea_popescu: chose
to neglect it, much like
the us had ample warning re
the 2001 attacks and chose
to ignore it.
benkay: sure, and
the nazis had no proof
that
the enigma was cracked until
they lost
mircea_popescu: there's no proof of
that any more
that
there's proof of elvis still being alive.
benkay: i'm hazarding
that someone with oodles of resources may have come up with a fast way
to factor big integers
mircea_popescu: and finally all generalisation is
the work of
the motherfucking devil.
mircea_popescu: benkay all crypto is not broken, all businesses are not scams, all polticians are not corrupt, all governemnt is not welfare socialist crap, all niggers are not
thieves, all women are not stupid
benkay: and
that
the snowden leak was so well pulled off because it's actually not real
benkay: and given
that
the nsa figured out
the fundamentals of rsa before rivest shamir and adelman, i'd bet
they have a functional quantum emulator in silicon
benkay: there's
this idea floating around
the quantum computing community
that you can emulate certain
types of quantum gate networks in
traditional deterministic, irreversible silicon chip architectures
benkay: operation whatver, i forget
the precise name of
the situation
benkay: see also
the
trivial amounts of money being dribbled into d-wave
benkay: i'm beginning
to suspect
that all crypto is broken and
that
this is a distraction a la dropping
the dead diver in
the water with important papers w/r/t spies
to cover up
the Enigma cracking circa wwii
Namworld: I still follow
the USA's screw ups, yes
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller is butthurt or
thestringpuller's butt is hurt ?
jurov: someone else came with a whip and now
thestringpuller is butthurt
benkay: if you believe
that i have an asic ipo
to sell you
thestringpuller: No,
that's not what happened! What
the fuck is wrong with you people :P
thestringpuller: she was like "That is
the sexiest spreadsheet I've ever seen"
Namworld: My portfolio
tracking code? You used it
to showcase your portfolio and found a bitcoiner who
totally got horny looking at it?
benkay: i want
to hear more about
this
Namworld: You popped out of nowhere with
that. Did I do something or what?
jurov: i know. just wanted
to see if he reacts
benkay: actually i prefer
the Notorious BIG's approach:
benkay: we have Brownings atop
this castle.
benkay: i'm sufficiently isolated
to not care
benkay: listen, if i'm privileged, i don't have
to deal with your idiot notions of power.
benkay: hence
the humor inspired by people running around hooting about privilege