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mircea_popescu: jurov is it
the case right now or was it in
the past ?
jurov: but it even diverges from
time given in stat header
benkay: do you have something available for ntp
to peer
to?
mircea_popescu: basically you're stuck synching
to mpex rather
than expecting real
time having any impact
mircea_popescu: jurov because
the server does not have an internet connection.
benkay: he's probably yelling at
the monkeys
jurov: mircea_popescu, ur
timewarp enginez are misaligned ^^^
jurov: i'm pulling my hair out over an issue
that boils down
to
trade execution dates few second before
the orders were placed
Namworld: [16:06] <mircea_popescu> i need someone
to code me a mmorpg
benkay: and if you stay in
the pre-calculated space you might be able
to avoid re-running
the sims
benkay: "just run monte carlos over
the whole space and optimize for availability of future paths"
benkay: also i have yet
to see it run in real
time
benkay: I have a feeling
that parameterizing
the space and understanding how
the engine works is vastly more useful
than any existing software package
benkay: also on
the entropica
topic
truff1es: <benkay>
there's a log now>>> where?
benkay: yeah what is
this entropica
mircea_popescu: However, your Mac running OS X or PC running Linux
that meet
the hardware system requirements for Entropia Universe may also be able
to run Microsoft Windows,
the operating system needed
to run
the Entropia Universe client software.
mircea_popescu: The Entropia Universe client is designed
to operate on Microsoft compatible PC:s running Microsoft Windows as an operating system. It is not designed
to run natively under Mac OS X or Linux.
benkay: they don't understand
the costs of institutionally embedded knowledge either
mircea_popescu: because
they get most of
their income from pretending
those students doing boring shit are "gaining"
mircea_popescu: i
tell you, originally
they
thought
the same of industrial robots.
ThickAsThieves: cryto-trade.com was supposed
to be a BTC-e competitor, but now it seems it was about as scammy as we
thought
mircea_popescu: tho
the "mmo" idiots beat up in btc moved
there, and it's prolly going
to be
the internet marketeer reservation
ThickAsThieves: so
the question is, which, if any, altcoin is
the "real" altcoin
mircea_popescu: btc-e is pretty much
the reason nobody
takes alts seriously
kakobrekla: seems
this alt chain
thingy comes in cycles
ThickAsThieves: they can even make money pumping
the alts
too, it just seems like it's a house of cards
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pretty much
the pump and dump
they're running
cads: benkay: lets
talk more about 3dp later - I
think
there is a great future in personal desktop-based manufacturing, and it seems like 3dp is positioned
to bring it
to
the consumer.
There are lots of points of contention I'd love
to chat about, but I gotta jet.
ThickAsThieves: i had a
thought about altcoin manipulaiton
today, it seems
that every new altcoin
that pops up, magically has buyers on BTC-E. I wonder if it'd be feasible
to support new coins so as
to keep
the difficulty low on
the one coin you really want
to control and prop up later, like litecoin. You get everyone
to move
their hashes elsewhere, and
then keep reaping LTC,
then you pull
the plug
mircea_popescu: tbh
the no-relay-fee is probably
the grossest fundamental oversight in
the design of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: consequently
there's no way
to outcompete dust
txs, cause you don't pay a fee
to be relayed
mircea_popescu: im not sure why
they're not just letting
the
tx fee decide
jurov: you can research what was
the motivation in ltc case, maybe it was really spam
ThickAsThieves: it seems like something
theyll end up removing in
the future, so why add it
benkay: just barely less
than a cent
today
benkay: cut
time is lols for plastic
benkay: print
time vastly exceeds cut
time
cads: Yep.
the print
time of a part scales with
the part's volume.
The milling
time of a contoured part scales with
the amount of material removed, but more importantly, with
the feature count of
the surface produced.
benkay: let
the printer do
the complex geometry
benkay: carve off
the bits you need for dimensional correctness with a mill
cads: asciilifeform:
this is not
true - for a well
tuned commercial printer,
the process of
turning a 3d design into gcode is almost
trivial. Coding g-code for a cnc mill is amazingly hard for high complexity parts, and often requires
the production of specialized
tooling and setup costs for each new part you produce
benkay: mircea_popescu GPG identity management services will eclipse
the engineering payroll? o.O please correct my interpretation of what you said on
the other side of
that link
cads: it's also misleading
to say
that 3d printers require
the same CAD/CAM work
that mills require
cads: appplications for 3d printing are amazingly wide ranging.
The cubify is a mass produced unit in
the $1200 range, intended for crafts and hobbies, school classrooms, children, and so on.
cads: this is like judging bitcoin solely on
the characteristics of its use in
the silk road.
cads: and
the whole
topic is only for lunatics
cads: what I heard was a lot about printing guns, without any mention of
things like
the
thingiverse,
the form 1, makerbot industry's successes,
the fact
that
the staples is rolling out a 3d printer
that will be sold from
their stores (the cubify offering).
jurov: and
thus obviously nobody is interested in accepting
them
jurov: i
tried
to point out
that shitcoins are akin
to banknotes
that you can remotely
tamper with
their value