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cazalla: mike_c, you're always welcome to write it up, pocket some shares in the process
decimation: mike_c: where else to us qntra readers buy bitcoin? otc?
cazalla: mike_c, buying and holding 2 different things, i use similar sites but it's a one way street
BingoBoingo: mike_c: If you can news it up, qntra worthy prolly. Just when Australia had an orgy of pieces on the wrong politics...
cazalla: mike_c, despite my being an aussie, it's not bias, simply interesting news coming from down under past few days, the coinbase thing is meh, plenty of sites have usd type wallets, who really cares imo, they can add the iraqi dinar and maybe i'll post that
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Unless you can do charts for it...
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Coinbase is not news. They exist. Their changing shit slightly totally not news. If qntra was a thing when they introduced their wallet less node thing, news. USD paypal wallet thing not news.
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: http://www.xenosystems.net/chaos-patch-38/ << a comment at the bottom: "Frog Do Says: IMO, “Moldbug studies” remain one of the more fertile areas of research for the American Outer Right. More interesting info in that “Trilema” piece than anything on Ferguson."
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the one of 30 black people of qntra is me
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: am hoping that the mythical other fella who knows cpp, can crank gdb, etc. shows up.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, i'd love for this to get done without any participation at all of mine.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: working on the chipped paint on the bumper.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some reason nobody else wants to. or can. or some combination of these. i can't say.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: path to travel is that i finish me gadget then proceed to fix bitcoind. but in this order.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phoundation - can buy golden toilets. foundation - cannot buy me lunch (even if wanted to!) lol.
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2jcfin/analyzing_the_bitcoin_foundations_2013_tax_return/
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Either one. Given the CIA's history of applying diverse hires I would expect thestringpuller to be assigned to somewhere lilly white or otherwise homogenous. Probably in a deep cover role
thestringpuller: ~_~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at home, half written. i'm still at [censored], fighting with crapware.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only dreamed, but simulated using bizarre terrorist contraption of fpga+dram+flash.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: not even worth thinking about until chicoms shit on the patents and sell them near cost.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see also: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=231
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the whole notion of files. file systems. memory allocation as a separate thing from disk operations.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because the whole disk-ram dichotomy is predicated on volatile ram. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: science died. << "and yet we can't conserve tech in amber".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah, this - no. but realize, all of these nice things (rebirth of ferrite core, nonvolatile ram) is wasted on unix.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of magnetoresistive ram (behaves like eeprom, but no ion migration wear and virtually no write latency)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can buy it now. (see, e.g, 'digikey corp.') patent lockup, monopoly, ruinous cost.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mram ?
cazalla: mike_c: qntra authors: coinbase is an exchange now. http://blog.coinbase.com/post/104112477642/usd-wallets-on-coinbase <<< usd is more an altcoin eh, not really news worthy imo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: science died.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but forget about ice cream men. ask your intelligence men if, say, LukOil produces own terahertz silicon. is there any question what the answer is?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but ice cream monger wants to live too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus << because ice cream truck does not bring in the income to convert it to galactic ice cream empire.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and memory access is the bottleneck.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anyway, bad analogy. i'm speaking of actual problems where higher clock on system bus equals more cash.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: multiplier.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't a broom to me, but the 'rifle' i carry every day.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just explaining that, e.g., 2x ram bandwidth - closer to 'oxen' than otherwise.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what did happen was - the 'strong oxen' died. simply died. and this made micros look good, because alive looks better than dead.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: kiler micros did better than the mainframe <<< noooo.... not for shared-memory problems! not then, not now. please, understand the basic issue.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: people didn't use to upgrade worth a shit << number crunching - existed. even if you're not involved with it, realize that it was original purpose of computer. it matters.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 im too smart, see ? level cap already.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> people didn't use to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all the incentives were alligned for them to. << What happened was Microsoft's "Let's mimic the Auto Industries idea of the Model Year" won even if MS could not execute on it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2008 processor << can get ~2x the clock now. i fully grasp that for your application - there is no reason whatsoever to do this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it sucks, he'll do worse than you << find naggum's piece on how 'market can only tackle one dimension of multidimensional analysis.' yes, other fellow will fold the protein faster, while running poetteringisms.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's always been cheaper to buy last year's tech and buy a lot of it and network it << to some extent, the problem i spoke of is a 'two strong oxen' problem. need shared memory.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it sucks you don't update << and lose the contract to the fellow who isn't trying to fold protein on 486.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was trying to disagree, logically, with 'we can simply preserve in amber hardware from golden age and use that for everything'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm more or less wasting life just by having the misfortune to be parked on planet 3 in 2014. this is quite clear.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: except the world broke since naggum wrote this. not even the oil prospectors write custom os now.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3233532779857997@naggum.net.html
BingoBoingo: Obummer comes for your boners: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/12/02/the_able_act_congress_wants_medicare_to_stop_paying_for_penis_pumps.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i were to rent hardware, would have to do most of the management work personally on account of massive existing toolchain crud.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i checked, rented gpu was not worth the cost. but say i did. then i get: the very same modern hardware... just - rented.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from a 'business perspective' very few of the things folks do to survive make sense. ice cream truck will not make the owner rich. nor the knife sharpener in buenos aires.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no dc. we're talking about a handful of boxes in a cheapo office. if any more, must have dc cage, then nothing left to eat.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: visit more threadbare pauper's shops made of shoelace and bamboo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu: two 0 old cpus are faster than a 0 modern << not for molecular dynamics sim. need fast shared memory. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can only afford a few dozen chickens before 'bracket' rises (cost of next tier of floor space, cooling, begin to dwarf the machines)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you haven't even heard the rest of the fun. at my other job, also stuck with maximally modern hw. because how many floating point ops per second determines, more or less directly, how we're paid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the single biggest hog in my butcher shop.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only winblows, though. but it's the 'heaviest' victim.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in car trunk, and it has to have room for six fire extinguishers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. laptop.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i tried to explain, recent hardware means, inevitably, either recent kernel, or laborious pick-and-choose driver vivisection.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was explaining why doomed to recent hardware!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cannot, much as i'd love to, use 486, or bk-0011, or handmade pdp-11 in fpga.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: need max cpu, max ram, or will hate life.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on account of my profession, i need max disk, cpu, ram, attainable. in portable box. still say 486?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember, this is a box i have to actually live with.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stupid << answer then. i requisitioned portable comp, could have asked for anything. should have asked for 486? with 640x480 lcd ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who exactly is doomed to grunt on recent hardware << just about anyone using issued portables. anyone with rented servers. most folks.
adlai: mircea_popescu: omg thank you tho mutth!
nubbins`: mike_c they look cool, no idea beyond that
jurov: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2003/10/01/Public-money-for-pubic-hair-art-decried/UPI-46201065031891/ << hope that's not you nubbins`
nubbins`: mircea_popescu cold storage for the discerning consumer, nothing more.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you gotta ppreciate, when the cas coins were a thing, 50 btc was like 100 bux
mircea_popescu: and speaking of which, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n5VbIuh_lo
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i want prison-made physical btc. toothpaste. << Oh, if I go in I'll have an arts and crafts project.
nubbins`: ben_vulpes yes, newspapers too 8)
artifexd: mircea_popescu: Nope. No ideas. Just asking.
mike_c: the point leen_, is to avoid late bettors who try to bet when the outcome is nearly certain
leen_: need to speak to mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: !up leen_
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can't be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close? << well not stated as obligations, but generally it's his job to get close.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping? << we didn't crap them bish. now eat up!
mircea_popescu: mike_c> this is too funny. scamfunding sites now offer insurance! << so did usagi.
jurov: mike_c: no responsibility.. but looking on it, i prolly should actually buy some to prop it up
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: i'd pay fiddy bucks for one, and that's generous. << Nobel prize is gold so you can sell it at one of those cash for gold store fronts in the ghetto
jurov: mike_c it's actually 1% and i'm outside that
jurov: http://ml.therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/patches.html << ben_vulpes there, another bug fixed
jurov: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/technology/once-celebrated-in-russia-programmer-pavel-durov-chooses-exile.html?ref=technology&_r=1 << i'd like to see talk between him and asciilifeform :)
jurov: mircea_popescu: EVERY BALANCE CHANGE ON MPEX SHOULD HAVE A REASON NAMED IN JSON/JSONSTAT OUTPUT. FULL STOP.
kakobrekla: adlai http://q.b-a.link/?data=trades&since=1411033765 or http://q.b-a.link/?data=trades&since_id=12345
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 19:56:00; mircea_popescu: kuzetsa ah i think you gotta pay kako for access to that ?
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2014 17:02:37; mircea_popescu: something like that. so one night while in here, i see movement in the corner of my eye
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:29:22; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, just watch people respond to stimuli.
adlai is wondering how mircea_popescu judges intelligence based on eye movement... it seems very dependant upon the setting