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Namworld: Guess we're not up
to MPEx's standards.
Namworld: Well with rg's previous violations
too, no financial statements plus neglect.
Namworld: My copartners weren't
too enthusiastic. I managed
to convince
them on a new contract, but we're real
turtles
Namworld: no... I wanted
to stick around but eh
pigeons: mircea_popescu is
trying
to push Namjiies into using
the rota one way or another ;)
mircea_popescu: that looks like one of
the nicer spots,
towards
the park.
pigeons: just pasted from
the forum
gribble: The average
time
to generate a block at 135000.0 Mhps, given difficulty of 3249549.58449, is 1 day, 4 hours, 43 minutes, and 4 seconds
gribble: The average
time
to generate a block at 135.0 Mhps, given difficulty of 3249549.58449, is 3 years, 14 weeks, 3 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes, and 48 seconds
gribble: use
the 'gentime' command instead
gribble: BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 14.29004, Best ask: 14.34998, Bid-ask spread: 0.05994, Last
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kakobrekla: i dunno who is
the attention whore on
that last pic
mircea_popescu: so a week or so ago - was it a week jurov ? - i was dealing with people rounding off
the last
two digits
jurov: i've seen
them firsthand on vienna pride 2012.. lovely
jcpham: i'd drive
the carriage
jcpham: if you own a horse and a plow you can probably grow your own food
to
mircea_popescu: in fact i've never bought anything other
than germanz.
dub: I'd scrap all
the BMWs and resell
toyota
mircea_popescu: unveil a horsedrawn carriage at
the 2013 whatever expo
mircea_popescu: would kick all ass
too. if i was ceo of bmw i'd
totally do
that
jcpham: but with a new carriage compnay
though
mircea_popescu: they're still falling over each other with
this non-bitcoin online payments
thing ?
Namworld: They should run a pilot project on wether if
they give me 50 million, I'll have 50 million.
dub: just what was spent on land/kit/ip for a build out before deciding it wasn't going
to return capital
dub: similar situation, customer wants x
to do y in z, a project arises
to achieve it funded by
the promise of its success
dub: im
talking
things
that need design/build
to be delivered
Namworld: It doesn't require US
tax ID but eh
dub: lots of
things I work on are more punitive, ie we start paying penalties for late delivery as well as not getting paid
mircea_popescu: Namworld you
think 50 btc or w/e it is changes my mind about stuff like submitting us
taxids ?!
mircea_popescu: dub manufacturer yes.
the
thread looks like it's about
the desginer
team.
dub: a contract with
the manufacturer
that
they don't get paid if its not delivered
Namworld: I suppose you're still not going
to claim
them
tho? =/
mircea_popescu: in general you should be able
to borrow
to pay a fixed retainer rather
than have
to offer
the laywer a % as in personal injury cases
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder and yes some lawyers do, but only when
they make more
that way
Bugpowder: Of course,
there is a discussion about
the spec
Bugpowder: In my limited experience with silicon mfg contracting, you send a detailed spec sheet. If
they don't meet
the spec,
they don't get paid.
Bugpowder: if you have
the right case pipeline
Bugpowder: it is way more lucrative
than hourly
Korbman: there are plenty of blue collar jobs
that use
the same system, particularly in agriculture
Korbman: especially if
they know
they have a solid case
Korbman: I know some lawyers
that do
mircea_popescu: i never heard of engineers working on
that sort of retainer.
mircea_popescu: "Another delay we've had
to endure is
the fact
that we have effectively
tied
the ASIC
teams payment
to
the success of
the chip. If
the chip were
to be a failure
they don't get paid... so
they have incentive
to get it right but
that has made
them very cautious and slow
to approve final masks"
jcpham: you can
thank me later for propping it up
jcpham: i set my pool payout address
to 1Dice because i can
jcpham: i have no choice but continue
to mine & hoard
Namworld: Sure no one has something
they'd lend for a fee?
Korbman: gah, I'm sooo bored at work
today
Namworld: ... I want
to short some of
these...
dub: mircea_popescu: did
the dos come with an extortion attempt or anything?
dub: hence
the Feild Programable and Application Specific portions
dub: asic is bascially
taking
that 'program' and building somethign specific for it
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it
took out
the entire gold network at gnax atlanta.
mod6: i was
thinking with
the way
that
the fpga could be reprogrammed on
the fly, it could be used in an elastic environment
thestringpuller: did you ever find out if it was a dns attack or direct
to your ip?
dub: fpga has is an array of various logic units
that can operate in a number of ways, you give it a program of sorts
telling it what you want
them
to behave and route between each other
mod6: so, ok yeah. i see
that
they are different from
this chart
mod6: hmm.. yeah, we'll just have
to see what
these guys can come up with
mircea_popescu: we will be awash in useless chips
to do any research w/e
mircea_popescu: mod6 due
to painfully obvious market inefficiency i would say by
the
time 3rd generation asics are here
mod6: anyway, was a dream I had
this morning
mod6: sorry, im wicked
tired
mod6: im
talking about
the same
thing as
the guy was
trying
to sell from BTC FPGA
mircea_popescu: those
things may be used
to possibly fold, for instance, but only if you do some
transforms on
the fold problem
to make it like a hash
dub: mod6: not afaik, you're
thinking fpga?
mod6: and i was
thinking if it was something like UCS, but instead of just CPUs, it could be large cards of FPGAs
mod6: well, i believe
that with
the asic you can program
the array anyway you wish really...