mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2013/the-corn-thing/

mircea_popescu: jurov i see it went.

mircea_popescu: for the jackpot this is valid, mostly.

mircea_popescu: but for the ponzi scheme is not.

mircea_popescu: because playing more or less does in no way improve your chances to get anything from the 2nd thing

mircea_popescu: they're unrelated.

mircea_popescu: toffoo yes but different "players", so it can't go into the edge discussion.

mircea_popescu: i'm gonna start collecting these.

mircea_popescu: it's not different players in this statistical sampling sense we are using the term.

mircea_popescu: the jackpot goes to the exact set of players that played at 1.9% or w/e.

mircea_popescu: TRADING BFL MONARCH FOR LABCOIN STOCK

mircea_popescu: not worth the hassle, tbh.

mircea_popescu: i used to do that back in the glory days of the pmbs, coupla years ago, with the synth assets.

mircea_popescu: "Even the NO side, which I imagine is supported by all of the #bitcoin-assets fanboys"

mircea_popescu: who's the fanboy ?!

mircea_popescu: indeed.

mircea_popescu: one of the dumbest douches on that forum, the phoenix guy.

mircea_popescu: where's the "Sell all the crap" meme.

mircea_popescu: http://www.btcbbs.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1875

mircea_popescu: chinese forums i never heard of heard of eulora.

mircea_popescu: http://8btc.com/thread-671-1-1.html moar. apparently these heard of ThickAsThieves too

mircea_popescu: i have not yet heard anyone say "you know what, i think it'll suck". either i'm really good at filtering my circle or else this game may be too cool to make.

mircea_popescu: what was it called ?

mircea_popescu: aw shucks.

mircea_popescu: anyway, this will probably have a npc-ish town in the sense that it's likely the first one will be made by me, but i don't intend for that arrangement to be permanent.

mircea_popescu: i'm curious.

mircea_popescu: literally called rpg world online ?!

mircea_popescu: Namworld http://www.rpgwo2.com/ seems guy made a v2

mircea_popescu: reeses i wrote a thing and of all the irc people you're possibly the only one misanthropic enough to read it well.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/the-progre/

mircea_popescu: read it, drop a link.

mircea_popescu: nono, read it in the sense of, to a mic.

mircea_popescu: there's a bitcoin in it!

mircea_popescu: btw Namworld : this is a cute little tool http://www.ipaddressden.com/email/mkudlo@hotmail.com.html

mircea_popescu: the email came from a screenshot in the link. it found me all the guy's emails.

mircea_popescu: domains i mean not emails.

mircea_popescu: reeses why do you think they do that ?

mircea_popescu: reeses i guess they'd be a leetal out of touch.

mircea_popescu: i distinctly recall a buncha romanian dorks being so fucking impressed with hennessy they put it on their song

mircea_popescu: meanwhile they became the largest selling romanian rappers in history, and so consequently half the brandy drunk here is that, in spite of romania having much better stuff and definitely the world's best cognac on tap.

mircea_popescu: right, but you know what i mean.

mircea_popescu: yeh yeh

mircea_popescu: dude you sound sexy.

mircea_popescu: http://e-murfatlar.ro/vinars-zaraza/zaraza-xo-extra-old

mircea_popescu: benkay old timer, got mostly cleanned out by smart investment long before asicminer was a glimmer in its daddy's eye

mircea_popescu: also apparently the owner of the world's worst fucking tagline.

mircea_popescu: "Drawing on extensive cross-domain industry experience along with broad and deep technical expertise and innovation, Art Taylor LLC translates business strategy and goals into predictable technology initiatives with solutions that produce measurable results."

mircea_popescu: can you fucking explain that omg.

mircea_popescu: it hastabe.

mircea_popescu: i just hope for your sake it has great tits.

mircea_popescu: it reads like pre-mp pr.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: anyway, seriously, if you ever go bankrupt and everything you should probably start a voicing career.

mircea_popescu: and allow me to pat myself on the back quite publicly for my fucking otherworldly transcendent talkent picking abilities.

mircea_popescu: i mean it's one thing to tell girls they prolly have a great body under the bikini. quite another to cold call people's reading.

mircea_popescu: reeses be a darling leave the link as a comment ? will ye ?

mircea_popescu: fuck it, im reading it myself.

mircea_popescu: done!

mircea_popescu: so my mic is fucked ;/

mircea_popescu: pankkake you on alsamixer ?

mircea_popescu: hehe it is fun to read.

mircea_popescu: so fucking hell. sony made half a billion. it does everything, from chips to being a total IP asshole conclave.

mircea_popescu: sega made the same half billion. on ~5bn income rather that sony's 75bn, and while doing... nothing

mircea_popescu: i mean what the fuck, since the dreamcast 10 years ago what have they done ?

mircea_popescu: reeses i am still surprised they didn't die the fuck out.

mircea_popescu: i mean pre dreamcast, they did that saturn lol

mircea_popescu: anyway, the moral here is twofold. part 1 : microsoft xbox went nowhere in spite of being pushed by microsoft marketeers. originally it was going to do 200mn polycount. then 300mn. then 125. then it demoed 60.

mircea_popescu: part 2 : if sega/ms can't make it into hardware... neither can randombitcoinforumcompany.

mircea_popescu: polygon count

mircea_popescu: yup

mircea_popescu: comment on the post tho

mircea_popescu: well ok then.

mircea_popescu: til : it can snow in buenos aires.

mircea_popescu: yeah.

mircea_popescu: ;;echo here's your cookie dexX7

mircea_popescu: no, they're there.

mircea_popescu: it does yes

mircea_popescu: it is risky to withhold blocks

mircea_popescu: but that doesn't make it impossible.

mircea_popescu: (risk can be mitigated a lot if you have a very well connected node, by blasrting your withheld block just as soon as anyone relays a competitor.

mircea_popescu: yes.

mircea_popescu: a wide range between profitable and not profitable ?

mircea_popescu: what is this, obamanomics ?

mircea_popescu: that for sure.

mircea_popescu: people focus on process nm because it's much easier.

mircea_popescu: the quality of the design is probably a degree of magnitude more important for performance

mircea_popescu: the most important one is reliability, really.

mircea_popescu: power efficiency (ie, consumption per cycle) correlates strongly with the process size,

mircea_popescu: however overall efficiency also includes hash output / cycle. which... you know, depends.

mircea_popescu: here's a set of fun facts : in a 16 core chip which has 14 blown cores it is likely the blown cores are powered anyway.

mircea_popescu: which means it uses 7 times as much power as it actually needs.

mircea_popescu: now, it's much more likely to have blown cores in tight process.

mircea_popescu: so your gen II process is in theory 3x as efficient in power as gen I, but if you get 99% reliability on gen I and 35% on gen II well... gen I is still more bang per watt.

mircea_popescu: MilkyLep it'd depend tho. see the thing is, unreliable chips are unknowns.

mircea_popescu: a core doesn' hold up a flag saying "busted"

mircea_popescu: it might even run for seconds or minutes or weeks.

mircea_popescu: which is the rationale of the entire "burn-in" thing

mircea_popescu: power up the board for a time, see how much of it burns

mircea_popescu: dexX7 it's a false idea that chinese dc has no power cost.

mircea_popescu: if that were true the chinese govt would just export all the electricity and increase the production, exponentially, until balance were met.

mircea_popescu: in fact commercial power costs by and large the same all over the world.

mircea_popescu: i mean, sure some states subsidize domestic power consumption,

mircea_popescu: but that's really besides the point. mooching isnt a business plan.

mircea_popescu: you wonder who'd take such.

mircea_popescu: heya.

mircea_popescu: reeses romania has been exporting about 1/10 of its output since early 2000

mircea_popescu: it does, because it shifts see ?

mircea_popescu: if you have 100 generators 10 km apart each, you can actually move 1000km instantaneously

mircea_popescu: if one generator at one end has overcapacity and the one at other end undercapacity

mircea_popescu: exactly.

mircea_popescu: so in the end, same thing.

mircea_popescu: fu :D

mircea_popescu: aren't you kinda young for 11 yo nephews ?

mircea_popescu: you gotta learn to be a manager :D

mircea_popescu: next best.

mircea_popescu: reeses are you in eve btw ?

mircea_popescu: yes

mircea_popescu: lies.

mircea_popescu: "top lies men will tell to your face : 1. I don't play games ; 2. I don't jack off ; 3. I don't drink, smoke or do dope ; 4. I'm not gay"

mircea_popescu: i read it in some mag, it must be true.

mircea_popescu: no it was some cheap local knockoff

mircea_popescu: Maria Louisa or some bs.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/eulora-crafting/

mircea_popescu: http://btc8.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7&page=1&extra=#pid8

mircea_popescu: apparently im big in china!

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves lol drop it on the article comment section will ya :D

mircea_popescu: nah they'll just do it again next year.

mircea_popescu: except unfunnier.

mircea_popescu: "oh that cock how metrosexually sweet it tastes"

mircea_popescu: ~ obama.

mircea_popescu: o boy where's that kramer quote.

mircea_popescu: KRAMER: What do you want me to say? That the things haven't worked out the way that I planned? That I'm struggling, barely able to keep my head above water? That L.A. is a cold place even in the middle of the summer? That it's a lonely place even when your stuck in traffic at the Hollywood Freeway? That I'm no better than a screenwriter driving a cab, a starlet turning tricks, a producer in a house he can't afford? Is

mircea_popescu: that what you want me to say?

mircea_popescu: GEORGE: I'd like to hear that.

mircea_popescu: JERRY: Yeah...

mircea_popescu: KRAMER: Well, I'm not saying that! You know, things are going pretty well for me here. I met a girl...

mircea_popescu: JERRY: Kramer, she was murdered!

mircea_popescu: KRAMER: Yeah, well I wasn't looking for a long term relationship. I was on TV.

mircea_popescu: GEORGE: As a suspect in a serial killing.

mircea_popescu: yotta ?

mircea_popescu: persky americans, stop inventing measures and units and start dieting.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 what's an information age and what's the problem with the us having like one almost nonsocialist party ?

mircea_popescu: Bitcoin Foundation. "We're irrelevant so you don't have to be!"

mircea_popescu: uh. there is no such access and no such detector.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 are you kidding me ? socialised medicine passed by a joint vote.

mircea_popescu: i would propose you yourself as anecdotal proof that no such bulslhit detector either exists or is available.

mircea_popescu: check teh spam.

mircea_popescu: right, and the foundation can then ask for donations honestly, "so that ycombinator deadbeats may continue pretending like they're businessmen"

mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, "so that nsa budget is relieved a little"

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: why do you think this is so important, anyway ?

mircea_popescu: ver donated 5k back when it was whatever, 50k.

mircea_popescu: and they're gonna influence exactly you, for as long as you stick to that notion.

mircea_popescu: otherwise... hardly, rly.

mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr relax, no decisions are made by the board.

mircea_popescu: <Luke-Jr> it can help Bitcoin without trying to run the show <<< look, you know as well as i do the foundation is essentially purposeless, but has been recently re-purposed on the fly so as to give the usg muppets some pleasurable way to waste their time.

mircea_popescu: so whatever, focus on maximal washington entertainment value.

mircea_popescu: lol right. mkay.

mircea_popescu: it's ridiculously simple : you go ahead and promise absolutely anything you want. we won't deliver any of it, but hey, if they deliver anything on the strength of your empty promises, all the better.

mircea_popescu: ultimate exercise in something for nothing extraction.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're missing the part where in no way will an open, above the ground political party of bitcoin interest can exist or makes sense to exist before bitcoin is a world dominating sovereign.

mircea_popescu: until we have a majority of the aircradft carriers on the oceans, it'll be this muppet strawman thing.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 so what if it does get left in the dark ages ? i mean... who cares. shit happens, countries die all the time.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 i can respect that, but seriously... i'm very skeptical.

mircea_popescu: it's not a sort of rara hate america thing, but moreover... those people have run themselves into a corner already.

mircea_popescu: you expect them to somehow suddenly jump the fence ? hardly. they have other problems, like you know, how to live without credit.

mircea_popescu: who's "we" and what says "we" aren't ?!

mircea_popescu: that's edifying.

mircea_popescu: it is possible "venezuela" might have not heard of you, you know.

mircea_popescu: who ?

mircea_popescu: (best abott and costello routine to date!)

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's a piece of shit, practically. why, just last march, just as Luke-Jr & friends were trying to mount the entire "sdice is bad" offensive, they got cut down by a sudden fork!

mircea_popescu: which was wholly unexpected because it turns out, nobody on power ranger team had read or understood their own databasecode.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you perceive this as somehow related to the foundation thingee ?

mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr one day you'll learn it's a bad idea to involve yourself in name only.

mircea_popescu: except it doesn't really happen, but anyway.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla considering the encrypted wallet.dat did eventually make it through, i have high hopes.

mircea_popescu: srsly. so it is a year or two late. coulda been worse.

mircea_popescu: because they're msision confused because they have no leadership because well...

mircea_popescu: let's not get into that.

mircea_popescu: ;/

mircea_popescu: pity you can't be fired for that stupidity, as you don't really work here.

mircea_popescu: stop strawman-ing.

mircea_popescu: jurov no because that's hard because it requires people to read code, which they don't like to do because amateur means illiterate.

mircea_popescu: much better to be randomly humiliated whenever anyone feels like it.

mircea_popescu: again that's not quite what was said.

mircea_popescu: lmaio

mircea_popescu: this is officially a meme by now isnt it

mircea_popescu: from the Finance Foundation.

mircea_popescu: it's this thing on the forum where people vote for shit and boards and i don't recall wehat else.

mircea_popescu: o yes. topics, issues and debates.

mircea_popescu: yeah.

mircea_popescu: well, seriously quite to the degree all the rest of the shit is, so...

mircea_popescu: sorta.

mircea_popescu: don't project your minority sexual inclinations on me dubby.

mircea_popescu: and btw, all the retards raging about how bitcoin is a currency :

mircea_popescu: at most a trollency it is. there's no curs in bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: um... social security is a ponzi. not related.

mircea_popescu: amazing parties!

mircea_popescu: ha!

mircea_popescu: learn to touch type, assbot. reeses can teach you.