Recent comments by JP
azurite wrote:
traderwalt wrote:
You might be blamed for every drug related crime and/or drug related death.
Plenty of DUIIs due to booze in the US, politicians get re-elected anyway.
And then there is that whole 
thing.
// tosses and like a professional
Everyone pray the technologists' prayer with me: "Please god just one more bubble and I promise not to piss this one away."
Comrade Janošik wrote:
I'd just like to not here that, the US indices, the dollar, oil, and gold are down; the euro is up.
Must be because they're not making any more euros.
traderwalt wrote:
we commented extensively on this in the last thread.
The ideological part of the brain requires a LOT of repetition, as I'm sure you've noticed around here.
traderwalt wrote:
we commented extensively on this in the last thread.
The ideological part of the brain requires a LOT of repetition, as I'm sure you've noticed around here.
This was below expectations of 54.0% and suggests manufacturing expanded at a slower pace in March.
Maybe we should sequester manufacturing indices.
Outsider wrote:
Anyway, it was an April Fools article. Not that anyone noticed.
But I have a potato which is the spitting image of Pope Francis! Where will I post this news?!
ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:
But if $/BTC continues in the current territory
I find this stuff a little bit fascinating, both the exchange as well as the possible failure modes.
Maybe once I've thought through some of my half-assed theories (so that they encompass the whole ass) then I will write more.
But until then, I have programming for video transport to consume me... so no time as usual.
poicv2.0 wrote:
They're 16 years old now so I guess they've had a good life
And somehow I'm guessing that they've led more spoiled lives than they might have otherwise.
ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:
for a very limited time
So the GPU's probably are only good for a few months before the electricity exceeds the cost of mining? At least that was my uneducated take.
ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:
Generating small amounts of profit from hardware that otherwise sits idle is/was good enough for me.
So my FML story: Last week I could not stand it anymore and decided to see what our bigass boxes could do in their spare time:
GPU = 575 Mhash/s
CPU = 60 Mhash/s
These are 2x Xeon x5690 (24 threads) with ATI 7970. I've been too busy to even contemplate it before.
Just as I figure out this scam and that I was well-suited to go build those ASICs, I realize I am totally late to the party.
Rajesh wrote:
Sweet-Love is Like Oxygen ( 12" long version )
JPs First concert! Sweet opened for Foghat, 1978 or so.
I'm an old dude.
Edit: June 10 The Official Foghat Website
I can't believe the stuff that is memorilized on the net.
Anonymous Bosch wrote:
Caffeine is out of the picture too.
My response would have to be: Kill me now.
I hardly speak German and learned just enough for niceties and to order myself a beer.
So my introduction to the regionalities happened one fine day in Nuremberg, I went out with German engineering colleagues and ordered a Weissbier. The waitress didn't understand and asked me what I wanted again. Naturally, I assumed that my terrible German was to blame and repeated myself. She still didn't understand, so I reduced it to "Ein Weissbier, bitte". I mean, how can I screw up those few words, right?
Well, she again did not understand and one of my friends interceded with rapid fire German, she responded in rapid fire fashion and this went back and forth for a minute until her face turned red and she walked away from the table. My Weissbier appeared in a few moments.
My friend later explained that I had (hilariously) stepped into a north-south battle: The waitress was from the north, where it is unsophisticated to call it Weissbier and was trying to train the obvious foreigner with the bad accent to call it Hefeweizen.
None of this stopped me from enjoying the beer.
Rajesh wrote:
Schaeuble says euro zone savings deposits are safe
Well that pretty much confirms it: Euro zone savings deposits are up for grabs to the first euro bankers that can get their hands on them.
LoserBeachBum wrote:
Not to even mention the Catholic/Lutheran crossing across the Germany! Berlin and Bavaria might as well be in different planets.
You talk like a y Prussian.
Zombie houses: 300K+ in America - Boing Boing 
Florida has the largest zombie infestation (90,556!)
Are we sure LLiz isn't ?
Nemo wrote:
Google Glass to be ‘made in USA’ - FT.com
I love that we hear about that from the British press.
Rickkk wrote:
On July 20, 1984, Fixx died at age 52 of a fulminant heart attack,
Favorite line from The Bucket List: "Somewhere, some lucky bastard is having a heart attack."
poicv2.0 wrote:
"No pain, no pain"
Sounds like someone has also done "The Dirty Ride"? I swear it is possible to put on weight during that ride because of all the food at the breakpoints. (IIRC, maybe that was the Sequoia Century.)
Antipodes wrote:
Getting in physical shape in your 40s is MUCH harder work than in your 20s or even 30s.
The payoff is bigger tho, imho.
Anything in particular that you are doing? For my own part, I run in order to eat anything I want.
Edit: "Run" is too strong a word, no records are in danger of being broken.
Winston wrote:
I really hope we don't end up with an economy based on a currency that's designed to encourage deflation.
Those who want to subscribe to a currency that has built-in inflation will do so.
Conversely, those who want to subscribe to a currency that has built-in deflation will do so.
The interesting point to me: The savers will favor the deflationary currency as soon as they figure it out. This has implications.
mp wrote:
jp, there really is no "good" under these circumstances. I thought I was a goner earlier today, but then bounced back.
Well mp, I wish I could write something at least good enough for a laugh, if nothing else as a small repayment of enjoying your posts and analysis.
Turns out that I'm just not funny. Maybe it's your own fault for logging into a board and not a board.
and
burnside wrote:
Humboldt Fog and caviar.
mp: I hope things are going as well as they can under the circumstances. 
sdtfs wrote:
Is it because of financial insecurity or is it their raison d'etre?
Having spent my share of time in SJC, there is certainly a number of people that have surpassed money and just use it to keep score. It's the curse of being born to build things, you're not satisfied doing much else.
I don't know how we're marking all those electrons: A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Outsider wrote:
We aren't owners, we are renters, for life.
Hey, don't knock it until you try it. Or something. (Signed, I've never owned.)
They're lining up, but it's a calm lining up. Patient Cypriots queue as banks reopen
| Reuters
some investor guy wrote:
I would seriously consider letting them go to MIT Independent Activities Period
My first IAP, I built my own computer (ie, soldering things like TTL onto a board with a soldering iron.)
The statutes of limitation have not completely expired on my independent activities from my second and third IAPs.
Tom Stone wrote:
Let's not go there, I'm a Realtor.
You probably have great tits?
Bah, this whole Cyprus discussion is passé.
Bersani reportedly said that only an “insane person” would want to govern Italy and that the country is a “mess.”
Asia stocks fall sharply as banks weigh - Asia Markets - MarketWatch
poicv2.0 wrote:
Man oh man that second double-espresso I just had today really hit the mark
Quote by Dave Barry: It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people ...
So home prices, which are already above the 1989 bubble in terms of price-to-rent are going to skyrocket further.
You gotta love the public's learning ability.
Edit: Fixed the link
BarleyReturns wrote:
As in Ha Ha?
mostly. BoA, in a glass house, throwing stones.
FTA: BofA credit strategist Hans Mikkelsen flagged Italian banks as most at risk in the wake of the Cyprus deal.
Somehow that strikes me as funny.
lawyerliz wrote:
Just waiting for paperwork.
That's when they charge you... RUN!
Uh oh. Nemo is posting past the first 10 posts.
Sell everything.
ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:
Much easier
Bah. I have a bad habit of never choosing easy.
[Prior life was in the world of ASICs.]
ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:
510 Mhash/sec... now that's some horsepower in 2013, baby!
If I weren't buried under my own , I'd have a serious case of trigger finger for building hardware.
josap wrote:
Not sure what a business does about payroll in that case.
I'm guessing that intrabank transfers are allowed (so all employees will need to have accounts at the employer's bank.)
Oh thank god, I was worried there were no countries to save for this coming Sunday:
Stock index futures edge lower on Italy concerns - Indications - MarketWatch
josap wrote:
"The capital owned by the Church, which was over 100 million euros, has been lost,
Why should this bother them? They're in the business of charity.
Sebastian wrote:
what are you left with?
Discussions about gluten.
CalculatedRisk wrote:
I assume that's an April fools comment.