Indeed. The real ideological battle going on in the world today is between two things:

The ideologies and forces of communalism vs the ideologies and forces of individualism.

This is the only lens in which to view the world which will make sense of everything happening around us. Capitalism is what results when you apply individualism to the economic realm.

For most of history our political institutions have been communal.

The trend was bucked strongly for the first time with early Britain during the Industrial Revolution and then with the Declaration of Independence, which is an individualist document.

Since then, communalism in government has gained strength in both Britain and the US. The very culture of individualism that created the modern world is now being threatened with extinguishing. Government has achieved near total power in both places.

The reason this happened is because any organization predicated on communalism is likely to tend towards greater communalism over time. The Founders of the US, despite their intentions, didn't understand individualism as a philosophy of freedom, and thus built a government which was freer than what existed elsewhere, but still predicated on communal principles.

The US constitution is inherently a communalist / socialist document. Socialism is what results when you apply the principles of communalism to the political realm.

So, what happened at last is that pure communalism in the form of socialism, in the 19th century, decided to try to apply communalist principles to the economic realm as well.

This effort created communism--the application of communalism principles to economics.

Communism failed for various reasons I won't go into, but suffice it to say that communism can never be as efficient as capitalism (see the "socialism's economic calculation problem" for explanation).

Capitalism is individualim applied to the economic realm.

Now, if you've followed me this far, you may have noticed that there's one combination which has never, in the history of the world, been tried. There are no outstanding examples of individualism applied to the political realm.

This is the road forward for the world. We must figure out how to apply individualism to the political problem of rights protection, law, law-enforcement, and dispute resolution.

I'm working on these concepts currently, having taken Robert LeFevre's term to head them under. He called this idea "autarchy," meaning "rule of the self, by the self."

To apply individualism to the political problem means first of all abandoning democracy. Democracy is easily seen as a communalist / socialist tool. It seeks to force the will of the masses, as obtained through a vote, on the minority parties.

Whenever you have a society that pushes aside the individual will for that of the majority, you have a communalist society. And whenever a society lets the individual will stand against all of society, that is an individualist society.

We must build an autarchist society where each individual is a sovereign over themselves and their property. Where we reject the principle that anyone should be able to force laws on anyone else. Where each person has total control over their personal set of laws.

With modern technology, this is completely doable. We no longer need representatives forcing laws on us. That is inherently unethical. If we are self-owners and self-rulers, let us truly rule ourselves. Not this sham called democracy.

That is the way forward for this world. I plan to build just such a society in a seasteading context within the next 10-20 years, and pave the way for mass migration into such a society. For if it works as I imagine it, it will be far more prosperous and free than these socialist societies, and people will flock to it thereby.

This has never been true and is an example one of the great falsities the leftist-anarchs believe. Not only does property exist without the state, animals act as if they own things, themselves, their herds of female, and territories even. There've been done some interesting studies on property ownership in the animal kingdom.

Some primitive tribes do live collectively, but in that case they live as if the tribe owns everything, not as if there were no property at all, which belies your point, since they are stateless.

Functionally it's impossible to live without property as a concept. Because if you can't be the exclusive owner of a thing, then you cannot even live. For to dispose of a bit of food and water is to sequester it away for your exclusive use, which is to own.

Those railing against property have completely missed the mark, and it's a shame that all of leftist anarchism and socialism is focused on doing away with private ownership of property.

It was never property that was the problem. Property is the solution! The problem is government itself interfering. The socialists then allied with government and became the very thing the left-anarchs had railed against.

/r/seasteading, imo.

The middle class was created by capitalism, just look into history of the middle class, it arrived with the industrial revolution in Britain and followed from there to the world.

It is socialist states where income disparities are worst.

Utterly ridiculous.

People produce extra because it's in their interest to do so, so they can exchange it for other wanted goods or invest it, etc.

The nation-state actually circumvents this by siphoning off the extra production, reducing incentive to produce extra, since you won't get to enjoy it nearly as much, since they take it from you.

SKU-249 means you bought a 1-500 miner on the first week and were part of the pre-order group, the golden ticket group.

If you look on the miner page, they all have a SKU number under them. Right now you'll see the Jupiter is SKU-250. You can't buy a 249 anymore.

All the 249's were guaranteed to ship 1st day.

However if you weren't part of the pre-order group you couldn't even see SKU-249 in the store. Thus if you bought day 1 and didn't buy SKU-249, there's no reason to expect you'll necessarily ship on day1. Only the pre-order group got that guarantee with sku-249 and the Saturn equivalent (which iirc is SKU-33 vs SKU-34)

Think of it like a GPU rather than a CPU, parallel processing over serial. There are GPU cards that suck in that range already. A CPU never has all of it active, it's not a parallel device. This chip will be flying full-speed, 100% utilization nearly, all day every day.

As for the lab-rat quip, it's a risk! It's up to you to decide how much you're willing to accept. Me, I rolled the dice. You don't wanna, that's cool too. Either of us may look like geniuses in retrospect that's how risk works.

But let no one say this is a gamble. Gambling is where you take a risk where the odds are decidedly against you. Investing is a risk where the odds of a return are in your favor.

All the great fortunes are built on investment. The modern world itself was built on investment. Investment is one of the greatest things you can do in this world, as it helps everyone even as it helps you yourself. And here we are, taking massive risks with our personal money to buy machines that will help establish the bitcoin network, laying the groundwork for a revolution in money that 95% of the world doesn't even realize is taking place.

This is the kind of opportunity that people wait a lifetime for, and here we are living it

It's quite possible that SKU-249 has a different queue than SKU-250 as well.

If you weren't in the early registration group you couldn't buy a 1-500 SKU-249 miner, even on the first day. You could be the first guy to buy a SKU-250 with order number 1 and you're still not shipping first day most likely.

I posit this because they'd previously said that each model has its own queue.

Good attitude

Paypal orders may have been pushed back due to the difficulties they had with Paypal the first week. Shipping is by order paid, and that problem with Paypal may mean some people technically ended up paying later, through no fault of their own.

Kinda hilarious or ironic in a way, those who paid with bitcoin receive today a small bonus for doing so, since payment was instant. And here were have had problems with Paypal, the very problem bitcoin was created to alleviate! Us, bitcoin miners!

Down with fiat.

I checked today, queue orders have been added, but it's a bit obtuse how to check. Take your order *TRACKING number, go to the homepage and plug it in on order tracking at the bottom, it shows then as a comment there.

*Edited

The design of the case and PCB is the same as Jupiter/Saturn, just 1 chip rather than 4. So, it's basically zero extra design. Just a way to sell more overall units. Perhaps a 2nd chip order, as it's scheduled to ship in October.

Pshaw. There's what you'd like to do and there's what the market wants. They have long conducted a poll on their site and clearly most interest is in a cheaper device. They're not doing one in the hundreds-of-dollars range like BFL that would give them thousands of customers or w/e, this is a $2k device that is a good compromise between their aim to do a higher-cost device and avoid masses of customers logistically.

They also said the order would be placed the week after the Mars promo.

Your assumptions are, like everyone else's here, simply an attempt at building reasonable inductive likelihoods. Some put more or less emphasis on different aspects and conclude different things.

And those who perceive the state of things closest to the reality that actually results will be the most rewarded.

KNC introduces the Mercury miner:





Notice they've updated the box designs. Mercury appears to be the same box with only 1 hashing unit, meaning they may plan for both Mercury and Saturn to be upgradeable into a Jupiter.

How would you remote admin it?

They'll just nationalize the banks and then run them into the ground.

Only a matter of time until Litecoin ASICs come out. Just need way more memory, which will likely be on-chip, so the relative performance goes way down compared to SHA-256 (mega-hashes rather than gigahashes), but otherwise nothing to stop it from happening.

Ie: Saturn x 2 = 1 Jupiter.

I was seriously wondering how his numbers were possible!

Okay, now do KNC's numbers!

You are a dreamer. This is science fiction, written by austrian aristocrats. I know these theories very well, and in my former life I was an Austrian as well, until I realised that it is ahistoric science fiction. Real stateless communities in the rain forests 'produce' about the same amount as they did 10'000 years ago.[/quote]
They don't have advanced specialization or any concept of capital investment. Of course they produce little to nothing. What relevance does that have, at all, to what I'm talking about here. Correlation is not causation. I'm not talking about a stateless society, I'm talking about a society where every-person is their own state, their own sovereign. It's a subtle difference but try to catch the rub. Stateless clans in rainforests typically operate in a form of savage socialism--not extreme political individualism such as I suggest. They are virtually opposite situations.

No, we've had governed, collectivist societies for literally thousands of years and they never produced what we have now. It was economic individualism that produced the modern world, not government action on society as you seem to suggest. Name a place more governed than ancient Egypt or China--these places didn't produce highly.

Deny is a better term. I don't think you know your economic history.

That's far too general a statement. A society is collectivist when it holds that the group must be put before the individual. A society is individualist when it holds that the individual's rights can stand against group desires.

A society is either or, it is not innately either. Rights protections are innately individualist, for instance.

False. You've stated one of the common misconceptions about anarchy. Anarchy is not against cooperation, it is against compulsory cooperation. Thus anarchy is not against division of labor and cooperation in terms of companies, it's against being forced to work with X and the like.

The rest of your quote is useless to respond to since it's predicated on this misunderstanding, so I'll ignore it.

Yeah, that's the main issue there. You can also do that with large bays that have a narrow inlet.