asciilifeform: nocredit: if you absolutely cannot afford physical colo, you can use vps as a means of getting static ip. set up ssh tunnel to your home node from the vps.
asciilifeform: nocredit: vps is woefully inadequate for the job. you need a physical machine.
asciilifeform: incidentally, there's a vacant rk, and if customer chooses to use the available sata snake and a 1tb ssd, he can trb. BingoBoingo plox to add this to the advertised list.
asciilifeform: entirely interested. colo available any time, this is on the price sheet.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: colo people can run trb, or for that matter anythign else
asciilifeform: diana_coman: for trb ?! it already has 3 iirc trb nodes
asciilifeform: esp. if your hoster is 'oh noes, someone is actually ~using~ what he paid for!' type.
asciilifeform: nocredit: bitcoin on vps is a nonstarter
asciilifeform: nocredit: the reason your log consists 80+% of 'discarded block' is that trb deliberately does NOT hold on to a received block unless it matches the litmus for possibly being the immediately next block in the chain. this is deliberate, and i personally wrote this patch.
asciilifeform: this is indep. of cpu/ram, so long as box meets minimum spec (2GB)
asciilifeform: nocredit: approx 3 weeks, if you're syncing from trb nodes via -addnode .
asciilifeform: '...Amazingly, it is now, and has been for some considerable time, an offence to ship high technology goods from the United Kingdom without United States Government export licences. Systime was fined $400,000 and has had its domestic and export sales put under the direct control of the United States Department of Commerce. '
asciilifeform: 'In 1979, DEC UK, under its American manager, Mr. Darryl Barbé launched a formal campaign known as the "Kill Systime" campaign. He had the full support of the American management. The DEC president, Mr. Ken Olsen, was subsequently overheard leaving a board-level meeting with another company, declaring that he wished to see Systime out of business. Mr. Pier-Carlo Falotti, European vice-president of DEC, said to DEC staff: I want you
asciilifeform: time's management commenced an anti-trust action in which the British Government took an amicus curiae position. DEC drew back and agreed to a partial continuation of supply. Systime appeared to have won a breathing space, but it was only temporary....'
asciilifeform: 'In 1979, Systime's management discovered that it was about 25 per cent. cheaper to buy equipment direct from DEC in the United States than from DEC's subsidiary in the United Kingdom. DEC UK objected to the loss of profit that that implied, and persuaded DEC US to insist that equipment could be bought only from the subsidiary. Subsequently, when DEC US tried to break its contract with the Systime subsidiary in the United States, Sys
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: near as i can tell, brit pm is like gensec of sovok after brezhnev -- they'll take whichever next half-dead dementia patient and 'here's yer caftan'
asciilifeform: possib the 1 thing the 'civilized world' has in bottomless supply
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it aint as if there were a shortage of suitable meatpuppets
asciilifeform: that fungus really oughta exist. nao if only 'bioengineering' actually worked..
asciilifeform: london is moar of a perma-move miamistan destination.
asciilifeform: afaik very diff folx. it's the 'discount' tourist trap for'em.
asciilifeform: they go cuz cheap orcistan, and pyramid, etc
asciilifeform: i dunthink they're in '5star' hotels, either
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-24#1915428 << last i knew, place was riotously packed with ru tourists. ( to the point that errytime they have a car bomb etc go off, ru foreign ministry makes Official broadcast '...and x ru tourists ate frags'☝︎
asciilifeform: at 1 time asciilifeform worked in 'cpu-bound' protein modeling racket and salivated over 'possibility of qc' along with 9000 other chumps etc
asciilifeform: iirc some time in past coupla yrs he ended up moving to adlaistan and married.
asciilifeform: today i can't stomach, even the older ones, barfalicious shilling for 'd-wave' co. etc.
asciilifeform: fella used to wite ~readable maffs pieces on occasion.
asciilifeform: lulzily, for some yrs i occasionally read his www, and all that time thought it was named for some obscure algo ( y'know, how there is 'ant-colony optimization', variant on simulated annealing with multiple threads and 'pheromone trails' , imagined there is perhaps also a 'shtetl optimization'... )
asciilifeform: ( he for many years was unable to park his cock, and wrote about how he imagined that in his ancestral j00 village he could have been 'issued wife' and etc. )
asciilifeform: 'i was all fuckedup on drugs; but then i found jizzus; nao i'm all fucked up on jizzus; but that's ok, i'm taking drugs for it'(tm)(r)(al schwartz)
asciilifeform did not read at length the 'red pill' people, but recalls that they had distinct streak of 'nostalgia' for a quasi-mythical past when 'would be issued a wife by village' etc☟︎
asciilifeform: 'ouroboros man', i.e. who disappeared up own arse, has no 'left' or 'right'
asciilifeform: pnoje is used as a comp substitute, neh, not transport
asciilifeform: ( if you walk into their store, the actual price iirc aint even printed on the sticker; instead 'monthly' rent )
asciilifeform: crapple, incidentally, jacked up the price not so that rich idjits would buy, but so that poor idjits -- rent
asciilifeform: 'look how rolexy i am, i paid whole comp's price for disposable pocket shit' etc
asciilifeform: near as i can tell, all of the '4fig pnojes' are variations on this theme
asciilifeform: if to think about 'price ceiling', there is of course not a ceiling, even in 1990s there was somebody who sold gold-plated, diamond-encrusted motorola brickpnoje
asciilifeform: interesting. complete with crapple-style oled panel 'throw out after 2y from crt-style burn'
asciilifeform with great difficulty pictures anyone other than ameritards paying 4fig price for pnojeisms
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-23#1915314 << for all i know, long ago already bought. reminds me of a fella i knew who compulsively bought old cars ( and garages, all over town, to put'em in, in which for them to rust... )☝︎
asciilifeform: ( could be -- disinfo. asciilifeform has not been to china, cannot confirm. )
asciilifeform: a la the old imperial civil service garb
asciilifeform: hrm i seem to even recall that 'retro' costume is nao in fashion there
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: google has dozen or so people who can sorta write.
asciilifeform has had the misfortune of reading some of their attempts. ~same flavour as 'india coad' generally.
asciilifeform: chinese ~could~ learn to write proggies themselves, but for some reason afaik no signs of this yet.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik all reich designs. near as i can tell, china succumbed to the old sovok disease, where 'let's make reich-compat. chips so that we can use warez'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they had the 'dragon' thing, aka 'rms laptop' 'loongson'. afaik folded.
