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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform elemetary i was going to turn down his first babble.
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 11:05:17; jurov: i more deeply comprehended why mircea disdains "progress",it's eloquently explained there
mircea_popescu: how do i do these things.
kakobrekla: i have been using xylitol instead of the usual sugars lately and i am still kicking
adlai: i'm not sure the thing being fueled here is capitalism. i want to say consumerism, but it seems more towards consumptionism, packaged and sold to the consumer as consumerism
jurov: i more deeply comprehended why mircea disdains "progress",it's eloquently explained there ☟︎
jurov: i enjoyed the tidbit about coca-cola being a criminal organization since 120 y ago (as decreed by US judge, it got largely ignored)
jurov: we know refined sugar and other white stuff is evil, but last night I was horrified to see how: http://www.explo.yt.s3.amazonaws.com/William-Dufty-Sugar-Blues.pdf
BingoBoingo: Ah, that. I must have fucked up the copypasta
BingoBoingo: So Dr. Oz did a segment about the "dark web" today and an image like this was part of the imagery describing the dangerous stuff going on there: https://i.sli.mg/5mOHmZ.pngPNG Nothing about the drug trade, scams, hacking, killing for hire, etc. The real reason for the existence of the dark web is "bullying" and fat shaming."
asciilifeform: the strange, imho, part, is that ~outside~ of these constraints - buy from catalogue, or else wait most of a year (i got the motherfucking lisp machine, yes) - can do pretty much whatever
asciilifeform: would've been familiar to a clerk under peter I
asciilifeform: kinda funny usg story - 30k balance? no prob. but when i asked for 20kg of Pb brick for pedestal, so it wouldn't wander at 4th dec place when the lifts went up & down in the hallway - they never happened
asciilifeform: i had it installed to make the machine auto-calibrating (afaik to this day no such thing is offered by the original vendor, or anybody else. but no one wanted it.)
mircea_popescu: i was rooting for a very small ecluse
mircea_popescu: anyway. i dun see how weighing past 3-4 digits is even meaningful in atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: the finest tolerance motors i know of are in the 0.0x% range of consumption.
mircea_popescu: at no point have i measured a ,000. ever, in my life.
mircea_popescu: this notwithstanding, i did spend SOME time in the lab
mircea_popescu: i admit to being a theoreitcal physicist.
mircea_popescu: there's some rock band and whatnot. i guess there's just about 0 overlap between search results by now.
mircea_popescu: anyway fwiw i never saw that conveyance thingee, ever.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i originally had suspension points before the interesting.
phf: pete_dushenski, i haven't followed the whole scene since the time when i had to research the question for a project, but it was apparently acquired by paypal in 2013. hxxp://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-gateway-braintree-for-800m-in-cash/
mircea_popescu: anyway. i hadn't any idea such a thing as "British Board of Film Certification" existed. amusingly, i still don't. nice reddit name or w/e it was, facebook trademark.
mircea_popescu: i just dun get it.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326703 << actually was ~memory i/o~ bound ☝︎
shinohai: I haz registered firearm, not worried about fakes tryin to rob me.
shinohai: In unrelated to server news: https://i.imgur.com/lyA0pl4.jpg
mircea_popescu: for further lulz : https://archive.is/E1kAZ << this is the disposable email provider i just used.
wao_: yeah, I get it too
wao_: mircea_popescu: no, I don't own hosting company, where I'm going I don't need names :)
wao_: jurov: well, I can get E7-xxxx for $7000, but is it worth?
mircea_popescu: as it is i have no idea even what your involvement is with hosting. do you own a hosting company ? what's its name ?
mircea_popescu: that's nice, but i'm not looking for you to help me anything. if you figure this is what you want to do with your life, stick around, with the logs, build your rep, then go do it.
wao_: well, I can help you host it here in Slovakia or Czech Republic, maybe Austria. I've been handling ddoses since my 17yo
wao_: and you are seeking for better hoster to handle that ddoses? that's info I've recieved
wao_: mircea_popescu: hello! I heard you are searching for hoster? is it actuall? what are current bandwith to boxes?
mircea_popescu: i'm not entertaining it.
ascii_field: i would like to meet this Übermensch.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do i know, not like is in the wot or anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for all i know dude went binge drinking sold the servers to pay strip club bill.
BingoBoingo: I guess someone put the "bulletproof" to the test.
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> i'm unpersuaded it has anything to do with any ddos << when I attempt to ping, I get the 'can't find host' message rather than just 100% packet loss
mircea_popescu: i'm unpersuaded it has anything to do with any ddos.
BingoBoingo wondering if qntra will return to accessibility before or after I get my 30 day chip from storytime club
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla so i am.
ascii_field: i looked into a few in m
mircea_popescu: besides the point anyway. datacenters in the us or its phriends are off the table anyway. you all may feel just fine about paying the usg, but i'm not.
jurov: i just offered to rent hetzner box so far
mircea_popescu: i don't recall the name of his company.
BingoBoingo: From the I can't even files https://archive.is/jJV8H
mircea_popescu: i dunno how to put it more plainly, nor does it seem likely the effort's not wasted.
mircea_popescu: let me give you a pro tip : pretty much all women i currently own were involved in a relationship when we met. two thirds of them were involved in a relationship with a dude who "can't X until Y".
mircea_popescu: and i will particularly not stand to this absolutely noxious attitude.
jurov: this means i'm not qualified, either
jurov: all i know such thing does not exist anymore. either you use cloudflare, or become cloudflare, or suffer.
mircea_popescu: yes. well, if you're curious to know what i know, as a result of you know, actual immediate interraction with the thing in question,
ascii_field: (is all i know)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i only know folks who rent from 1 to 42U in some cage, like ordinary plebes, in one particular dc
punkman: still up and showing ads last time I checked
jurov: i see it as mp wanting something like thepiratebay
ascii_field: unless i got transported to some magical universe as i slept
ascii_field: mircea_popescu looked like he was about to have aneurism. please don't! i did not want to piss on his parade, but must point out that if $magichost folks do the same exact thing as the last 1,001 folks, they will get... same result
thestringpuller: ^- i was hoping we'd see S.SPACESHIP first
punkman: http://i.imgur.com/zOvNMLX.jpg
mircea_popescu: "oh, wait, i didn't mean each individual one". mk.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> if mosquito could move the virus, i and everybody i know in meatspace would be long dead. << this is a red herring. if cigarettes caused cancer the world would have ended in 1920.
pete_dushenski: i was referring to bed bugs specifically
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326389 << if mosquito could move the virus, i and everybody i know in meatspace would be long dead. ☝︎
ascii_field: i suppose usg really does believe in the deeply magical powers of pr juice
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326379 << i think these are the same cats mircea_popescu saw in istanbul ! ☝︎
shinohai: I guess, but people are fickle with brands, no?
pete_dushenski: what good it is ? branding, i guess.
pete_dushenski: i guess venmo and paypal aren't so distinct after all.
pete_dushenski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG-Wt0dAm_U << o hey look what i stumbled across :P
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326256 << this situation is probably more confusing to the soi-dissant 'entreprenuer' than anything else imagineable. 'what, you don't want me to solve a problem that i think is a problem because reasons ? what, you don't want me to develop an app to disrupt industry x while simultaneously bending over backwards to comply with every last damn regulation designed to ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wouldn't you expect if i hired a tramp to flood my business for the insurance his story would be "he wanted to strand his wife so he could fish and have an affair" ? << lol
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: i need to rewatch pulp fiction. i can barely recall it, it's been so long.
pete_dushenski: oh. did i ?
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 12:53:43; mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues.
mircea_popescu: i offer exactly 0 credit to this.
mircea_popescu: on examination i have no fucking idea what i've been spending my time on for the past coupla hours,
asciilifeform: sorta what i meant by 'human wave' - which i've no problem with personally
mircea_popescu: thanks for finally giving it the permission to be ? i guess ?
asciilifeform: when i say 'afaik' i really mean it. open to being shown the counterexample. or at least proof-of-existence
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you expect if i hired a tramp to flood my business for the insurance his story would be "he wanted to strand his wife so he could fish and have an affair" ?
asciilifeform: i have nfi.
asciilifeform: shinohai: 'i heard that ivan won a car in the lotto.' 'yes! but not ivan but piotr, not a car but an overcoat, not in lotto but at cards, and not won but lost' ☟︎☟︎☟︎
jurov: mircea_popescu: anyone. i just want to inllustrate your poor analogies
mircea_popescu: odd, i thought the icazu thing was mentioned.
shinohai: I have yet to try lsd, perhaps I should. >..
asciilifeform: if indeed this is a problem that merely needs 'will' to solve, and no technical improvements, i might simply be lacking the necessary lsd to grasp it.
mircea_popescu: because i also know what words mean and that they exist, fancy that!
mircea_popescu: and thank you very much for the credit, but if i'll actually ever need or want a "human wave", i'll fucking say that. in those words.
asciilifeform: i get it, 'stfu about the line of german pillboxes already, you're demoralizing the men'
asciilifeform: what i was asking is, what is to distinguish this new, magical and heroic hoster from the 1,000,001 existing ones?
mircea_popescu: i have yet to find one.
kakobrekla: i am all ears
asciilifeform: i mean i get it, mircea_popescu is stalin and не шагу назад and human wave attacks do have merit and occasionally do the job. but the kind of thing proposed here is inherently not a 'mass' product.