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pete_dushenski: https://i.imgur.com/IzbKH9T.jpeg << band-aids on nips are a thing.
punkman: nothing wrong with a bit of sugar. if you are going to binge on sugar, you will also binge on honey.
pete_dushenski: umped Novak Djokovic’s second serve in the 2015 U.S. Open Final—a savvy trick to disrupt someone’s flow, a seemingly harmless way to gain an edge. It’s what the great competitors do."
pete_dushenski: "It’s an alpha-male trick—put someone off-balance, flatter them and bust their chops at the same time. A few minutes later, he was grabbing control of the interview with measured responses, knowing that he didn’t have to perform without cameras or podcast equipment. And so he took his time. And it worked. I mean, how do you interrupt the most powerful man on earth? It felt like the way Federer repeatedly j
assbot: A retrospective on six years in the car blogosphere | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1WzHhWo )
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2015/01/25/a-retrospective-on-six-years-in-the-car-blogosphere/ << started in '08
pete_dushenski can't imagine a blog with 75 years of content
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 15:35:04; mircea_popescu: and then it will be 200, and then 100, and then you simply won't be able to get a container there. at all.
mircea_popescu: "This cost-benefit analysis doesn't end at successful exploitation. According to Snowden, the TAO—that’s Tailored Access Operations—operators running the FOXACID system have a detailed flowchart, with tons of rules about when to stop. If something doesn't work, stop. If they detect a PSP, a personal security product, stop. If anything goes weird, stop. This is how the NSA avoids detection, and also how it takes m
assbot: 0 results for 'ferret cannon' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ferret+cannon
mircea_popescu: who and why the fuck would steal a switch.
pete_dushenski: kakobrekla: what sound does a kefir make as it dies ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get a load of this : boxen weren't rebooted.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i could confirm the story that there've been a bunch of stolen servers all through ukr / poland / baltics, "opperation
asciilifeform: iirc cazalla had a tale about chinese strawberries in australia
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 14:54:55; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-11-2015#1326906 no, no, allow me to give you a grandiose anecdote to go with that! so, mp spends 6-700 euro to get new servers at internoc24.com which is supposedly the flagship of the entire "offshore hosting" "industry". in exchange for which payment, the following conversation ensues : http://dpaste.com/1HP9QY2
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo and understand, we're not even talking "server" aka 10 bux a month. or "cheap vps". or even dedicated. we're talking guy who walks in, orders 3 boxes, pays cash. and there they sit babbling. << I know seriously what the fuck is these people's allergy to money
asciilifeform: right after you put on a new tape bobbin & back up, no ?
mircea_popescu: in a sec ima recount the story of this
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and understand, we're not even talking "server" aka 10 bux a month. or "cheap vps". or even dedicated. we're talking guy who walks in, orders 3 boxes, pays cash. and there they sit babbling.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so now tell me a little more about ddos and basic bojums and whatnot. << Fuck there isn't even a business of datacenter
BingoBoingo: <punkman> BingoBoingo: what's "major mg player"? << A "MoneyGram" agent
mircea_popescu: what the fuck isn't a fucking gag.
asciilifeform: '5pc of respondents even reported suffering from "menstrual cramps"' << this has gotta be a gag
asciilifeform: iirc cn still runs hydrazine rockets a la su circa 1965.
mircea_popescu: and then it will be 200, and then 100, and then you simply won't be able to get a container there. at all. ☟︎
punkman: speaking of boats, "Prices to move a 40-foot container from Rotterdam to Shanghai drop to $300"
mircea_popescu: the very thing of being a merchant is, that you enter into deals.
asciilifeform: meatwotty enough and you're a peasant working the soil
mircea_popescu: you're looking at about 1.5bn investment to make a competitive one.
mircea_popescu: this is a red herring.
asciilifeform: unlike a hydro plant, a dc is this thing that, at its practical minimum, costs what maybe 2 or 3 passenger buses do. serious corps run their own. most of my past employers had their critical infrastructure in some variant of own, non-leveraged in-house dc
mircea_popescu: for one thing, most everyone works with a list of dc approved suppliers anyway.
mircea_popescu: whether they bought their own box and colocated it, or rented a precolocated one from dc is a very fine point.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why this would be a discovery or anythning. this is the business.
mircea_popescu: punkman that site is a known blackmail op.
asciilifeform: punkman: just as a mortgaged house - sure. but then all the victim gets is just another debt collector after him
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, EVERYONE in argentina. non 100 bills carry a 5% discount here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many, but the car is typically a museum piece
mircea_popescu: their budget is < 500 bucks, which barely buys a bike.
mircea_popescu: how many usians under 35 own a car ?
asciilifeform: what can a cop take from the typical american, other than anal virginity ?
mircea_popescu: exactly. so what happens next ? a) they show up for work and b) the only work they can do is star in movies, where unfortunate thirld worlders suffer the horrible fate of having their ancestral knowledge passed down at great expense that "white man good, you scum" married to the fact that deep down in his entrails he feels like this is a great thing!
asciilifeform: 'Some data centers in Ukraine had a raid this week and we dont receive the information in time to set the offers out of stock.' << any idea if this is true ?
asciilifeform: the 'unionize out of class' thing is horrifyingly real. in usa we have a custom of 'grade on a curve'
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 14:59:25; mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> heh, I have some coming to me to figure out some Maths really - about 50% run after a few lessons complaining that it is too hard and I'm happy with that
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-11-2015#1326968 << we have this pestilence. in the maths dept of $uni, there is a gigantic wall of leaflets for 'tutoring' flyers, and half of all the phd candidate folks pay their rent this way: helping victims of usa 'schooling' fail more slowly ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it makes the world a shittier place.
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> heh, I have some coming to me to figure out some Maths really - about 50% run after a few lessons complaining that it is too hard and I'm happy with that ☟︎
asciilifeform: reads almost like a comic caricature of orc sales, where you bid on a pig, and get offered old stinking rat, 'same!!1111'
mircea_popescu: you ever been in a negotiation before ?
mircea_popescu: so now tell me a little more about ddos and basic bojums and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-11-2015#1326906 no, no, allow me to give you a grandiose anecdote to go with that! so, mp spends 6-700 euro to get new servers at internoc24.com which is supposedly the flagship of the entire "offshore hosting" "industry". in exchange for which payment, the following conversation ensues : http://dpaste.com/1HP9QY2 ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: even if you're not a fan of the foundation of rome/end of thebes mythology, even if you don't particularly enjoy the jewish sodomah/gomorrah stories, what do you think would be the stable solution here ?
adlai: it's a rather inevitable progression, the only sure way to avoid it is to learn from those who didn't
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)
BingoBoingo: So qntra's down but there seems to be a law enforcement crackdown on the reddit clearnet markets. "btc is not the future anymore it's really becoming the only option." https://archive.is/Mcerz
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
mircea_popescu: yup. it's a thing, very ideologically dedicated.
mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/3N2HHHT <<< how a "modern" page looks.
mircea_popescu: i was rooting for a very small ecluse
asciilifeform: it wasn't a hermetic seal, but rather a kind of inverted glass beaker with very small hole for the robopipette
asciilifeform: and yes, could measure a flask of water evaporating at stp
asciilifeform: it sat in a sealed cabinet
asciilifeform: it was a thing of beauty
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the most likely scenario is that a monkey lifted the nums straight from a datasheet.
asciilifeform: rather than a particularly precisely-wound coil
asciilifeform idly pictures it in its most likely current use: as a doorstop
mircea_popescu: at no point have i measured a ,000. ever, in my life.
mircea_popescu: i admit to being a theoreitcal physicist.
asciilifeform: though this is not an abuse if the 45,000 is a measured qty while the 50 is a postulated one
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.
kakobrekla: -a
kakobrekla: not really as they prolly have a coin counting machines.
asciilifeform: which is a thing.
trinque: lenovo has destroyed the thinkpad line, mind, but if comparing to a toshiba, probably better
trinque: shinohai: http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/syd/5318478866.html << here's a better processor for cheaper
shinohai: http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/syd/5321646890.html <<< can anyone tell me if these laptops are worth a shit, in their experience?
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: mno. im looking for someone who is in the wot, as a primary factor organising their existence, to start a proper hoster, at the colocation level.
assbot: Ben Carson’s campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1NEcX8q )
lobbes: heh: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/18/ben-carsons-campaign-made-a-u-s-map-and-put-a-bunch-of-states-in-the-wrong-place/
mircea_popescu: about 2-3 tb a mo, yes
wao_: 10G ddos, that isn't a lot, right?
mircea_popescu: in other news /me just paid a bill for 1.999921 btc.
ascii_field: 'All dedicated servers come with a 938 SEK ( 2500 BTC) setup fee which must be paid in full...' << woah
mircea_popescu: this is a spurious schematism.
mircea_popescu: truth be told b-a needs a shitload more business kinda people.
lobbes can't wait until #b-a hosting is a thing
lobbes: this should be a reminder for me to do another backup on own my server data
BingoBoingo: Nah, Missouri State is a completely different campus
mircea_popescu: lobbes "a whole cluster" means, the front server, the db server, the backup server, nameservers, the works.
mircea_popescu: you gotta raise the kids yourself, because everyone's parents have been a coupla dog vomits and there's no adults inhabiting the world.
thestringpuller: bitvps, what a sad sad story
mircea_popescu: iuf you recall, like the first mpex listing was a fucking hoster
ascii_field: i looked into a few in m
mircea_popescu: maybe. certainly worth a shot, see how dumb they are.