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BingoBoingo: And
today I wake up
to a bunch of emails from different contacts in HK all
telling me
that for
the necessary international connectivity...
They need new peering links.
mircea_popescu: iirc davout lives on island ;
tiny enough if you piss while running you can run around it.
BingoBoingo thinks
trinque and alf would make excellent
travel
team. Alf: "This not-US is AWESOME"
trinque: "BUT
TEXAS!"
mircea_popescu: so we're stuck, me dealing with individuals only,
they dealing with names only. until
this is resolved, ie, probably by force of arms,
the lulz will continue.
mircea_popescu: lobbes
there's some very deliberate "we in communism also have coca-cola". because
there's no way i'll
take
them in without
their crossing under
the yoke, and
they dun wanna cross under
the yoke (chiefly because
they broadly understand
that
there being no further substance
to
them,
they'll dissolve into nothingness, which is obviously
true and also why i won't budge).
mircea_popescu: An error occurred during a connection
to developer.mastercard.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). << aww, check out all
the offline noninternet websites! do
they do
things and utilities ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 12:42 phf: romania zero muslim! what is
this!
lobbes: "The Person-to-Person global market opportunity is $16
Trillion.
Take advantage of
the Mastercard Settlement Network
to
transfer funds between banks." << All
these banks drinking
the "Blockchain is
the next
The Cloud" scamolade. Can't
tell if driven solely by
the marketing-idiocy-cycle or if
there is also some deliberate subversion greasing
the wheels.
phf: romania zero muslim! what is
this!
☟︎ BingoBoingo: In other news, Austria's next prime minister
to be Sebastian Kurz, shitlord party. Make lulz great again.
BingoBoingo: But yeah. Way
to get monster Opteron 6128 boxes onto rack higher priority
BingoBoingo: I'm
thinking u1 rackmount formed aluminum sheet with fans on face apu chasis affixed
to sheet, unless alf shares his recipe.
mircea_popescu: you're not an experimental machine building station. if
the item exists commercially you use it ; if not whoever aims
to whine is more
than welcome
to produce it himself.
BingoBoingo going
to pick up a PCENGINES apu
to play with, Ubiqiti has distributors in Brazil, exploring best way
to acquire boxes
mircea_popescu: anyway, prolly get
their lowest
thing and expand it when you see enough
traffic
to justify it.
BingoBoingo: Sweet, and having
the
two 10 Gbps ports is only a $400 portion of
the $3840 quote.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo depends on
the node, but a non-magistral item maybe 10-50 kbps.
mircea_popescu: ~340 GB = 1 Mbps sustained for a month. ignoring
the 95%
thing.
BingoBoingo trying
to figure what a Bitcoin node sustains over a month.
mircea_popescu: right. i don't recall off hand
the phuctor
traffic figures, but pretty sure it's not 1mbps sustained over a month ; iirc not even a
tenth
that. eulora similarily eats in
the kbps sustained, and so...
BingoBoingo: But makes it clear why Netflix
tries
to plant a cage full of VCRs as clost
to every customer as possible.
BingoBoingo: Also makes using a U or
two on shared hosting service not such a bad proposition.
BingoBoingo: Not at all, looking pretty good actually. Even unmetered is only $4.6/mbps which shows
transit price is not outta whack, if we had a customer planning
to fully saturate connection.
BingoBoingo: Served, not figured into
the averaging. Hence "95th percentile"
mircea_popescu: the devil is in
the details. "busiest 36 hours ARE SERVED and not billed", or "we will simply cut you from internet 36 hours each month and bill for
th erest" ?
BingoBoingo: Well, I am working on understanding
this. Was sorta hoping
to get a X per
Terabyte figure. Anyways,
the billing convention on
these
terms seems
to be outta
the month busiest 36 hours are
tossed and
transfer is averaged.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so
they wanna eat a 3 per mbps at
the lowest setting, looks like, and otherwise willing
to let you have it for 50 cents if you commit.
BingoBoingo: Eh, looking more like
the price of internet isn't being properly levied upon consumers.
mircea_popescu: anglos never were part of western civilisation in any meaningful sense, and
their piracy adventures dun change
this.
mircea_popescu: pointedly it does not, "western civilisation" reduces
to
the habsburg lands centered on vienna, or if one is 1600s versed
the paris-florence-venice axis i guess
mircea_popescu: heck,
temeswar was a raya for centuries. has a mosq and everything.
diana_coman: lol;
those rubbish bins looked very...Romanian but
the "no islam"
thing didn't quite fit, hence Hungary seemed more likely
mircea_popescu: ancient people,
too. dobruja muslims are like odessa russians,
there before
the romanian occupation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's plenty of islam in ro lol. for eg constanta is like 15% sunni.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman possibly he
took his own women with
this
time, so isn't stuck depending on pot luck.
diana_coman: what, he went
to Romania 2nd
time and it's waaay better
than first?
jurov: mircea_popescu: pls process mpex withdrawal, seems
there's also stuck order
diana_coman: phf, ahh, bidet, right;
tbh
that made me instantly
think of Italy and it would fit womenz (if south) but I kind of crossed out EU
to start with
mircea_popescu: (carici being yet another way
to say cunt in
the language entirely made up of ways and means
to say cunt)
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 17:36 phf: asciilifeform: it's not a fun game, because
there's not any kind of hook
to go buy. "great coffee and beautiful women" is not it
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 17:00 asciilifeform: and i'ma a little surprised
that no one solved riddle yet
mircea_popescu: AND
throughout
the egypt
that i've seen,
they
to
this day have clay pots with water in
the shade every quarter mile or so on
the road. notwithstanding
that yes you can buy bottled water and did i share
that pic of
the desert dhl ?
☟︎ phf: mircea_popescu: i was
thinking of
those small plastic bottles
they leave even when proper water system is not accessible.
mircea_popescu: aha.
to reiterate, must visit istanbul, at
the very least a weekend,
take girl across horn
to see
the
train station
the romanians bombed, kebab etc.
phf: come
to
think of me both of my guesses are poorer
than
turkey
mircea_popescu: phf hahaha no such
thing.
throughout arab world, most of
turkey included,
the standard
toilet includes a water spit pipe ~where
the watertrap is. with special fauced accessible whiole seated.
mircea_popescu: in fact if
taken
to mission district and sultanahmed, civillian would wrongly decide which is "the capital of
the
technology world of
the future"
phf: i suspect in
turkey it would've been "they have bidet in public
toilets!"
phf: asciilifeform: it's not a fun game, because
there's not any kind of hook
to go buy. "great coffee and beautiful women" is not it
☟︎ phf: actually, not even
that, i'm not sure where i got
the bidet from :o
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 16:54 diana_coman:
to recap clues as I see
them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned
trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things
that need
to be done
there" -> ????? basically
this last one is a killer;
diana_coman: if
there were any cats mentioned I'd have guessed
Turkey!
diana_coman: to recap clues as I see
them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned
trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things
that need
to be done
there" -> ????? basically
this last one is a killer;
☟︎