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a111: Logged on 2018-02-14 14:15 mircea_popescu: mod6 i'm not against you taking over ; but mind that as you also mention, BingoBoingo 's problem wasn'
t lack of access to capital (i dunno why this keeps being the expectation, as it's scarcely yet been the case, we're drastically overcapitalized is the entire fucking problem to begin with). BingoBoingo 's problem was lack of access to middle management, and it nigh on killed him. so for this to work, that's the key element.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-14 15:11 mircea_popescu: which brings the following point home : it's not at all
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-13#1783553 ; it's very much that the republic doesn'
t actually have the intellectual capacity to handle the needs of its immense capital, as of yet.
mircea_popescu: in this scheme, F is an 11 byte construct, as follows : [byte, random][bytem size][bytem size][
T][M][S][R][-][R][S][A]
mircea_popescu: but yes, the fundamental reason i didn'
t say no to uy (in preference of say, hk) is specifically that asia has a bw problem.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-12 16:42 mircea_popescu: "if mp built his back-to-back toilet, how could you ~using software only, mind!~ ensure the piss of his slavegirls doesn'
t mix ?"
a111: Logged on 2018-02-13 14:32 lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-13#1783471 << I can'
t speak for others, but talk (and opinions) are cheap! Only one willing to consider shouldering the post-mp burden/risk thus far has been asciilifeform.
mircea_popescu: in other words, don'
t wait about while praying st Hilarity. put your hands on it and do.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-13 14:26 TomServo: I'd very much like to see this endeavor succeed and would gladly offer assistance. I don'
t want to get out line if this discussion is for L1.
BingoBoingo: I have been doing that, but for Step 5 it doesn'
t seem right if you can'
t look the other person in the eye
mircea_popescu: orc can'
t be honest. not because doesn'
t want to or anything, but because honesty requires a live intelligence.
mircea_popescu: then you discover muslims don'
t know how to fuck, either, and realise that no, being an orc is a very substantial thing. it's not just foreign / neologistic items they fuck up.
BingoBoingo: But with the IspWish... With a mircea_popescu venture I had a good idea I was playing with a knife. I have a lot of uncertainty what a mod6, ben_vulpes, alf coalition offers that mircea_popescu didn'
t other than padding and yet to be determined quality of middle management. If they present an escape plan it would provide a lot of comfort.
mircea_popescu: MEANWHILE, however, they have 100% unaccounted for the time externality. so basically it's a contest consisting of a guy without legs going about finding fault with people's fingers. because he's decided "legs don'
t count", and so as he has much better hands than the rest of those losers he should be captain of the football team.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-02-12 19:55 lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-12#1783439 << this thread puts much in perspective. In all my arguments with socialist aquaintances, it always seems like it boils down to "well, if there's failure that just means we haven'
t tried xyz magical configuration of policies yet!". I.e. "goal posts" can be moved ad infinitum (in their eyes, that is)
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-12#1783451 << very much that exactly. the pantsuit rides on a high and mighty horse of "oh, capitalists don'
t account for ALL the externalities", hence its trojan horse of "environmentalism", because mind you that people making the civilisation run haven'
t in their ledger of costs and benefits a line for the obscure pondfish of extinction, and this, while epsilon, IS TILL NOT ZERO!!! concerntrol
☝︎ mircea_popescu: mod6 i'm not against you taking over ; but mind that as you also mention, BingoBoingo 's problem wasn'
t lack of access to capital (i dunno why this keeps being the expectation, as it's scarcely yet been the case, we're drastically overcapitalized is the entire fucking problem to begin with). BingoBoingo 's problem was lack of access to middle management, and it nigh on killed him. so for this to work, that's the key element.
☟︎ mircea_popescu wasn'
t going to read the logs ; but then hanbot insisted. all the better.
mod6: oh, thanks, didn'
t even know. good work lobbes.
ben_vulpes: aaand that assumes that the 5 slots mircea_popescu wants don'
t overlap with s.nsa
diana_coman: I think it can sell enough to l1(+l2 perhaps) but I haven'
t run the numbers etc (because I'm already juggling lots as it is)
diana_coman: fwiw I am certainly interested in being a customer of TMSR ISP but I've been waiting and waiting to see concrete offers; being a bit on the other side of the world doesn'
t help much re moving iron there either but presumably at some point I can even get that sorted in some way; if there is some ISP to get sorted to, of course
phf: ben_vulpes: didn'
t you lose a $1000 then, it works out to 2741/mo
shinohai: Can'
t sell what doesn'
t exist, neh?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-13 07:56 diana_coman: I admit I don'
t really get what the sticking point is there in asciilifeform's calculations: the potential tax on shipped equipment? the cost of BingoBoingo ? the cost of racks? not enough sure revenue (how the fuck)? what?
mod6: I don'
t want to through good money after bad here.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-11 14:00 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what your lack of experience isn'
t informing you is that you have a very significant advantage. your ~7k per annum cost compares very VERY favorable to what empire pays to hire a walmart drone (25k or so base + 20k or so in overload). the walmart drone costs 6x what you do, and i daresay they do not do 1/6th of what you do. just because you came out short of lordship in the field does not now mean the baseline of
TomServo: I'd very much like to see this endeavor succeed and would gladly offer assistance. I don'
t want to get out line if this discussion is for L1.
☟︎ diana_coman: I admit I don'
t really get what the sticking point is there in asciilifeform's calculations: the potential tax on shipped equipment? the cost of BingoBoingo ? the cost of racks? not enough sure revenue (how the fuck)? what?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: girl just pointed out to me that the illustrator of curious george and the bunny didn'
t let slip a single opportunity to draw a pink little bunny butthole
a111: Logged on 2018-02-12 19:36 mircea_popescu: in spite of all overwhelming evidence. because who knows, right ? science hasn'
t discovered everything, and it has all the time in the world!
lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-12#1783439 << this thread puts much in perspective. In all my arguments with socialist aquaintances, it always seems like it boils down to "well, if there's failure that just means we haven'
t tried xyz magical configuration of policies yet!". I.e. "goal posts" can be moved ad infinitum (in their eyes, that is)
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: in spite of all overwhelming evidence. because who knows, right ? science hasn'
t discovered everything, and it has all the time in the world!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because there's a list of possible questions organised in a question tree ("should i figure out glass or metal ? if i figure out metal, should i figure out sheets or rails ? and so on ad infinitum) it soon becomes apparent that no, it very much isn'
t worth it to evaluate arbitrarily complex ice sculptures for their possible fit to be used in castlemaking.
ben_vulpes: i don'
t follow the logic behind the valuation of the castle at
t->inf. once proven wrong, whatever bastion was defended is overrun and so worthless.
mircea_popescu: got all the time in the world, consequently the capital cost of wasted time is 0, consequently it is "worth it" to defend any nonsense beyond any possible limit. "eventually" (ie at
t->inf) they will be proven wrong, and consequently the value of their eventual (at
t -> inf) castle will be that much greater.
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER, the result of that isn'
t taken as "this is reality". the result of that is judged and its shortcomings fixed.
mircea_popescu: "if mp built his back-to-back toilet, how could you ~using software only, mind!~ ensure the piss of his slavegirls doesn'
t mix ?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's the skill involved here : reality consists of endless matrices, that for any practical purpose have to be heuristically collapsed, as they can'
t actually be calculated.
mircea_popescu: your output is not "i don';
t have the money", read above.
mircea_popescu: and yes i pay in coin, if that wasn'
t by nao obvious >:)
diana_coman: what I don'
t really see the point for is the mixing bit + octet basically
a111: Logged on 2018-02-08 17:01 mircea_popescu: diana_coman seems to me on the first pass the winning combo is 1.1 / 2.1 / 3.1 ; the phf objection to bit meaning precludes anything else it seems to me ; with the exception that won'
t bit-extraction (3.1) be particularly slow ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what your lack of experience isn'
t informing you is that you have a very significant advantage. your ~7k per annum cost compares very VERY favorable to what empire pays to hire a walmart drone (25k or so base + 20k or so in overload). the walmart drone costs 6x what you do, and i daresay they do not do 1/6th of what you do. just because you came out short of lordship in the field does not now mean the baseline of
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don'
t imagine there's other bids ; but if there are feel free to put a time limit on your bid and we see. i certainly see no problem with the matter being disposed by nightfall.
mircea_popescu: either of these under the firm condition that if at a later point bb has to fly out, it won'
t come to me.
ave1: If you start with desktop boards, can'
t you also start with desktop cases? (airflow will suck etc., but you will be up and running)
mircea_popescu: yes yes. do what i told you, i don'
t say these things out of boredom. then we'll see.
mircea_popescu: you certainly don'
t have to buy him from me in any case o.O
mircea_popescu: sure it does, but BingoBoingo isn'
t my chattel-held slavegirl, he's a free agent, what.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That isn'
t anything to sell. You would be financing BingoBoingo's increasingly uncertain adventure. Or coming down here personally meeting BingoBoingo and seeing if Latecho will transfer the contract to you before the end of February.
mircea_popescu: yes, but that was an idea, and the idea lives equally well everywhere. you don'
t have to implement it on this particular stump in preference of any other.
trinque does not know how the power dynamics play out among whore that ascends, and thus cannot reckon what her hindbrain tells her she didn'
t get.
BingoBoingo: "Don'
t flush toilet paper" is a warning I should have taken far more seriously.
shinohai: Thanks for clarification, I haven'
t gotten this deep down the rabbit hole with mine yet but looking forward.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wasn'
t enough to actually lose out 2048 bits ; besides, he's using teh fg i expect ? is he ?
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: you don'
t want a 4096 bit key; i can'
t find the relevant logs at the moment but koch-rsa does bad shit when generating keys > 2048 bits
pete_dushenski: in other "fuck your human rights rhethoric", duterte threatens to can deal for $300mn of canadian helicopters if bitch ass trudeau and his butt buddies at amnesty international don'
t stick to business. not that canada will - it's happy to shoot itself in the foot, calf, knee, quad, hip, and up until it's bled out for its colonial sins.
http://archive.is/oHOSj a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 14:58 asciilifeform: 'Boneh, in joint work with Matt Franklin, constructed a novel pairing-based method for identity-based encryption (IBE), whereby a user's public identity, such as an email address, can function as the user's public key. Since then, Boneh's contributions, together with those of others, have shown the power and versatility of pairings, which are now used as a mainstream tool in cryptography. The transfer of pairings from theory
t BingoBoingo: shit together for a Wednesday morning pickup)) Returning to the businesses that weren'
t yet open this morning when I first passed them, and then the longer shots... and listening for more referrals. Just might be able to get the count up to 12 cases.
pete_dushenski: trinque: expires on the 11th. lol didn'
t know better back in 2014 when mp said 'get in wot yo'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> leaving aside we don'
t even know what disks we're buying. eg, the rosewill chassis only usefully takes 3.5 inch ones. << 2.5 to 3.5 shims are on the list
mircea_popescu: leaving aside we don'
t even know what disks we're buying. eg, the rosewill chassis only usefully takes 3.5 inch ones.
mircea_popescu: nfi how you'll manage to actually pay for anything locally, seeing how you very indolently allowed yourself to be painted into this corner where you have no bank account and can'
t sell bitcoins, but that's a problem to be tackled later.
mircea_popescu: it's only available on some lines though, eg that aren'
t already overloaded with girly underpants.
phf: i.e. you pack it in a box (300kg max, 70kg each individual box), weigh and measure it, send them a quote. i don'
t know what the specific prices are
mircea_popescu: even if sane chassis were to be found, you can'
t find weightless power supplies (why exactly the rack provides 220V rather than directly rail is a question for another time ; and why this was'
t raised as a point at any previous time.) and there's simply no way i can have phf drag 50+ kgs of ~worthless parts across the oceans.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im tell you i'm deeply nonplussed that i discover you can'
t actually rack anything in the dc you reported walked through after renting it and the very fucking day i'm supposed to start ordering parts.
mircea_popescu: phf watch how five days ain'
t gonna even vaguely be enough sheesh.
trinque: phf's "shit, didn'
t overcharge enough for the rack" hypothesis is pretty plausible.
mircea_popescu: anyway BingoBoingo do not omit to point to the monkeys that they're now the laughingstock of the internet as the ~only "datacenter" in the world that doesn'
t have enough sense to stock a pile of mounts for the customers.
phf: it's a vacation spot, all the recommendations people send my way involve beaches, bitches and hot springs. i don'
t see why i should pack anything more than a pair of shorts
phf: you also could for example look at the gestalt of the dynamic process. rack and connectivity is their walk in bread and butter. they probably overcharged you, but not by much, because it was their first interaction with you. meanwhile dynamic process evolves. they are probably sad now that they didn'
t overcharge you more for rack, compensating on hardware (that's another alternative take on what's going on)
phf: i'm not sure what the thinking is, but they can'
t really do anything that you can'
t do, as far as importing hardware. literally they'll have to do all the same steps + potentially navigating local import specifics
BingoBoingo: <trinque> BingoBoingo: good luck buddy, and don'
t let it piss you off << This wasn'
t a euphamism. Actual spanish lesson with the Venezolana dentist turned teacher.
BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu
http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/6TNbp/?raw=true The whole email thread from this morning through their suggesting desktop power supplies to go with rackmount cases to my polite suggestion the numbers and timeline aren'
t acceptable. Fuck me, and fuck these monkeys with their SHHHH SHHH sounds. Fucking monkeys just have turned operation "Make BingoBoingo rich 2018" into a clusterfuck by entertaining the "Let's
phf: i can see that, they always have two pilots on commercial lines, so they'll just stick the two together, and it's an unwritten rule that the sane guy has to stay vigilant for the duration of the whole flight, but he can'
t say it, because he'll get fired.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-31 14:34 mp_en_viaje: so no, protected mode hasn;'
t become because it offered. the pantsuit decided it must be, and therefore prevented the non-mongoloid child from offering.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-08 20:40 trinque: PRETTY FUCKIN CONVENIENT ISN'
T IT
phf: i've not really heard about jordan until i came to u.s., and then from the usual suspects, so i didn'
t feel inclined to read him