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mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782359 << hey, my car has a flask of rum in the net behind the front seat. and i drink it, too. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782342 << kinda the idea, if i bother to send a librarian over to orcistan to start an isp, ima just as well challenge established belief. it's just sane business management. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782339 << sadly, i dun see how bbisp could provide platter. for one thing, it takes way the fuck more power. for the other, it simply dun work for one of the more important republican apps, teh trb. it's just... not there. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782333 << hey, we get systemd in, right ? the reboots' gonna be so fast you won't even notice them ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782329 << boxes with a pile of ram are not lowend by any definition of the term. ram is pretty much the only thing. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782314 << well, i'd expect airflow at all times driven by the dc HVAC. i dunno you'd want to buy space in a dc with no internal airflow. i've also never been in one that had no internal airflow. then again i've never been in a clean room that had no internal airflow either. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782311 << but the firm expectation based on no experience is how alf gets in trouble like...daily. why copy what dun work from him ? ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-02-02 16:35 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> holyfuq, konsoomer towers in racks in dc << Cargo cult
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782304 << uruguay, dood. not fucking washington. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779553 & so fucking happy to have any business AT ALL after the impenetrable cloud of sheer imbecility they've surrounded themselves with... ☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782302 << the cpu is worth 10% of the actual rig (disk, memory). it's the part getting fried for getting more out of the rig, if anything is. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782296 << yes. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782297 << the thing changed lots in 20 years. for isntance, there's actual bios support for the procedure by now. it's a lot like say roller skating, they got special safety gear and competitions and purpose-made plywood for the backyard, it's not the 80s anymoar sorta thing. ☝︎☝︎
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1782051 << fwiw I'd be vehehehry interested in a bbisp $20 per month shared hosting ☝︎
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/the-incredible-productive-assets-and-unlimited-human-ingenuity-existing-in-america/ << Trilema - The incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America.
mircea_popescu: http://rackmountmart.stores.yahoo.net/ra4racfan3fa1.html << this sort of item
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> 2u is like... 8.9cm tall. you think not ? << Alright with the amd fx-8350 there are skus that some with different coolers. There the stock cooler that looks like it should not be a problem, and then there is the WRAITH special edition kooler 4Gamerz which is 80 mm high and rather tall for a 2U case. Whoever goes piling iron would be advised to watch this difference.
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1781846 << In the early searching I am wondering if a cooler will fit ☝︎
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/the-disaster-artist/ << Trilema - The Disaster Artist
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/02/apple-fails-to-segregate-data-sends-installation-and-marketing-data-to-rival-firms/ << Qntra - Apple Fails To Segregate Data: Sends Installation And Marketing Data To Rival Firms
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1782121 << equitousish exactuusing! ☝︎
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2018/02/06/two-months-in-montevideo/ << Bingo Blog - Two Months In Montevideo
a111: Logged on 2016-12-08 03:29 mircea_popescu: ex of 1B documents. Then our cost comes down to $12M/yr." << this danluu piece is the most idiotic thing i read all day. what the fuck has "cloud" done to these people that they think a 1bn index cost A MILLION A MONTH holy shit.
mod6: flu :<
BingoBoingo: <diana_coman> BingoBoingo, is the "company" having your name or isn't this between latechco and your company or what? << At present due to the painful $900 lesson my name is my company, though it is indeed a legally registered company in Uruguay. Once I have a local ID (Hopefully sometime March-April) and I make another run at the corporation (because the provisional ID cuts the passport knot) it will be [insert aculturally relevant
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2018/02/06/contract/ << Bingo Blog - Contract
mircea_popescu: https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED114/546b10da9172d.jpeg << also, i just realised i need childism too!
a111: Logged on 2018-02-06 13:27 deedbot: http://www.dianacoman.com/2018/02/06/its-only-words-and-assumptions-and-priorities-and-ouch/ << Ossasepia - Its only words and assumptions; and priorities; and ouch!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1782057 << the principal difference being that other than holding down a high responsibility tech job with a significant on-call component, ~the woman~ is also raising a child. with the flu and everything. yet somehow her shit is still dribbling out on thursdays, today as nine weeks ago. ☝︎
deedbot: http://www.dianacoman.com/2018/02/06/its-only-words-and-assumptions-and-priorities-and-ouch/ << Ossasepia - Its only words and assumptions; and priorities; and ouch! ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you gonna be there to pick him up when he lands yes ? << I can be if he asks. From there the plan is proceed to the cowork and unpack the equipment.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo aite on the power and rack cages scores. any tips you want to share with phf ? how's teh suitcase ppls do it ? << They pad things as appropriate, but they discard the original packaging. Also it is important to grab a customs form, they are on the wall on the right once you exit the duty free store zone, on the opposite side of the space is the baggage claim.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> incidentally, if trinque , phf , et al , grasp mircea_popescu's pov, and think ' asciilifeform is idjit ' , invited to explain to asciilifeform . << The problem of where to post was the easy part of the ask. Especially in light of the growing napkin doodle problem http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-03#1780678 ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well apparently this was never published. yo BingoBoingo WHY is your contract that you signed not online ? where's the wattage ? etc. << Will deturd and publish today
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo does the dc provide the racking boxes at least ? or does sheer metal have to be carried from overseas also ? << Inquiry sent, with a timeline (i.e. can be had next week)
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> BingoBoingo: why are you not rolling VAT into this pricing scheme? << I did not in that draft under the presumption taxes are another salary.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo incidentally, this rack is 19 inch or 23 inch ? << 19 inch
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo phf trinque diana_coman so i'm thinking of basically getting a dozen amd fx-8350s (because just 125w compared to say fx-9590s 220) racked in u2 mbs (say maybe ASRock 970M PRO3 ? i thinkl that fits in 2u neh ?) with 64 gb ram each and a coupla ssds ? any complaints/suggestions ? << Sounds a hell of a lot beefier than the Qntra server.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1781806 << i missed this. say what ? << Is re: Fedexing things of value for the local customs folks to decide are shady unlabeled "internet purchases", apparently that is their term of art. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1781806 << i missed this. say what ? ☝︎
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1781846 <- my only slight dislike of the amd fx is precisely higher power consumption & warming up; while fx 8350s is indeed not that bad on this account, it still consumes more than opteron 6376 afaik ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-25#1775877 << ya there it was. ☝︎
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/02/malware-exploiting-intel-cpu-hardware-vunerabilities-being-found-in-the-wild/ << Qntra - Malware Exploiting Intel CPU Hardware Vunerabilities Being Found In The Wild
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/02/us-intel-committee-releases-memo-damning-fbi-full-text/ << Qntra - US Intel Committee Releases Memo Damning FBI Full Text
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/02/what-happened-while-qntra-was-down/ << Qntra - What Happened While Qntra Was Down
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/02/online-again/ << Qntra - Online Again
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/01/qntra-s-qntr-september-2017-report/ << Qntra - Qntra (S.QNTR) September 2017 Report
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/oppression-in-spain-heavy-handed-madrid-government-suppressing-catalan-independence-referendum/ << Qntra - Oppression In Spain: Heavy Handed Madrid Government Suppressing Catalan Independence Referendum
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/russia-erupts-in-nazi-rifle-monument-scandal/ << Qntra - Russia Erupts In Nazi Rifle Monument Scandal
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/st-louis-aldermen-pass-resolution-honoring-late-heroin-trafficker/ << Qntra - St Louis Aldermen Pass Resolution Honoring Late Heroin Trafficker
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/trump-offers-earthquake-aid-to-mexico-after-mexico-renegs-on-hurricaine-aid-to-texas-terrorist-assault-on-saint-louis-continues/ << Qntra - Trump Offers Earthquake Aid To Mexico After Mexico Renegs on Hurricane Aid To Texas; Terrorist Assault On Saint Louis Continues
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/latest-bitcoin-network-difficulty-adjustment-up-19-58-percent-to-new-all-time-high-as-chicoms-push-out-local-fiatbitcoin-trading-interfaces/ << Qntra - Latest Bitcoin Network Difficulty Adjustment: Up ~19.58 Percent To New All Time High As Chicoms Push Out Local fiat/Bitcoin Trading Interfaces
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/us-president-trump-makes-first-address-to-un/ << Qntra - US President Trump Makes First Address To UN
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/actual-healines-found-on-mainstream-fake-news-publications/ << Qntra - Actual Headlines Found On Mainstream "Fake News" Publications
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/casino-robbed-amid-civil-disorder-in-st-louis/ << Qntra - Casino Robbed Amid Civil Disorder In St Louis
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/illinois-government-places-unfunded-menstrual-mandate-on-local-schools/ << Qntra - Illinois Government Places Unfunded Menstrual Mandate On Local Schools
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/media-and-clergy-orchestrated-civil-disorder-erupts-in-downtown-st-louis-after-acquittal/ << Qntra - Media And Clergy Orchestrated Civil Disorder Erupts In Downtown St Louis After Acquittal
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/pantsuits-party-reacts-to-pantsuits-book-by-capitulating-to-president-trump/ << Qntra - Pantsuit's Party Reacts To Pantsuit's Book By Capitulating To President Trump
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/usg-nsa-buggered-torrent-networks/ << Qntra - USG.NSA Buggered Torrent Networks
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/civil-unrest-continues-in-charleston-leftist-culture-warriors-move-historical-revisionism-target-to-university-founder-thomas-jefferson/ << Qntra - Civil Unrest Continues In Charleston: Leftist Culture Warriors Move Historical Revisionism Target To University Founder Thomas Jefferson
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/pantsuit-seattle-mayor-ed-murray-quits-amid-serial-child-fucking-scandal/ << Qntra - Pantsuit Seattle Mayor Ed Murray Quits Amid Serial Child Fucking Scandal
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/buttfunex-preparing-for-another-insertion-sorry-for-your-loss/ << Qntra - Buttfunex Preparing For Another Insertion: Sorry For Your Loss
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/preet-reduced-to-panhandling-disc-jockey-again-demonstrating-costs-of-opposing-republic/ << Qntra - Preet Reduced To Panhandling Disc Jockey, Again Demonstrating Costs Of Opposing Republic
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1781846 << I've been very pleased with an ASRock-based tower I built recently. ☝︎
hanbot: <asciilifeform> picture this, i even took the photos, and cropped, etc. and got stuck trying to satisfy mircea_popescu's earlier item << fwiw, i suspect organizational trouble rather'n deliberate anti-delivery here. i'll say: i spent years imagining i.e. deliberate, detailed scheduling, writing "bullet points" etc was for dumb people, and that naturally i didn't need it. and i got by for various definitions of gettin', but didn't wash in mp's com
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779933 <<< god fucking damn it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779932 << ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-01-30 23:08 mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-29#1777970 << infiniely better to keep time discipline and adjust material than to lose time discipline to adjust it to your disease.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-14 18:45 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-14#1751463 << it does exactly one fucking job. this one : diana_coman please don't talk to asciilifeform or take any further advice from him. total timewaste.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-30#1761215 << same ? ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> btw BingoBoingo , what's a 'CoWork' ? << An office arrangement where they set you up with an address suitable for local fiscal reporting. Lotta outsourced remote workers here, many of the better locals I have encountered. Place to do actual work, the hostel isn't equiped to accomodate that.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> aww poor bb lost weight! how you holding up down there ? << It beats the US, but the better my spanish gets the less impressed I am with the locals.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo in the end, did you get prices from anyone that weren't utterly ridiculous, 2x internets ? << Not for shit that isn't lowest common denominator consumer boxes. The datacenter forwarded a spreadsheet SuperMicro sent them with prices for two boxes in quantities up to 20 a piece today. Missing was any information on what the fuck the boxes were. Super Micro included model numbers that don't resolve to anything
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2018/02/01/the-boingo-isp-january-2018-monthly-statement/#comment-114635 << what's that star in there ? << Note that got cut off where I mention expenses in pesos get converted to Dosiedoes for reporting purposes.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2018/02/01/the-boingo-isp-january-2018-monthly-statement/#comment-114635 << what's that star in there ?
asciilifeform: 'The alteration of the table is currently in progress. As it is a huge table, it might take some hours to finish' << gotta wonder what is 'huge' here
asciilifeform: 'This morning, around 8 AM PST, our database for personal messages ran out of ids. We, the engineers, are to blame for not detecting this before it happened. :( We are very sorry for the inconvenience.' << gold
mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/WA60T/?raw=true << nao with official words.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781690 << might mircea_popescu share an algo for distinguishing 'joek price' from 'sane' ? i could use one ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-21#1773454 << http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-20#1773295 ☝︎☝︎
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/minigame-smg-january-2018-statement/ << Trilema - MiniGame (S.MG), January 2018 Statement
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22Volume-weighted+last+average%22 << for ready lulz
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2018/02/05/is-this-what-you-get-for-trying-to-help-the-less-fortunate/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Is this what you get for trying to help the less fortunate?
a111: Logged on 2015-02-06 19:45 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2) client companies of the state wish to be important. the market tells them to stuff it 3) government steps in... <<< see also the famous example of syntex corp. in mexico (carl djerassi!) - first mass-production of synthetic progestins, then nationalized, then gone - 'bad luck!'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-02-06#1010627 << lesser-known but imho also interesting example from 20th c americas ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781388 << looks like im about to be illegal yet again!!!1 ☝︎
jhvh1: asciilifeform: Pacific Railroad Acts - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts>; Our Documents - Pacific Railway Act (1862): <https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php%3Fdoc%3D32>; Pacific Railway Act : Primary Documents of American History (Virtual ...: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PacificRail.html>
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 03:16 asciilifeform: tell the folx expropriated by usg-cum-'private'railroads ( live <10mile of new tracks ? lose land ) about 'property right' , etc
mircea_popescu: <div class="notice_bar"><div class="ac">Unfortunately, creating new messages is currently broken. We are looking into it. Sorry. :(</div><a href="#" class="xxs un tdn i hide_notice" style="position: absolute; top: 10px; right: 10px">close</a></div> << the added element.
asciilifeform: https://youtu.be/1Ol2WJIoE0A?t=1m8s << oblig tru-to-laef hollywoodism
a111: Logged on 2015-09-03 03:21 asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260904 << i recently met a fella who cannot drink american instant coffee. breaks out in hives. and not on account of the coffee, but from having allergy to... cockroaches.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 22:54 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1731544 << everyone is, as a result of usg militant tardation. i can just drive into brazil. you -- can not. they "banned" turkish visitors, as if anyone from turkey could be arsed to go to the us ; turkey reciprocated, meaning about 70% of classical antiquity is now off limits to what in english passes for "the civilised world".
mircea_popescu: https://dexonline.ro/definitie/cotor << consider, it's a page!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781395 << ancient in this vein, http://trilema.com/2011/caviarul-si-fata/#selection-21.0-29.341 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781391 << the difference is technical, chair "threw itself" into toe, stubbing it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: the build barfs, on account of 'we #include <liquishit21.h> and but you only have liquishit19.h and it takes 3 void * args in fucksheep() but our, Improved!1, takes 5 '
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781262 << why not simply "do not permit package to demand, merely suggest priors". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781259 << i think the pill for this sort of nonsense is to nuke the dependency graph altogether, bitch may depend on what you tell it to depend on and naught else. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781255 << also acceptabru solution, i guess, yeah. ☝︎
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/no-such-labs-snsa-january-2018-statement/ << Trilema - No Such lAbs (S.NSA), January 2018 Statement
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/no-such-labs-snsa-december-2017-statement-2/ << Trilema - No Such lAbs (S.NSA), December 2017 Statement
a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 14:34 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781218 << laugh, but until today i had nfi that this mistranslation existed ! and it is still not clear to me how it was possible to come up with it while knowing that the orig referred to springs ( where the correct orig statement is true, and the bastardized -- elementarily -- not )