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mircea_popescu: mysql db is direcylu back-up-able by copying two files. php IS FUCKING FILES ON DISK
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all blogotrons are "plain files on disk"
mircea_popescu: low staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other places, "The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now fol
mircea_popescu: why are you learning the wrong lesson andf baking php into your process
mircea_popescu: you will have to at some time backup other things than mpwp you realiose
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what is wrong with just using mysql like sane people ?
mircea_popescu: there's no ~need~ for it to work, is the important point.
mircea_popescu throws hands up, this was the available budget for pdf bs.
mircea_popescu: possible ? or i got the wrong item, who the fuck even knows.
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe the item linked cca 2015 is perfect answer. do you know which i mean or need i go spelunking for it ?
mircea_popescu: pdf can't "own" bits anymore than wikipedia can. if i drop a can of tuna in dogshit, it;s not now "dogshit brand tuna"
mircea_popescu: just re-genesis anything you happen to find and care about in a pdf as if it were your own original invention.
mircea_popescu: so imo saddling anyone with "transform pdf into sanity" is not unlike saddling the one with any other restatement of "build machine, shit in, prunes out".
mircea_popescu: and by b) i mean inept shit like "this text is a picture"
mircea_popescu: by a i mean : a zip of pngs can be presented as ".pdf" and this is legal ; just as vectored text or ascii text could.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem afaik is that pdf is a) not a format and b) not digital.
mircea_popescu: i'm perfectly willing to turn the de facto "we of tmsr do not believe anything in a pdf should ever be read" into law.
mircea_popescu: and the republic's insistent refusal to bake it, over the years since it was first specced, an entirely resounding and clear refusal of the theory.
mircea_popescu: at some point, man has to discriminate. as much sense as the woman's wail "o look, he has TOES!!! there are SOME human-like parts!!" may seem to make sense on the surface.
mircea_popescu: iirc i even put in the logs url of very fine service in this vein, back a few years ago when i still even considered i might be interested in reading something that came in a pdf.
mircea_popescu: i'll want the coin back next year. now go forth and own stupidity no more!
mircea_popescu: !!v DE9F4E16DEFA1DAE7F6B3AD1C6B075DA9ABAF6125E1A01E377B8D6240367B111
mircea_popescu: now this out of the way : your credit's still good, you want a coin or so on your marker ?
mircea_popescu: !!v 76448389511874988173ADAC8EE65CEE8A9B2AF07975B3F38E34412E988550DA
mircea_popescu: Mocky imagine, never before was i tempted to type a nick by hand, so we never knew.
mircea_popescu: trinque so the payment he references is actually dead, and i should re-do it (and in redoing it say "mocky" not "Mocky" so you can test) ?
mircea_popescu: trinque sorry, it's not clear to me. should i do something ? what ?
mircea_popescu: !!v F654A0B4F8FCF45412A50B62FE4EAF783A6846B1D281EB8860F2C9394012F38F
mircea_popescu: Mocky didja ever get the BingoBoingo thing settled or is that distressed consequently ?
mircea_popescu: it's significantly more shameful an act to not be powerful than to go around rural train stations jacking off.
mircea_popescu: and yes, when good men forego power, all that happens is power ends up concentrated with idiots. NOTHING else.
mircea_popescu: i think he might actually be the least selfish guy here.
mircea_popescu: im also half-thinking of hiring a coupla strippers to do the housework naked for the interval.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i am half-considering getting a beach house here for a week or so, to "airbnb" any republicans who might wish to come. this sound interesting at all to anyone ?
mircea_popescu: it would be a little rich if the thing became "but mp, you said man -- responsibilities -- rhodesia ???" "yes well, sorry, beobachter did not list you on rhodesia list" "oh I SEE!!!"
mircea_popescu: but then again, we have all these autopilot magic flying information-superhighway threads... may benefit from a real jungle endpoint.
mircea_popescu: if you say you think about it i will believe you think about it. as i have believed throughout, when the fuck did i even tell you what to do until you started not doing it. if you say i will beleive, but mind it's not "honest confusion" a la earlier.
mircea_popescu: sick burn. but srsly, i don't have a problem with you using it any way you ~think~ best. but the catch is, i fucking want you to think! not just autopilot into it.
mircea_popescu: that is a definite ceiling i can absolutely place on the bit-coin
mircea_popescu: mod6 i don't think the coins will ever buy back our youths.
mircea_popescu: mod6 so the idea here being that currently fiat valuation of coins is "0.5x fountains of youth" and you're waiting for something more like 1.5x fountains of youth, ie, for it to be a superunitary number of fountains of youths ?
mircea_popescu: but, asthe saying goes, you gotta drop a hand when you know it can't win, not when you figure you can afford to lose "your" "share" of the pot. (note -- pot is NOT SHARED, and it only has an owner AFTER, never before. there's no suchj thing as pot equity, fundamentally and necessarily, which is because man-things are anti-woman-"ideas").
mircea_popescu stopped going to work altogether cca 2003, even though it was not really "work" in the sense modern zek imagines, and even though "you can have your office wherever you want, yes we'll call any of your girls to find out what cafebar that is today" and so on. and it was as fucking difficult a decision for me as for anyone ever, because "we need you" and "this shit won't work without you" (duh) and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: mod6 how about you stop going to work altogether ? what then ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why the fuck do you think i even bother with all this unpleasantness.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems to me just another costa rica, "nice people and here's their coca cola"