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mircea_popescu: well, seeing how they were supposed to deliver in 2014, the more likely scenario is that this was someone's future kickstarter.
mircea_popescu: the finest tolerance motors i know of are in the 0.0x% range of consumption.
mircea_popescu: this notwithstanding, i did spend SOME time in the lab
mircea_popescu: my penis is 12 inches long, fits vaginas up to 11.624 inches !
mircea_popescu: who the fuck specifies one value to the decal and the other to three decimal points ?!
mircea_popescu: "Power consumption: @full duty cycle : 45,000 Watts (all on). " wtf do they use 40kw for loads of 50kgs max ?!
mircea_popescu: that's probably the most effectual anti-"seo" thing google came up with. leverage people's laziness, if it's easy for "expert" to claim success and for empoyer to "verify" it, everyone's happy.
mircea_popescu: there's some rock band and whatnot. i guess there's just about 0 overlap between search results by now.
mircea_popescu: anyway fwiw i never saw that conveyance thingee, ever.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i originally had suspension points before the interesting.
mircea_popescu: come join me past the emerald river, in that lovely field where the only fate worse than failure
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.
mircea_popescu: that'll so totally show it to the irs. not only they get paid, they get to pleasantly waste more time doing it!
mircea_popescu is looking forward to the "help me pay my income tax with pennies!" kickstarter.
mircea_popescu: well, that's pretty much the end of this discussion then.
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: that's nice, but i'm not looking for you to help me anything. if you figure this is what you want to do with your life, stick around, with the logs, build your rep, then go do it.
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.
mircea_popescu: nobody's in charge of everything, we're just sitting here talking talks and stuff.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> depends, but in general about 1mbps or thereabouts.
mircea_popescu: never actually observed all that significant ddos. at some point it was wp rpc calls even.
mircea_popescu: has been known to go over 10gbps, but it's never sustained.
mircea_popescu: truth be told b-a needs a shitload more business kinda people.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do i know, not like is in the wot or anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for all i know dude went binge drinking sold the servers to pay strip club bill.
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe my recent "go burn down missouri state" article got some random dude imprisoned.
mircea_popescu: well, just the owner. the chicks still around being all weirded out by the novel situation.
mircea_popescu: if you try and ping by domain name it can't resolve ; if you try and ping by ip it can't route.
mircea_popescu: lobbes "a whole cluster" means, the front server, the db server, the backup server, nameservers, the works.
mircea_popescu: it only becomes "two drunks" once there's nothing else left to say.
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.
mircea_popescu: turned out it was run by random addict and it's contemptible friends
mircea_popescu: iuf you recall, like the first mpex listing was a fucking hoster
mircea_popescu: besides the point anyway. datacenters in the us or its phriends are off the table anyway. you all may feel just fine about paying the usg, but i'm not.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how to put it more plainly, nor does it seem likely the effort's not wasted.
mircea_popescu: it ALWAYS fails. always. it has never yet worked, it has never yet failed.
mircea_popescu: if you imagine this strategy works in any case, shape or form, you've just not lived long enough.
mircea_popescu: let me give you a pro tip : pretty much all women i currently own were involved in a relationship when we met. two thirds of them were involved in a relationship with a dude who "can't X until Y".
mircea_popescu: and i will particularly not stand to this absolutely noxious attitude.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamental. if we, for whatever value of "we" you wish to choose, can not and do not transplant one on the other, we will have failed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is not some sort of minimally interesting / not such a big deal / whatever thing.
mircea_popescu: but whether it occurs natrually or not, IT MUST BE DONE
mircea_popescu: it is plain as day to me that there exists no natural occurence of "we'll just on our own power take this from there and this from here".
mircea_popescu: you also have the retarded kids, working outside of the west, but ALSO outside of the actual work ethic of the west.
mircea_popescu: it's that the market is very sharply divided : you have the actual professionals, part of an actually professional tradition. these are, without exception, white men living in the west. and consequently they suffer from the mental diseases incumbent on watching too much dead empire tv.
mircea_popescu: yes. well, if you're curious to know what i know, as a result of you know, actual immediate interraction with the thing in question,
mircea_popescu: let's not confuse actual intellectuals discussing winter/summer wheat with weirdo kids sitting on ass discussing "the truth of everything"
mircea_popescu: and there is no "classical" colo box. nor do you personally know anyone who has done this.
mircea_popescu: no, it's not like mp wanting something like thepiratebay. it's like mp wanting something like actual people at actual work doing actual business.
mircea_popescu: what "same thing" is that, and how do you know who did what and what caused who and what'll happen ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> ascii_field: this is 'nyc official truth' afaik << it has to be. chiefly because "diversity" has brought nyc back into the 1800s. the early 1800s.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> if mosquito could move the virus, i and everybody i know in meatspace would be long dead. << this is a red herring. if cigarettes caused cancer the world would have ended in 1920.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> ahahahahahahaha << dun laugh, your tax dollars at work.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as confusing to the wanna-be entrepreneur as it might be, it's apparently very threatening to the wanna-be "intellectual", or whatever we call this new (hardly, lol) species of human that aims to inhabit a world of ideas.
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