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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.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but anyway, got a meeting, so we're going to continue the insanity later.
mircea_popescu: who are those people that "actually touched it" and what did they touch ?
mircea_popescu: on examination i have no fucking idea what i've been spending my time on for the past coupla hours,
mircea_popescu: what "human wave" means is that those people are going to get killed.
mircea_popescu: thanks for finally giving it the permission to be ? i guess ?
mircea_popescu: the quantification argument is really fucking stupid already. who the fuck cares if "ddos".
mircea_popescu: sometimes. some other times you mean you've just said something on the basis of self-perceived needs, not on the basis of reality.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you expect if i hired a tramp to flood my business for the insurance his story would be "he wanted to strand his wife so he could fish and have an affair" ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai you don't understand the magical power of "afaik" in defense of the holy "basic bojum".
mircea_popescu: no, to you it's unpleasant for the right reasons. to me it's unpleasant for the wrong reasons.
mircea_popescu: we kinda need to stop this conversation based on what you imagine the world could be, it's unpleasant.
mircea_popescu: "no one will insure either" "everyone will insure both to the same degree".
mircea_popescu: jurov business is business yo. everything can be fucking insured against.
mircea_popescu: dude seriously... are you currently living out of your car because basic bojum with landlords ?
mircea_popescu: because i also know what words mean and that they exist, fancy that!
mircea_popescu: and thank you very much for the credit, but if i'll actually ever need or want a "human wave", i'll fucking say that. in those words.
mircea_popescu: a) there's no "germs" and b) people have been drinking water before you were born.
mircea_popescu: stfu about how you need a robotic hand to turn on the tap to have a drink of water.
mircea_popescu: and since the demand still exists, what fill it are marginal drug addicts/teenagers/random idiots,
mircea_popescu: but it is irresponsible, bcause what's left after all that poison, is all the people for whom it'd be a great job and a great living not doing it.
mircea_popescu: because you sit there and try and convince everyone that hey, "human wave" and "basic bojum" and whatever other avatars, because you personally need to explain to yourself why you aren't doing it. the thing is that it wouldn't be your job to do ANYWAY! this needs no fucking explaining already.
mircea_popescu: "hosting market" is full of what happens after you've run your magic propaganda on a market : insane kids, and americans.
mircea_popescu: it's just people being needed that do ~well~ things you don't like and don't understand (these two not necessarily unrelated).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no human wave attack involved in all of this for the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla do you understand what psychic defenses work / what they are ?
mircea_popescu: this nonsense where "we have to x before we can y" is how ustardian women get to be 30+ and "waiting for a baby".