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Mocky: i have a coin to repay mircea_popescu and now that i have what with to trade, expect to be a continuous bidder on piz auctions ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 07:20 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917392 << wait, you ~had~ already found some, or am i woefully misunderstanding ? was this merely a theoretical possibility you were relying on because saw on state media ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 17:30 mircea_popescu: when i was about six or so, visiting some relatives who had a farm, i discovered a romanian bareneck (kind of chicken) chick drowning in the sty efflux. so i picked it out, and it was a pet for a year or so and then made a great soup. rooster, too.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 07:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917383 << so hopefully you had enough sense to create relationships and undermine the usgistani "platform" rather than the converse, undermine your own sanity to feed usgistani "platform" your own guts ?
deedbot: mircea_popescu has not rated stjohn_piano_2.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-05 22:19 asciilifeform: Mocky: if i had bottle of 'become mircea_popescu' elixir, i'd share with you a glass. but as it is e.g. asciilifeform was entirely unable to get hold of bitcoin at all for many yrs, when could not find anyone who had it + would not deal with goxisms
a111: Logged on 2019-06-05 17:59 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman , other maffs folx ^
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-05 21:05 mircea_popescu: cuz it's never dark, from inside. the amusing situation of classical eschatology is that lucifer simply forked the chain, and as best can tell is a very credible and not at all falen angel.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu: I suspect the game will ...break if one plays it seriously; like most anything "done"
asciilifeform: Mocky: if i had bottle of 'become mircea_popescu' elixir, i'd share with you a glass. but as it is e.g. asciilifeform was entirely unable to get hold of bitcoin at all for many yrs, when could not find anyone who had it + would not deal with goxisms ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-05-21 22:21 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: it doesn't make sense to put delicate items acquired with much suffering like BingoBoingo's cedula immediately into the statists hopper (localbitcoins demands "an ID" to post ads), when one can pick from the sale offers and operate on the side of the transaction where id is not asked for
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman , other maffs folx ^ ☟︎
asciilifeform recalls another mircea_popescu portrait of subj, http://trilema.com/2017/i-think-they-might-be-overdoing-it-in-places/
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 14:07 mircea_popescu: the basic, and really only, rule of hermeneutics is : that then you've understood a text when, far from its shortcomings appearing inexplicable errors, they become the actual pillars upon which the damned thing is constructed, and what originally seemed to you sensible and structural takes its true place as accidental.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-05 09:52 mircea_popescu: stjohn_piano_2, dude, fix your headcase. #1 if you're on enough to egostroke, you're on enough to answer a question
a111: Logged on 2019-06-05 09:52 mircea_popescu: and now, of course, has nothing to say.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thank you.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 21:36 mircea_popescu: generous.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, when the boxes get here and there's better price information I can invoice for however many months the gap between now and delivery ended up being.
asciilifeform: this way mircea_popescu & diana_coman dun need to rebuild boxes and suffer down times
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: well recall thread, mircea_popescu will be taking up the existing units, and at the ordinary colo rate
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu : also i thought this was to go when the new boxen delivered ?
deedbot: BingoBoingo canceled mircea_popescu invoice 13
BingoBoingo: !!cancel-invoice mircea_popescu 13
deedbot: Invoiced mircea_popescu 0.6393680302 << S.MG Colocation, two servers through June 2020 (141.7*2*12)/5319 USD
BingoBoingo: !!invoice mircea_popescu 0.6393680302 S.MG Colocation, two servers through June 2020 (141.7*2*12)/5319 USD
deedbot: BingoBoingo canceled mircea_popescu invoice 12
BingoBoingo: !!cancel-invoice mircea_popescu 12
a111: Logged on 2014-11-16 05:31 mircea_popescu: The brilliant Finnish-Canadian computer science professor / blogger Ilkka Kokkarinen has taken down his popular blog, presumably to keep his job after his campus newspaper noticed his heterodox views. His skepticism about the intellectual consistency of lesbian-feminist theory and practice would appear to have been his biggest crime.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: ely neurotic self inspection, of which "transgenderism" of the alice/leah flavour is very strictly a subset, not to mention plainer nonsense of the kind displayed by eg. richard kulisz (see http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#selection-847.0-851.1) or for that matter "lesswrong". between psychotic and neurotic, the beta boi is forever floating on this sea of delusional "you are special and perfect the way y
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The box swap sounds like a deal, would you like the colocation invoiced annually on both boxes or would you like the test box invoiced quarterly or monthly instead?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if dun care, the 1ps type is slightly cheaprr
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've begun the search. will send you spec prior to buying
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, sounds like The Right Thing
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 13:19 mircea_popescu: i was thinking copies of extant, so as to give them to pizarro in exchange, see ? this way i don't have to move hdds
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the problem approached, is how to house 9000 heathens on 1 machine. the currently used shared hosting system presumes certain amount of literacy (and cooperation) from the tenants, it is simple unix accts thing.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 13:17 mircea_popescu: diana_coman, so should i release the monthly then ?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 10:34 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1916971 << conceivably useful yes.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 10:25 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916939 << he's actually highly functioning socially, perceived as annoying by the wallflower anxiousgirlies but otherwise...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you may recall, there is a small supply of spare FG here, these can go in your machines.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no reason to hurry.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you'll prolly want hds, tho, as spares (they can travel inside boxes)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i will then start to search for these very same.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo incidentally imho would be good thing for piz, even if mircea_popescu ends up w/ cheaper subscription, cuz then vacates 2 piz boxen and these can be advertised
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 10:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, would you be amenable to carry 2 replacement boxes on yoru trip over, that i buy, and give them to pizarro in lieu of these two, convert them to colo only ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917014 << asciilifeform's orcistan transport service lives to serve ! mircea_popescu do you happen to have these machines already ? theoretically could stop in cr an' pick up etc ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 10:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916957 << i guess i'm amenable to this. though of course why i sold machines to rent them for multi-years is then anyone's guess...
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 10:31 mircea_popescu: diana_coman, do we actually need/use both as such and ~permanently ?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 05:03 mircea_popescu: meanwhile in delicious nonsense, https://pastebin.com/h5HxRWa9 ; moneyshot : "A thought we had a few weeks ago during one of our low-low mood phases, that perhaps it isn't worth pursuing bodily separation since we all already know each so well and can basically form new sentient agents in this brain on a whim, with a second's effort; namely, that if any one of separated into a new brain or some other medium of mind, that a
a111: Logged on 2018-04-30 17:53 mircea_popescu: pinoy actually uses shanonizing as THE, not an, but THE intellectual mode of life.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-03 18:52 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the snsa pair is (dulap & spare-dulap) are snsa boxen
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu can you think of any other applications for this, that'd make it worth the sweat ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 22:29 mircea_popescu: thatg aside, the more pressing problem is that we don't have a proper pdf-decrufter, (random moron with delusions of self-impoirtance failed to be useful, as you prolly recall), and if we're going to do something by hand this'd be more sorely needed than that.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-26 17:41 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm going to roll the FGs into the rental cost of the machine; 20% markup for a year paid up front for the whole kit and caboodle if that passes with you
a111: Logged on 2018-02-26 17:30 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'll take 'em in exchange for the note at 0.5. ty!
a111: Logged on 2018-02-25 16:38 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how about you lot take three dozen FGs at .45 ? (cash ; or at your option .5 BTC worth of convertible bonds for s.nsa).
a111: Logged on 2018-04-03 19:42 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes cash or bonds, though for the latter no actual discount was discussed in teh nsa boardroom. but i guess i'll go with .4 off the cuff and hope nobody throws gavels at me.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-03 18:11 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i wasn't initially going to say anything besides "nay" ; but hey, pizarro's a friend of ours, so : nsa would sell the spare machine for cost, which is about .371. comes with two fgs installed and free shipping.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> or which is the s.mg owned machine ? << NSA owns its machines, S.MG rents its machines from Pizarro. ben_vulpes bought boxes rented to S.MG through incurring a debt S.NSA, visible in Pizarro statements in the liability tables http://pizarroisp.net/2019/05/06/pizarro-april-2019-report/#selection-13.5592-13.5655
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the snsa pair is (dulap & spare-dulap) are snsa boxen ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only smg box (pair, primary & spare) was sold to piz
a111: Logged on 2019-06-03 11:47 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-02#1916860 << usually just disguised campaign donations, "i didn't give $$$ to party, i bought ticket". very popular dnc strategy in the us, since the 70s at the least.
asciilifeform: this being said, BingoBoingo plox to make sure mircea_popescu is getting the correct price based on the current conversion factor.
asciilifeform: grr frustrating. BingoBoingo mircea_popescu when either of you wakes up, plox to say which 2 boxes it were.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo : i can't think of any objection, identical irons , leased over identical interval, oughta cost same
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Let me know what you think of this proposal.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 02:52 mircea_popescu: suppose you folk re-invoice me for something more like .4 ?
a111: Logged on 2018-07-25 02:29 mod6: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : Ben and I worked out a prorated amount for UY3 for the month of July. It comes to a total of 19 days, which will amount to: 0.03542985
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The base price for 1 year of hosting is 1700.40 USD (12 months * 141.70 USD)
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 13:29 mircea_popescu: o look at this BingoBoingo : http://btcbase.org/log/2015-02-19#1024573 << PICHING!!! i didn't notice it backl then...
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had a piece, where described. there's people walking around with the meat equiv. of a box with hosed boot partition, and generally 'reformat' of meat is enuff of a laborious proposition that not worth the reqd effort
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 10:52 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-31#1080260 << this question still stand asciilifeform ?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 06:01 mircea_popescu: https://pastebin.com/raw/N9v7gVfZ << this shit is too lulzy to not preserve ; last 5 lines totally make it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're stuck in mental equiv. of 'sokoban' level with all the crates parked in corners.
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: 1785.57149306
a111: Logged on 2015-02-18 12:32 brendafdez: ;;later tell mircea_popescu You're squatting the channel ;) http://pastebin.com/YNqdarX7 I could be running some shady business there instead...
diana_coman: mircea_popescu: that's true, replacing it by parts indeed; not sure it's possible to do much any other way either.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 04:53 mircea_popescu: was this gabriel laddel then ?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 03:45 mircea_popescu: i choose the later, because... here's the problem : there's no because, properly speaking. "oh, hurr durr i want to own my games" wtf does this mean in a net context ? yes, i still have and still play homm2 / mm6 / gothic / whatever. but how the fuck are you going to meaningfully save a multiplayer game ? should they send me the server too ?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 04:20 mircea_popescu: https://www.scamner.com/check/scamner.com << even better. ALSO not recommended. roflmao.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 10:38 mircea_popescu: if they're not talking, it therefore follows they're praying.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-31 02:23 asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ... brendafdez -1 Highly intelligent and utterly self-destructive << wai wat, was this in-channel? iirc this person simply vanished into thin air without so much as a squeak
a111: 2015-03-25 <brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: ty, I'll hit the math a bit, sleep a bit, and propose something tomorrow that is a more sustainable way to price machines going forward than doing a bunch of log archaeology evey machine.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-25 02:38 mircea_popescu: mod6 go ahead an' invoice. i recall now seeing something like this b4 but no invoice either.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ima pay the 8-11 set of invoices for good time's sake, but gimme a break, if it's monthly it gotta track SOMETHING ? they're all the same amt. << The log I based the one server off of starts here http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-24#1785933 and the other starts here http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-25#1837621 I am more than happy to work something less ambiguous than those two stretches of log out. ☝︎☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-01 11:34 mircea_popescu: hmm, so since i'm building a gaming station... what's the republican notions for gfx-heavy os ?
a111: Logged on 2019-05-30 19:20 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: got it, worx. plox to deedbot-invoice asciilifeform (i'ma have to refill the piggy before i can fill it tho).
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: 307.3804
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: 198
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: 2261
a111: Logged on 2019-06-01 12:49 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'd much rather dump a package deal than baby this box. i figure the grand or so it cost ain't worth an hour of my time
asciilifeform will eagerly read mircea_popescu's review if he tries this or similar
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in principle. ( this is where asciilifeform confesses that he has never in entire life eaten game other than from warez... )
diana_coman: now I'm rather curious if mircea_popescu finds any "other half" re games, lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microshit's , i meant
asciilifeform: as i understand mircea_popescu's own eulora knows what to do with 3d card tho ( can't picture why would need whole 1070 however , for such )
asciilifeform: ( naturally winblows will eat the 1070, but i dun imagine mircea_popescu was asking 'which winblows to get' lol )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thinking re 'gfx-heavy' : might be interesting to try the recent years' opensores nvidia driver. (supposedly it actually worx.) perhaps send a pet to set it up.