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mircea_popescu: ascii_field 24 hours is within range. even, maybe, a week.
mircea_popescu: software that's more friable than the hardware is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: if multi hour outages are what you need, multi hour outages are what you'll get.
mircea_popescu: stop using whatever it takes, but the idea is, if a power outage a season means it does no useful work worth the mention, we can't have it. because we no longer live in the world of our forefathers, where shit worked. even obama gets power interrupted once a year.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't fault you for ignoring them. i would fault you for "handling" an undefined concept in a weird way.
mircea_popescu: because that works now, and such nonsense counts as strategic design.
mircea_popescu: and his solution to it was a sort of "so i'll release just the tip"
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically stallman saw the problem of "if i release bitcoin then the twerps will get it and pretend to be using it, and then pretend to be improving on it and soon enough it will be indistinguishable from the sort of shit that it was made to kill. because the source of the shit drowning us is neither god nor the aliens nor unforseen circumstances - it's the lesser apes we insist on calling humans for no reason."
mircea_popescu: "open source people" used to mean something, like "burning man attendant" used to mean something. now it means something else.
mircea_popescu: just find out if you can put your hands on it and figure out if you want to.
mircea_popescu: i'm spending a lot more than 1k / mo on hosting. in fact i spend more on servers living space than on women living space, for my sins ;/
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no you know, he's saved it there because that way, if we do something fishy, the record will be left behind.
mircea_popescu: and what exactly diverge you mean ? someone offered you half a rack for 500 except if you wish to touch it it's 19500 ?
mircea_popescu: jurov im not interested in what may happen as much as im interested in taking specific reasonable measures.
mircea_popescu: jurov in general, worth asking to get very clear answers because in principle i would be interested, but i have to clearly know what i'm interested in.
mircea_popescu: jurov but to be perfectly clear, this is a deal where you physically have access to the boxes in question and nobody else touches them
mircea_popescu: that's fucking exactly what trilema needs, an annoying dinger on people's phones ffs.
mircea_popescu: am i the only one getting spam from people trying to push blog-on-app "solutions" ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc the french kid that was going to do one of the versions of the job board thing got upset and left in part because iho he was waitinfg for me.
mircea_popescu: o you didn't know ? grew upwards in larger size from previous.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or, alternatively, failing to do anything on account of waiting << i could give some examples of this, but of dubious actual substance.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and a traditional wife cooks. what's your point.
mircea_popescu: another very important chunk of the story is the fallout from the "causes not purposes" philosophy. all b-a software exists because, not for, and this is HOW we end up with things like "well we now have this v-jewel, what's it for ?"
mircea_popescu: phf more layers to it but as a first approximation yea
mircea_popescu: jurov so it would be ~600 bucks for 8u of space, then hire you to manage it and then buy the actual machines. as an upside you actually have physical access and will lock down the boxes ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c incidentally the reason i won't recite a todo list for v (and deleted alf's proposed list) is specifically because we don't even understand yet fully its implication. bitcoin-like.
mircea_popescu: in any case the concept of "democratic self management" is about as idiotic as it gets. like a one-legged chair.
mircea_popescu: moderate success rate on former, low on later, soft sort of thing anyway.
mircea_popescu: phf the way "claiming" has to date worked in b-a has been as a gubernatorial function, mostly me encouraging/discouraging people from certain projects.
mircea_popescu: if it is not, you will have rebuilt washington dc. you don't want that. dead 8yo girls from cunt explosion is much better.)
mircea_popescu: (that list MUST be kept. in one head, or a collection of heads approximable to one head.
mircea_popescu: mike_c my definition of "know each other" is, "they can navigate the who's doing what maze". that's the bar.
mircea_popescu: "use this signset to package ltc ; use this signset to package rippe" etc
mircea_popescu: in point of fact all the bitcoin-copy altcoins could just as well have run on v
mircea_popescu: mike_c understand, there's no promise that V will result in even similar bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: either they know each other so no problem, or they don't and so no problem space.
mircea_popescu: how about "people who don't know each other aren't working on the same software, no matter what they might think"
mircea_popescu: ie, a mega system deployed by billions of people in a million different nooks and crannies
mircea_popescu: no, v is the only correct solution to "windows update" problem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque that spirit is right, but it can't become a "vchain technologee in your fridge" thing
mircea_popescu is still waiting for someone to murder get a freelancer with
mircea_popescu: if this isn't proof that people pick their life, nothing is.
mircea_popescu: they're exactly your stage +2. "since we gotta have all these llcs anyway, hopw about we derp more"
mircea_popescu: reality isn't like, you pick if to be an archer or a tank like fucking wow.
mircea_popescu: the same head that yields beautiful code also yields legal arguments, yo!
mircea_popescu: you're the fucking same thing in a different color scheme already!
mircea_popescu: im telling you, whether you'll like it or not : this conversation is to me indistinguishable from conversation with blondy who has decided "she doesn't have a math head". meanwhile she has exceptionally keen eye for shoes, to a degree most math heads could not keep up.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field that was entirely a different story. he was trying to organise his coding income through a llc.
mircea_popescu: alfie stop telling yourself stories and read the book of nature instead.