mircea_popescu: "CyberBunker's lawyers later discovered that the police had indeed sent officers to the bunker for what they claimed was a “routine check” and that nothing out of the ordinary had taken place. When CyberBunker's lawyers suggested that the surveillance footage could be put online, the police department then quickly offered to pay to repair the damage caused to the fence.

mircea_popescu: dat phonecall lol. like a chick stood up on a date, only lulzier.

mircea_popescu: e bunker with a battering ram. It must not have occurred to the officers that the blast doors were designed to withstand a 20 megaton nuclear explosion from close range. When the SWAT team realized that the door was not being opened for them, they throw flashbangs and take other actions to draw attention. The surveillance footage shows quite a lot of activity at this point. On the other side of the blast doors, no one

mircea_popescu: Once the SWAT team reached the bunker's blast doors, they 'knock' to announce their presence. It is unclear exactly what they say, as no sound is recorded from the surveillance system. CyberBunker is equipped with an advanced Intruder Detection System (IDS), however due to a testing drill the previous night the IDS system was accidentally left in the inactive mode. Two SWAT officers are seen to hit the blast door of th ☟︎

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty much the only thing about a dc location is if it's on a ring or not.

mircea_popescu: bounce 8k sqft underground is a respectable wine cellar.

mircea_popescu: or else he wins other's money. to get a jackpot large you need a bunch of idiots to play a bad odds gamre for a long time.

mircea_popescu: but very congested places it can run significantly more, and some (esp new) places may be giving it away free for a long commit

mircea_popescu: jurov that's a reseller.

mircea_popescu: jurov depends a lot where and for how long you're getting it, really.

mircea_popescu: jurov so if a business isn't insta-cash positive it shouldn't exist ?

mircea_popescu: buy 10gpps, put a rack in there, forget it.

mircea_popescu: jurov a) most dcs that are even half decent don't charge for ddos ; b) those that do rent you fixed pipe anyway

mircea_popescu: dr_love basically it's a marketing wrapper on top of a dice site. best work as a promoter then i guess.

mircea_popescu: dr_love so it's a dice meets gem site ?

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's a flawed premise. collective security, baby.

mircea_popescu: dr_love how is this different from a dice site ?

mircea_popescu: great, up until rg went on a drinking binge or w/e it was he did

mircea_popescu: thus creating a single point of failure. which people can evaluate for trust.

mircea_popescu: a liability could be a responsibility.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla best i can tell, all someone needs to do is a) be a sysadmin and b) colocate a few boxes in a decent dc

mircea_popescu: lol isn't he a tad late ? but yeah

mircea_popescu: "All those haters that come in here with economic models and charts telling us it's impossible; all the hit pieces penned by pros like Krugman telling us to 'grow up' - none of them really quite grasp that there could possibly be a group of people who have the audacity to sit around their hallowed poker table without needing to win."

mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE you know people have been clamoring for a bitcoin host for a while.

mircea_popescu: a hey. good for you.

mircea_popescu: what do you do for a living anyway ?

mircea_popescu: cazalla few months ago, they had this embarassing moment when they sent the same deposit address to anyone asking for a deposit address for a day or two

mircea_popescu: vrag was iirc a mortar man

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in a parking lot, http://sarademcutoti.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/577513_301766546573169_885425518_n.jpg

mircea_popescu: but no, he quit brokering many months before that, an' he we were sort-of working on a project but apparently never went anywhere.

mircea_popescu: mthreat it's a common complaint

mircea_popescu: looking at things from a distance always helps. "oh, you wish to tell me that if we make this bar so that anyone can come in and not pay a cover charge it'll be cooler ?"

mircea_popescu: which is what "if everything gives every which way you got postmodern us, ie, a mess." is saying.

mircea_popescu: so far what i got from your position is, "curious how the market adjusts the price of the oil barrel, but not what a barrel consists of"

mircea_popescu: that'd be unrelated. can we discuss one thing at a time ?

mircea_popescu: if everything gives every which way you got postmodern us, ie, a mess.

mircea_popescu: gotta have some fixed points to have a working equilibrium

mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, it's kind-of amusing to me that the Krawisz fellow KNOWS about gavin's ideas to reduce block propagation from a function of size to a fixed value

mircea_popescu: what they opine as to how either of those should work, well... i'm a believer in free speech just as much as the next guy.

mircea_popescu: anyway, got a meeting. we can resume usgavin and the five fail dwarves discussion later.

mircea_popescu: fucking shocking, 5 "actual" economists found that agree inflation is a good idea, and if anything is naturally uninflationary, adding it in is the tits.

mircea_popescu: they didn't make bitcoin. they don't get to join later on and get a seat at the table.

mircea_popescu: "Why are you lying ?" is a good start. "Why are you acting as if Bitcoin were a USG project ? It's not, you are."

mircea_popescu: herpy-derp-a-derp, such a valid argument that is, really.

mircea_popescu: dude perspective's a bitch. it's almost like you can make no useful judgement about anything of note from having spent half a weekend in some rnadom town