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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's reasonable sized ? could be a mile long for all it matters.
mircea_popescu: anyway, nioce contract to have. basically, it's a "build this many launchers and fire them continuously forever"
mircea_popescu: just give them a little assymetry allow them some limited self-righting
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would suspect they'd have a minimal sail or something
mircea_popescu: basically, if you're gonna do leo telecoms it's either 1k or go home
mircea_popescu: decimation ok, sure. but all you need is one up. having to up helps maybe some. 200 ? marginal utility decays pretty fast
mircea_popescu: and then mom asked "in what currency" and i said "doesn't matter"
mircea_popescu: i don't get something. what does having more satellites help ? you still have the same problems of intsat whether there's ten or ten thousand.
mircea_popescu: if they stacked shit that high he could have a twin brother, go whiterafting with the bitcoin godfather pair.
mircea_popescu: decimation isn't he the original "how to make a small fortune ? start with a big one" ?
mircea_popescu: this "without installing a database management system or requiring a database administrator." reads to me like "car that can be used without breaks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe wot is the pill to no longer be angry.
mircea_popescu: mats gdb is what eulora uses if that makes you feel any better.
mircea_popescu: o yeah. definitely already here but not evenly distributed.
mircea_popescu: and you will be telling me about how hard it is to escape, right, because moving off windows will require "someone to provide the lost income"
mircea_popescu: which is the eventual fate of all government agencies.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, Checking 188.68.240.159 against 95 known blacklists... Listed 0 times with 0 timeouts
mircea_popescu: well not exactly. he was more into the "why should i punish google for google fucking up my email ?!?!?! i just want email to work!!11"
mircea_popescu: interesting how the twerps keep changing name, too. i don't seem to recall this particular extortionist.
mircea_popescu: the odds of me "visiting" some random agent in the "danegeld to email" scamring ? zilch.
mircea_popescu: sa-ip4tset.blagr.emailsrvr.com=127.26.0.2 Cloudmark CSI. Please visit
mircea_popescu: 554 5.7.1 ACL dns_rbl; Client host [188.68.240.159] blocked using
mircea_popescu: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<support@cgcookiemarkets.com>:
mircea_popescu: "weird bad, stupid good! for weird is weird and stupid smells like the home stable!11"
mircea_popescu: running off with payments and then blocking emails is a perfectly legit strategy.
mircea_popescu: apparently I'm the shady one for not using paypal and being romanian.
mircea_popescu: in other news : apparently blender has this official "marketplace" thing, which lists various assets for sale. so I go for a 16 bucks buy, on the theory that let's check it out. coinbase, of course. my payment is uncredited. they have a support email for just this case, i write to them... my email is rejected.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno how documented it was, not caring for such thing at that age. i know however that the amiga guy never made anything like a game.
mircea_popescu: apple managed to somehow remain THE SAME assholes in spite of changing everything around jobs
mircea_popescu: and while i agree with you re the distinction, i believe it's without a difference.
mircea_popescu: no, im comparing the amiga i knew (early 90s) to the apple i saw (late 90s onwards)
mircea_popescu: they stand in my mind because when i first heard of apple i thought "hey... this is like... amiga ?"
mircea_popescu: we find the following things suspicious : romania, paywalls, and bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: there's in fact a heap of identical assholes that never made it, which nobody seemsd to ever know about.
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