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mircea_popescu: or how the us turned itself from
a world power into
a competitor for nigeria.
Apocalyptic: it requires
a brain, and it's getting expensive to fond one these days
mircea_popescu: but if you're claling your marginal business "
A start-up" you're basically begging to work for free
mircea_popescu: or to put it in another perpsective, if you're in any hurry either your product isn't in
a good enough market or your financial structure is shit.
xe4l: sadly, as much as is I love building the perfect thing on the first go, it's not terribly pheasable unless it's
a b2b business
xmj: well that's
a shame.
xmj: You do not think about hardware until you get to
a point where you can reasonably say you've run into scaling issues.
xmj: Naphex: no, thoughts like that right in the beginning are expensive, spin up two-three VPS until you have
a customer base to warrant and pay for those thoughts.
Naphex: and they will have
a big sec status on their servers
xe4l: github actually has
a decent setup these days
mircea_popescu: the universe where
a heroic twentysomething starts leinterwebs bizniss is
a very interesting fictional metaverse. we revel in retelling the stories of adventure and glory much like some women enjoy watching telenovellas.
xmj: mircea_popescu: if you do
a startup, with an idea in mind -- highlevel one -- and let yourself get distracted by hardware/network issues right in the beginning
xe4l: most banks of
a nice hardy shell and
a gooey interior
mircea_popescu: xe4l: can always get
a cage at EQ and swap the locks out << actually most midrange dcs don't let you swap locks out
mircea_popescu: Naphex: jurov: i have
a whole cluster of servers :p secret keys run on encrypted hardware, servers run bare and have several layers of security & apis for it. << i wager someone paid for
a lot of brazilian waxing so far.
jurov: lol when i got for first time
a (rented) car with automatic gear
mircea_popescu: i wonder what % of github traffic can actually boot
a physical machine in any arbitrary os provided they get the distro.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, give them
a link to that team of muppets, lemme find it
mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc coinjoin was gmaxwell's idea originally. ended up in
a lengthy discussion with midnightmagic over its dismerits
a year ago
fluffypony: what you really want is
a VB.net developer with an economics background
fluffypony: because when you want
a cryptographically sound solution to anonymity
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, what i like is how "
a core dev" is dropping the use of his actual name.
mircea_popescu: and even if you do make it huge, the ops will just start charging you for THEIR carry capacity, which you've now made
a scarce resource through your managerial incompetence)
assbot: Ozziecoin comments on PSA: Don't fall for Darkcoin's deceiving marketing and pump and dump. It's just
a copy of CoinJoin (created by
a Bitcoin core dev, for Bitcoin), and does not give perfect anonymity.
mircea_popescu: (you must offer equal capacity, which has
a carrying cost on the books
mircea_popescu: pankkake, economics are economics. i get that the large peering networks mostly peer for free, but that "free" is
a hidden cost
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I'll be writing them in Swift << and in
a little while you can be known as rapedpony
xe4l works for
a very fast growing cloud hosting company
fluffypony: xe4l: last year I had to reindex
a large database table (
a necessary evil occasionally). I thought to offload it to
a VPS provider, Linode or DigitalOcean or someone, so as to avoid needing to choke my db server. Needless to say, 12 hours in they shitcanned the VPS slice because of "excessive resource usage".
xe4l: I doubt theres
a single site in the alexa top 250 that runs purely off of cloud without basically purchasing the equiv of
a physical box, eg: AWS provisioned vps
mircea_popescu: dub: im struggling with how this person is profiting from all this manip^HHHrket making << i don't see how it could be
a single person, it makes no sense
xe4l: run my main db on
a vps, but I would run
a bunch of read slaves, web servers, etc
xe4l: there are quite
a few inexpensive cloud providers
fluffypony: is that
a VPS of any measurably decent performance
Naphex:
a dc should have proper ddos mitigations, and solutions for ddos/dos. and the worst case scenario they should cut your upstream
xe4l: there's
a large disparity in the skillset of people with
a devops
Naphex: and some coders and
a designer
Naphex: you better hire
a sysadmin
xe4l: The trick is to have your dynamic capacity all on the cloud and use the hardware for things requring
a high degree of trust
xe4l: can always get
a cage at EQ and swap the locks out
Naphex: so you better make sure if its serious you pick
a very good datacenter, with protection and other several high profile customers
xmj: jurov: saltstack is brilliant if you want
a master/client setup with at least one master configuring multiple clients
Naphex: well, don't know how much of
a need it is
Naphex: jurov: i have
a whole cluster of servers :p secret keys run on encrypted hardware, servers run bare and have several layers of security & apis for it.
pankkake: why would you use
a different distro?
xmj: Do you run
a binary linux distribution like Fedora/EL6,7/Centos, Debian, Ubuntu, ...?
Naphex: why would you do anything on
a hypervisor you don't control is beyond me.
jurov: you're up to
a call to missouri, have you seen it?
lobbes: It is
a shitstorm in that thread.
kakobrekla: interesting asciilifeform , you really have seen it all, and too bad you didnt link me
a week ago. :)
decimation: re: dataflow: I've been browsing the academic papers on "dataflow" computers. Most of them are crazy "C machine" and "Dataflow sidecar" hybrids. Makes as much sense as putting
a massive aircraft engine in
a car: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJn7LHE83cc
decimation: I'm interested in the lightning suppression, I live in
a lightning-prone area and I want to take precautions against harm. I'm not convinced by the "protect" LED in cheapass MOV devices
decimation: yeah, wires exist for
a reason I guess.
assbot: Not all programmers are alike:
a language rant | Locklin on science
decimation: the 'trick' is the airgapped shunt that causes the secondary to saturate, thus causing the output voltage to remain in
a narrow range. It's interesting to me that this has been known since 1940, is ideal for computers, and is apparently mostly unknown amoung computer users
BingoBoingo: I guess that's fair, there's been
a lot of blood
BingoBoingo: "This bait and switch defense procurement situation, one that has become eerily circular in nature, is
a much larger threat to national security then uneducated men in mud huts with AK-47s.
A foe which we have spent trillions targeting and killing for over the last decade with little to show for it."
http://aviationintel.com/disgrace-navys-f-35b-carrier/ mircea_popescu: once bb's pot increases significantly i'll bug him to do something similar, but for now
a small wildcard is all the spritz needed
mircea_popescu: mike_c, o wow, how is bitbet negastive ? she lost
a bet meanwhile ?
danielpbarron: (not that
a "zero your balance" is
a good solution to that0
mircea_popescu: idiot. no, it's not part of it. it's part of every govt agency even remotely arguably connected trying to get
a slice
mircea_popescu: Reached by phone Monday afternoon, Slaughter was unaware of Kander's news release but said it must have been part of
a settlement his lawyers were working on with the office. He said he also expects to have to pay
a fine.
mircea_popescu: in summa : you are approaching it as
a hard problem. it's not, it's quite soft
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: benkay: Are they supposing I want to fuck
a hurricaine? << imagine the suction.
mircea_popescu: you and everyone else capable of safely keeping
a bitcoin for
a year
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: kickstarter: lol. suggested experiment: open
a kickstart, with the headline 'pay my living expense for 20 years. in the end, you might get
a useful gizmo if i live that long.' << you're making jurov's argument for him tho.
mircea_popescu: there are reasons
a good manager is worth more than
a good anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov: smbx had perverse incentives (usg funding that appeared bottomless - until it died suddenly. reagan's 'star wars.') << best way to sink
a good start-up is
a bad revenue source early on.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as
a reddit/facebook/whatever social media site, bitfinex is just as good as any one of
a thousand third hand niche things
mike_c: "The Bitfinex trading platform is currently in
a beta phase (testing phase). The platform is owned and operated by iFinex Inc. (Bvi), and during this final phase the platform is being prepared to operate under
a fully licensed model."
dub: surely it only affects
a handfull of aspies and retards doe
FabianB: increases probability for being
a gain next check
mircea_popescu: jurov, that was
a fact
a month or so ago. meanwhile, prolly lost interest, limiting themselves to one intern "checking the weblogs"
nubbins`: seems like
a gross omission on their point otherwise
BingoBoingo: Best case when AM1 falls to or Below IPO, maybe friedcat buys everyone out
a la Erik and takes it private.
mircea_popescu: Braniff Airways Flight 542,
a Lockheed L-188 Electra, registration N9705C, was
a scheduled domestic flight from Houston, Texas, bound for New York with scheduled stops in Dallas and Washington, D.C.. On September 29, 1959, 23 minutes into the 41-minute flight from Houston to Dallas Love Field, the aircraft disintegrated in mid-air approximately 3.8 miles (6.1 km) southeast of Buffalo, Texas killing everyone on board.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, no, as in, without having made
a specific appointment to discuss bitcoin and urbit
fluffypony: and not
a mountain or whatever the fuck it is