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mircea_popescu: ahahahaha it is up
to bank
to decide if it wants
to offer services
to rich merchant "based on its risk appetite" ? is it also open for bank
to decide if it wants
to offer services
to muslims etc ?
jhvh1: thestringpuller:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, kurdish zone population swelled 30% in
the past year, all civil servants and pashmerga salaries are in arears, and oil prices stay low.
mats: soleimani?
there's no independent verification he's in country
mircea_popescu: mats btw how's mosul ?
the beobachter surprisingly speaks of "tough resistance" and "slowed advance" ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: lol. maybe
they accept alternative "patriot dividends" as asset
mircea_popescu: his declared jp morgan fortunes were 500k
to 1mn ;
the minimum net worth for
the 4147-20 "saphire preferred signature extra hurr durr" is 25mn
mircea_popescu: Framedragger amusingly, he didn't officially report having enough with
them
to allow him
to get
that.
mircea_popescu: anyone remember
that line where asciilifeform said something like "dorks prove cryptosystem security by
the
theorem
that if it looks complicated
to
them it probably is complicated enough" ?
mircea_popescu: certainly easier. and once oyu have it in, adding
the other adds no utility.
Framedragger: true. *unless you have both* (so you have ceiling on
time). but at
that point... yeah ok, cronjob is easier and better, heh.
mircea_popescu: very simple
to show it's better : stale-while-revalidate will show arbitrarily old data
to some users ; periodic-recalculate will never show data older
than
the period.
Framedragger: maybe it's just a matter of having cronjob hit server in intervals which are smaller
than cache expiry
time.
Framedragger: i don't know if it's better, but yeah a cronjob would indeed work. *however*, you
then may not get around
those exceptional cases where client requests page which is still processing from cronjob request - and cache already expired. unless you set it
to be
tightly
timed i guess?
scriba: Logged on 2016-10-18: [04:38:11] <mircea_popescu> now it does. what hapopens i suspect is
that
the queue for
the cache becomes overlong,
then when a requyest hits
the machine starts processing it,
takes > 30 s or w/e it is,
the connection
timeouts
Framedragger:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161018/#23 << it is a pity
that nginx caching mechanism does not support stale-while-revalidate - which is: if client requests page which hasn't expired in cache, serve from cache; if expired in cache, serve (the stale version) from cache, and update *in
the background*.
this is RFC 5861. apparently supported in newer varnish
tho.
ben_vulpes: mega promisetronics in urbit docs: informal conventions designed
to motivate a healthy ownership structure "
mircea_popescu: so could
the cache be reconstructed houry or somesuch
to avoid
this ?
mircea_popescu: now it does. what hapopens i suspect is
that
the queue for
the cache becomes overlong,
then when a requyest hits
the machine starts processing it,
takes > 30 s or w/e it is,
the connection
timeouts
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform phuctor/stats just
times out. i suspect
this happens A LOT. nething we can do about it ?
scriba: Logged on 2016-10-18: [04:09:26] <ben_vulpes> "the “large majority†of
the rise was driven by births
to foreign-born women."
trinque: the cycles in
this graph boggle
trinque: gotta have
them
to give welfare so
they can be
taxed, or something
mircea_popescu: anyway. german state/govt has a point : peons are replaceable. if
they won't fuck -
there's orcs somewhere
that will.
trinque: ben_vulpes: foreign born german women
tho! because
they're german nao!
ben_vulpes: "the “large majority†of
the rise was driven by births
to foreign-born women."
pete_dushenski: that 'the press' would aim
to shelter and coddle morons into
the latter camp is despicable, unethical, and destined
to fail - for both
themselves and
their moo-eyed readership.
pete_dushenski: this is presumably what
the employment alternatives look like. i) wash dishes for well
to do couple, learn, maybe make productive connections along
the way (you hope) ; ii) play 'flag
the meanies' in your mom's basement ad infinitum.
shinohai: They got a personal army of similar-minded folks
to flag post and get it removed,
that'll show 'em!
pete_dushenski: ad is included in article and is eminently reasonable. nothing a pa or nanny wouldn't do. i seriously dun get it and it drives me up
the fucking wall.
the gall of
these impotent shits.
to
think
that it's evil for employers
to have specific expectations rather
than being 'universally' 'inclusive'.
pete_dushenski: people who can afford it and
there are folks who don’t have any other options.”" << holy shit does
this sort of libertard flailing grind my fucking gears
pete_dushenski: "It’s essentially an ad for a personal servant, said one UBC professor, who added she was not surprised
to see it given
the country’s growing income inequality. “They’re not calling it a personal servant but
that is what
they’re asking for,” said Sylvia Fuller, who studies employment and inequality. “Its not surprising
that you start
to see more of
this kind of arrangement because
there are
scriba: Logged on 2016-10-17: [18:26:57] <mircea_popescu> Framedragger
they're pretty much on
turkey's kill list. seems unlikely
there's gonna be
that many
to celebrate 2020.
shinohai: no results for
the week pete_dushenski :/
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-16#1555972 << cool.
though gotta love how
the only amason review is 1 star from james storemski. apparently
the
title is heavy on
the numbers and politics. "stuff
the nobody really cares about" mkay. because ofc he asked
the entirety of
the nobody and
they all concurred with james in
the most unambiguous
terms.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: whole steaming pile of droppings is predicated on "don't get involved and let us run
things" after all. match made in heaven.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but usg is always very keen on counting
the jwzs on its own lists. nixon's "silent majority" and all
that.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger
they're pretty much on
turkey's kill list. seems unlikely
there's gonna be
that many
to celebrate 2020.
mats: i give it 1/2 odds usg packs
their bags and goes home if isil is routed from mosul
mats: i'm sure
the kurds lie awake at night waiting for
the knife in
their backs
to materialize
mats: usg has done a good job helping
the kurds hold down
the area
mats: i don't know
that much has changed
mats: there's an ongoing
truce with assad and
they're very close
to controlling
the northeast
Framedragger: mats: since i guess you're following news more
than me, i'm curious if you know anything about how
the kurds in northern syria are doing, assuming anything new in
the last couple of months? (not really following news
there but just curious)
mats: syrians disinterested in any political cause, looking
to live
their lives in peace
mats: lots of folks reporting on isis in .sy, attacks in Aleppo, Darayya, etc but nobody is discussing .ir, Hezbollah funded sectarian militias, IRGC commands on
the battlefield, IRGC providing
the majority of Assad's
troops, active
targeting and destruction of aid convoys, ru's efforts
to destroy moderates and local civilian authorities
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what junk is in
them. changes every year. maybe handicrafts, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: in other news,
the b2b cocksucking season is open early
this year. if anyone wants
to receive
those inane gift baskets corps keep
trying
to send on my behalf, drop me a line (with your physical address).
mircea_popescu: if
there isn't any infrastructure,
the difference between "extremists" and "civilised people" is nil. much like when
there aren't any balls,
the difference between usg presidential hopefuls is nil.
mats: .sy will be one big smoking pile of rubble once assad,
the various insurgencies, IRGC, ru, and isis are finished
a111: Logged on 2016-10-15 05:05 mircea_popescu: anyway, it's pretty evident russia is pivoting from syria
to a iraq spur via
turkey. so yeah, sure, whatever, bazaar al-asado won't be
there forever.
mats:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-15#1555598 << .ru appears committed
to
turning
the fight into a cage match among extremists, by diligently double
tapping remaining civilian infrastructure - water & food storage facilities, courthouses, hospitals
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Why destroy one ship when you can incur
the cost of 8 ships in mold remediation?
BingoBoingo: Eh,
that kind of force and
the center mounting bracket is likely
to fail
mircea_popescu: lol someone's been reading
the prev shotgun quadcopter
thread ? :)
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:22 ben_vulpes:
the stationkeeping fuel budget will be...expensive.
mircea_popescu: and yes
the chamber varied, so
they had a "top-up" propellant depot nearby
mircea_popescu: yup. fired like 50 shots, send
the barrel back
to krupp
mircea_popescu: no pretty sure
the germans had ordnance in numeric order
mircea_popescu: so much so
the projectiles fired were actually of increased caliber over
time
mircea_popescu: fun fact :
the large cannons, much like
the rail guns, actually wore down considerable metal off
the barrel
mircea_popescu: well, so in 60 years "de impliniri marete" we got from 50
to 200 mile railroad artillery. only costs about 5000x. neat.
ben_vulpes: i resent being used
to make
this point.
mircea_popescu: so yes,
there is ONE possibly useful application of a military railgun : making
the deep space interdictor. but
this is slight.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
this isn't "in orbit".
too much friction
there.
this is in outer space.