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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'do not believe those who say 'all the world is shit.' for there also exists piss.' -- my grandfather
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 14:59:18; mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> or, if you prefer the alternative formulation, http://logs.minigame.bz/2015-11-09.log.html#t04:28:25
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so what's eta on qntra?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many, but the car is typically a museum piece
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 14:59:25; mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> heh, I have some coming to me to figure out some Maths really - about 50% run after a few lessons complaining that it is too hard and I'm happy with that
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> btw lobbes could it read the log line instead of the page title ?
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> or, if you prefer the alternative formulation, http://logs.minigame.bz/2015-11-09.log.html#t04:28:25 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> save isis the trouble.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> the only thing i'd pay them to do is slit their own throats.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> DianaComan have you met any of these brave young fellows populating reading ?
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> where is here ?
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> incidentally mircea_popescu is that Eulora poster available in some format that can be easily printed? guess it can't hurt to get some copies pinned around the uni campus here
asciilifeform begins to grasp what mircea_popescu was trying to hammer into his thick head the other day.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how come 'Russia is no good. What else you got' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thing was as seen on left hand of the photo in this link - http://www.ebay.com/itm/METTLER-TOLEDO-BALANCE-SCALE-KIT-Tecan-Gravimetric-Calibration-QC-Analytical-Lab-/230957309812
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had one of these. stood in the library
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the most likely scenario is that a monkey lifted the nums straight from a datasheet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prolly euro floating pt
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 22:28:15; mircea_popescu: jurov ftr, phuctor was memory bound iirc.
wao_: mircea_popescu: no, I don't own hosting company, where I'm going I don't need names :)
wao_: mircea_popescu: and actuall hardware or datacenter cant handle that? who is in charge of that?
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> depends, but in general about 1mbps or thereabouts.
wao_: mircea_popescu: hello! I heard you are searching for hoster? is it actuall? what are current bandwith to boxes?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu wants the healthy and unusgified spirit of the orc but with 'human' work ethic
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 03:02:25; mircea_popescu: is that his brain has decided it will not live without the products of industry ; while his ass does not enjoy the delights of anal proximity ; while the two are insepoarable, respectively : his ass from his head, and industry from maggotry.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 19:16:11; mircea_popescu: this is fundamental. if we, for whatever value of "we" you wish to choose, can not and do not transplant one on the other, we will have failed.
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> i'm unpersuaded it has anything to do with any ddos << when I attempt to ping, I get the 'can't find host' message rather than just 100% packet loss
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Next Thursday so Thanksgiving. Next club meeting after that is the Friday.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> turned out it was run by random addict and it's contemptible friends << Qntra was edited by two drunks.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and moscow ?
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 14:28:48; mircea_popescu: what you, or at any rate someone, has to do is research a sane jurisdiction, register a company, find some datacenters, enter into service agreements, research some providers, buy some hardware, have it delivered etc.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 13:52:49; mircea_popescu: in this : just god damned colo some boxes already.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: consider writing article re: the thing that ought to be done by the courageous in re: hosters ?
ascii_field recalls trying to convince mircea_popescu of precisely this but re: chip fab
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if you buy a boat and wanna start pulling own fiber across the sea, sign me up.
ascii_field: only that mircea_popescu's last 2 or so boxes, fell down ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i only know folks who rent from 1 to 42U in some cage, like ordinary plebes, in one particular dc
ascii_field: mircea_popescu looked like he was about to have aneurism. please don't! i did not want to piss on his parade, but must point out that if $magichost folks do the same exact thing as the last 1,001 folks, they will get... same result
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 18:35:15; mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as confusing to the wanna-be entrepreneur as it might be, it's apparently very threatening to the wanna-be "intellectual", or whatever we call this new (hardly, lol) species of human that aims to inhabit a world of ideas.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326379 << i think these are the same cats mircea_popescu saw in istanbul ! ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 14:30:33; mircea_popescu: anyway : unlike the average start-up my own business thing (which yes, 90% fail anyway) you have some major advantages, in that you're not coming up with an idea and hoping a market finds you, but on the contrary, the fgucking market is begging you alreadyt.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wouldn't you expect if i hired a tramp to flood my business for the insurance his story would be "he wanted to strand his wife so he could fish and have an affair" ? << lol
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 13:43:20; mircea_popescu: guaranteed business, etc, what exactly is going on, raining money where you people live ? obamacare paychecks ?
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 13:25:18; mircea_popescu: what's so special about hiv ?
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 12:53:43; mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues.
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 13:57:52; mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has a point, and szabo's theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just as long as it doesn't come to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with this racism bullcrap like the rest of the anglos.)
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 13:52:49; mircea_popescu: in this : just god damned colo some boxes already.
jurov: effectively using class B is very different thing from "just get me a box somewhere".. if mircea_popescu specifies the latter, then no wonder time is wasted
jurov: mircea_popescu: anyone. i just want to inllustrate your poor analogies
jurov: mircea_popescu: age you going to insure me for ddos if rent a box?
jurov: landlords nor water have ddos potential. try harder, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: so the client list would be: mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: i mean i get it, mircea_popescu is stalin and не шагу назад and human wave attacks do have merit and occasionally do the job. but the kind of thing proposed here is inherently not a 'mass' product.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla, mircea_popescu: right now it looks rather like a 'die for the motherland!' sorta investment. hence no takerz.
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user shinohai: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 3 via 3 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=mircea_popescu&to=shinohai | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/shinohai/
shinohai: mircea_popescu: I live in Atlanta.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 13:50:54; mircea_popescu: just colocate some god damned boxes already.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 12:53:43; mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues.
asciilifeform: but the basic boojum is described in one of mircea_popescu's own articles: a datacenter is 'a fortress'
asciilifeform: waitasec, i thought mircea_popescu was building the 'useful host' thing
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues. << starts in school when talking about STDs or disease transmission in general
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.loper-os.org/pub/wunderwaffen.txt
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but i'm developing overexposure allergy to this "i don't understand anything so therefore here's my expert opinion on things" << I kinda handle it the same way one handles lower animals acting in ignorance of the futility of their efforts. Birds hitting windows, dogs barking at trains, rabbits fleeing pedestrians into traffic...
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 14:12:38; mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not as a goal-excused means but as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: from lead pipes..?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i thought this was already a thing?
ascii_field: or the usgization of mircea_popescu's esp8266 thing
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-11-2015#1325859 << there are miscreants who fart without written authorization from hitler! me, for instance. while mircea_popescu takes entire shits without so much as oral permission from His Reptilian Majesty... ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 13:58:55; mircea_popescu: the chinese, like all of asia, like all of the arab world, like fucking oceania and all the "nation of africa" assorted nobodies were, and have been forever happy to sit around and contemplate the immortality of laziness.
adlai hands mircea_popescu a copy of Infinite Jest
punkman: mircea_popescu: I thought so, but I get information overload trying to read some of those posts. maybe footnotes would make it flow better.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.naphex.-1:958c6f38e082e9a15f842d84de6ebdde3ccb9d67e9272b3e1e8f75007262228f
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu where did you unearth this zoo ?
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:24:21; mircea_popescu: there is ~no relation between numbers on websites and bitcoin price.
asciilifeform: if the mircea_popescu-price were so much higher than the 300 plebe-price, one would see orgies of sybilling ?
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:31:54; mircea_popescu: ru carder with 10 mn is not getting 3k btc, that's for sure. nor does he want it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know that the 'official' price is a fiction. but this was not the evidence for my hypothesis.
asciilifeform: for mircea_popescu buying 100,000 btc for swiss franks - price is something else, yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: price isn't a scalar
jurov: mircea_popescu: can i exchange you 1 btc for 1k eur next time then?
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:16:02; mircea_popescu: https://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3sy7vg/buying_100000_in_btc_with_credit_cards_fleeing/ << meanwhile the sheeple are even starting to figure it out.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: did i somehow sleep through a death of the ebay monopoly ?
shinohai: k thx mircea_popescu, ascii_field
shinohai: mircea_popescu: your node down ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/1B66XYC << deobfuscated turd from same
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: you mean pete_dushenski's link ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: what about mexicans ? ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 23:53:26; mircea_popescu: ving away from a "frontier" worldwiew and toward a "cargo cult"/scavenger world view. consequently the notion that new things can be made is being gradually abandoned.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: iirc in his selling the thing letter he mentioned intending to start a general technology news thing, but I haven't seen anything out of that yet
ascii_field: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu: not only do we not have them, but i haven't been touching either for weeks, instead breaking my back to pay rent.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how do you figure?
ben_vulpes: the engineering constraint is not "webshites that mircea_popescu can use" but "velocity at which bezzlebuxx are burned"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: if one must swim in js soup, and spin 'food' from refined corn so to speak, there are worse protective suits than the jsapp.
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 16:58:10; mircea_popescu: things that are impossible to do online : rent hosting.
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 16:01:12; mircea_popescu: i dunno if anyone's ever seen a watermelon field, but : in the future [like, next year ?] they have this arrangement where there's central piping out in a filed, and fat people go to live in a conected bubble. think "van camping" except without the wheels. they're marketed as you know "reduce your carbon footprint and care for the environment" etc, but basically it is is a suit with lcds and a shitpi
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-11-2015#1325130 << pelevin did this, literally. 'love of the three zuckerbrins' ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2015 07:33:36; mircea_popescu: "The Ceremony Administrator boots the laptop from a DVD" << example of "security".
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: More like a quick couple chuckles
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 00:31:20; mircea_popescu: in this line, there was a time in central/eastern yurp when married woman HAD to have sewing machine.
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 00:30:35; mircea_popescu: Connection failed: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)