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mircea_popescu: but if you're claling your marginal business "A start-up" you're basically begging to work for free
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, everyone gotta eat, so plentry of people will habve to be employed in marginal businesses.
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.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate xmj -1 meets my definition of marauding idiocy.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why you think you're entitled to put forth that nonsense in the company of adults, but don't.
mircea_popescu: but meanwhile, business is made by businessmen not by aspi[rational] kids
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.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: do romanians pronounce cloud in funny ways too? << cloud in romanian sounds pretty much like duncan mcloud from the clan mcloud.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: most of their customers are banks, and all kinds of srsfolk << that made my uvula bleed. when did banks become technologically apt omfg.
mircea_popescu: the reasons being, of course, outside of the realm of your priors.
mircea_popescu: jurov: upo thread of expulsion from the dc << what shitcenter was this ?
mircea_popescu: dude computers that "just work" are like girlfriends that "just fuck"
mircea_popescu: Naphex: no point in delusioning yourself forever with outsourcing, and clouds, and virtual stuff << exactly. and at this point i can't tell if xml is trolling or serious.
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.
mircea_popescu: (lowest qualification for any driver : can actually start any one car, irrespective of make or model)
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: jurov, i can't imagine there aren't piles of strange in there.
mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc coinjoin was gmaxwell's idea originally. ended up in a lengthy discussion with midnightmagic over its dismerits a year ago
mircea_popescu: i don't tend to spy on allies (unlike the us, let it be pointed out) and so i guess that's one thing to look forward to once he's extradited
mircea_popescu: jurov: so i had to hide them behind some layers... and using physical machines for all of them whould prohibitively expensive << actually the one secret in all of btc i;m most curious about is the complete schematics of the rat's nest jurov no doubt built.
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)
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
mircea_popescu: *: Naphex recommends using dedicated servers instead of virtual anything. << im with him jurov. i would guess all the romanianz on the internet are with us. which means YOU ARE IN THE MINORITY. all of youse.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, basically "the cloud" is just the new marketing gimmick, used to be "unmetered access shared servers" in 2004
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
mircea_popescu: am i the only one that most enjoys writing dismissal letters of all the letter types there are ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation mihaib sounds like quite the romanian name
mircea_popescu: and making history and all that jazz all the derps claim
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: dude is it great that these aren't related and so p2 can cover p4 etc
mircea_popescu: mike_c, o wow, how is bitbet negastive ? she lost a bet meanwhile ?
mircea_popescu: because they're paid by how much they pretend to have mattered the previous year.
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: "I haven't heard from my lawyer exactly how much that's going to be," he said.
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: "please kickstart my cool fundamental project. fundamental research is important because it's what keeps kittens purr"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: benkay: Are they supposing I want to fuck a hurricaine? << imagine the suction.
mircea_popescu: jurov: i move for moiety to call them, ask about mpex and report for lulz << carried. moiety plz to call and ask
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you and everyone else capable of safely keeping a bitcoin for a year