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mircea_popescu: they lined up about 40% chicks, and it really looked like phi kappa gamma or some shit
mircea_popescu: so they hired this ridiculous company, full of basically idiots
mircea_popescu: cluj airport, about 15 years ago. previously unsecured at all, because well... originally was secured by army, then those went out, a whole story.
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, it's totally unethical for rich people to have better shit than poor people.
mircea_popescu: "Much of the debate has focused on the ethics and effectiveness of bringing more guns and officers to wealthier parts of Oakland."
mircea_popescu: brandished a lethal prybar and advanced toward the security guard in a threatening manner
mircea_popescu: i'd say it's about 70% settled the crimeea splits off.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile rbs just announced it kinda... misplaced the 100bn the taxpayer provided
mircea_popescu: the whole of twitter is made up of experts on the ukraine now.
mircea_popescu: i didn;t say "asciilifeform should be less of a soviet" now did i.
mircea_popescu: all the cultures the us "invaded" have actually successfuly invaded the us.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, it's not as costly as diametric's 3d printer farm
mircea_popescu: bones` like a decade of experience in the field, actual connections, actual rented floor in multiple dcs, working relationships with the dc management, the tier 1 bw providers and parts suppliers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just the regularly scheduled mpoe statement
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla keeps being rude and arrogant to customer support ppls
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah but once we move assets there it becomes huge fish
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla and then agency X wants to send 100gbit floods because why not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not rly any serious btc hoster as of yet
mircea_popescu: then again, that'd require them extracting head from bunghole, which may prove more difficult.
mircea_popescu: i'd much rather add servers to freenode's pool than split the effort.
mircea_popescu: so a hdd in a raid array failed and has been hotswapped.
mircea_popescu: and anyway, i'd love to keep chattin' but got some stuff to do right nao
mircea_popescu: wbaw thjat's besides the point. i being already comparably big, your argument fails
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic yeah it's some japanese corp research firm
mircea_popescu: well guess what... i'm not that far off. now what do we do.
mircea_popescu: wbaw in a word, yes. especially because bitcoin isn't a currency in this sense.
mircea_popescu: wbaw how can your williams whoever do business without looking at bitbet.
mircea_popescu: every business will make a choice as you can't have all three.
mircea_popescu: these are the three ends of the triangle : how much it costs, how secure it is, how fast it goes.
mircea_popescu: and while it'd be ideal to move faster, it's also ideal not to make mistakes, and not to cost an infinity.
mircea_popescu: but you're in no way at risk. if people bet after the fact hey just get charged a small fine
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin suddenly opened the gate. It is a poisonous offering. You are grossly unequipped to interact straight with the refuse of Western society. Accepting investors with fortunes under a million dollars or whatever the limit was placed for US citizens may make sense. Accepting investors with fortunes under any arbitrary value and simultaneously wits under any arbitrary threshold is not a sound business plan but a stra
mircea_popescu: ver they’re called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, they’ve done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to obstruct vision, living arrangements all thought through and everything.
mircea_popescu: Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whate
mircea_popescu: i actually am not competing with huge companies for the favours of you.
mircea_popescu: dood, i'm sure it's good enough, a mod needs to get to it.