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ben_vulpes: girl just pointed out to me that the illustrator of curious george and the bunny didn't let slip
a single opportunity to draw
a pink little bunny butthole
ben_vulpes: log lag, such hysteresis. next up: "gps no longer
a thing anywhere usg assets are walking around outside of their bunkers"
mircea_popescu:
a deeply felt notion that death's too harsh to properly speaking exist results necessarily in wasting one's life.
mircea_popescu: rather similarily to how the "human life is worth more than what mp would pay to fuck the item chained to
a wall" leads to impossibility (not difficulty -- outright impossibility) of allocating healthcare dollars, just so...
mircea_popescu: and so there it is, waiting to have its idiocy proven wrong to itself at an arbitrarily strong standard. because who the hell knowns what it could miss out if indeed it WERE
a woman, somehow.
mircea_popescu: however, the distortion this wreaks is that if
a indeed were infinite, since the possible value of any possible configuration is always epsilon rather than zero, it is suddenly apparently worth it to consider that "well, maybe if the ice state is in the shape of the Pantsuited Abominartion herself, then IT WILL WORK?!?!?!".
mircea_popescu: something in the vein of "1. people dying is something too harsh for [my meagre powers] to consider ; 2. if something is hard it is ok to not do it ; 3. things that are not thought of do not properly speaking exist. therefore from 1-2-3 we have proven
a is infinite".
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER! because
a+b summing to something finite implies mortality, which is to say, that the almighty narcissist anal child eventually ends, and what's worse, the film he blessed with his heroic centrality ends with him... it THEREFORE FOLLOWS
a must be infinite.
mircea_popescu: because there's
a list of possible questions organised in
a question tree ("should i figure out glass or metal ? if i figure out metal, should i figure out sheets or rails ? and so on ad infinitum) it soon becomes apparent that no, it very much isn't worth it to evaluate arbitrarily complex ice sculptures for their possible fit to be used in castlemaking.
mircea_popescu: now then. if phase
a takes
a time, and phase b takes another time, then you have
a value function implicit.
mircea_popescu: think of it as
a tower defense game, cuz it's exactly the only model the imbecile spawn of esltarded women even have. that's ALL the business, strategy, everything.
mircea_popescu: let's model it thusly. in the mmorpg called "life" the rules say there's two phases. phase
a, where you figure out how to build
a castle, and out of what, and so on. and phase b, where you sit in that castle and get GOODSTUFF, function of how well it was made. say fame or esteem or communication with god^H^H^H resplenduminous etcetera.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in today's late breakfast suggestions, leberwurst geraucht with green olives on homemade bread, and
a sizable helping oh holsteiner fasskraut on the side.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you can add that to the list, by the way.
a tendency to take what you hear as "what is" dun work irl! you know what i mean ? just cuz some chick said it from behind
a desk dun make it worth two shits.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that said there's nothing wrong with applying for some, as
a political choice.
mircea_popescu: but this is
a self-inflicted misery. do not take the republic seriously, get what you get for it.
mircea_popescu: yes, i agree it is
a very sad reality that everyone seems to be playing catch-up with the absolute minimum bar of "marginally retarded" rather than creating novel and interesting things.
mircea_popescu: the problemis not that -- the problem is he got less ips for
a whole rack than i have for single machines.
mircea_popescu: whatever it'd be, i can promise you
a) it does not work out of the box and b) you will want >25 years to fix it.
mircea_popescu: that was
a fabulous bit of JIT channeling btw! i'm finally fucking done with this monster article.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, you're talking around the point. the scam is simple enough : here mr taxman, is
a box, of chassis motherboard cpu.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-12 15:57 mircea_popescu: but if you notice memory is 60% of the price and ~nobody knows wtf is going on... you get taxed on
a third at most.
mircea_popescu: i think your numbers are within
a x2 / x.5 ballpark, which is about where it's been for
a while. proceed.
mircea_popescu: but if you notice memory is 60% of the price and ~nobody knows wtf is going on... you get taxed on
a third at most.
☟︎ mod6: you were looking for
a trilema article?
shinohai: The best part is it took her 2 whole weeks to formulate
a reply
BingoBoingo: WTF, She opened with...
A negotiation on term!
diana_coman: obv, there should also be in principle
a speed-up because of cutting off the "now word-> bits" part but that's sort of bonus the way I see it
mircea_popescu: i kinda liked the fiction that we have
a bit-level something.
diana_coman: going with 1.1, 2.1 and 3.2 also takes out entirely from keccak the bit-to-value and value-to-bit conversions ; input is
a stream of octets, output is
a stream of octets and keccak itself works at word level anyway
a111: Logged on 2018-02-08 17:47 diana_coman: mircea_popescu, well, if input+output are considered at octet level, there is
a case to say that reading out of the state is also done at octet level; I'll mull this over
a bit longer re speed as such (for the word-level implementation because the bit-level is just as slow either way)
BingoBoingo: I have
a lot to learn before trusting myself much with the self direction is what this past week has been beating into me.
BingoBoingo: It is why I am inclined for alf to solicit pete_dushenski or another more experienced manager as either
a consultant or partner if he is interested in taking over.
mircea_popescu: the reason i'm cutting you out is because we have very poor fit, i'm
a "provide general guidance and hangings" sort of manager and you evidently need
a mommy, to check whether you packed your lunch and to ask if you need to pee every so often. should you find one you can certainly thrive, but you've not found her in me is all.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the exact same holds re your overhead there. you have an office and so on that costs 1/10 or less of what it'd cost had
a fiatola scampany carried it on its own books ; and the matter continues -- if we get
a semi fulla 2u chassis in, we will have
a pile chassis worth 2x what we paid for them due to the barriers the ineptitude of orcs place in our favour.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what your lack of experience isn't informing you is that you have
a very significant advantage. your ~7k per annum cost compares very VERY favorable to what empire pays to hire
a walmart drone (25k or so base + 20k or so in overload). the walmart drone costs 6x what you do, and i daresay they do not do 1/6th of what you do. just because you came out short of lordship in the field does not now mean the baseline of
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't imagine there's other bids ; but if there are feel free to put
a time limit on your bid and we see. i certainly see no problem with the matter being disposed by nightfall.
mircea_popescu: either of these under the firm condition that if at
a later point bb has to fly out, it won't come to me.
BingoBoingo: So, if anyone wants to take on an expensive, high risk corpse of
a venture at almost certain substantial loss in BTC value... I'll be here at least
a few days, probably
a week, maybe even the end of the month before heading back to the land of petrocheese.
BingoBoingo: And further mind
a brief investigation of the local labor market yielded:
http://archive.is/Hp01G#selection-3125.0-3125.286 "Una buena empresa donde trabajar si uno quiere desarrollarse, ya que siempre hay nuevas oportunidades. Se aprende una forma de trabajo completamente diferente
a la que uno está acostumbrado en Uruguay. La gente que tiene uno
a su lado es en el 99 % increíble. Es lo que mas se destaca."
BingoBoingo: And any potential saviors looking for
a vanity project ought to mind that likely the best thing for my health and reputation is going to be returning to familiar AA meetings and the humble, anonymous life working in
a hardware store.
BingoBoingo:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-10#1783157 << On this point, taking
a lot more explicit direction... perhaps from an alf pete_dushenski partnership, where my role becomes more hired hand than self directed center of the brand. I mention pete_dushenski because of his lack of toxic US passport and apparent management experience. I have my doubts alf alone is sufficient to right this ship, but if pete_dushenki wants try saving the republic
☝︎ phf: i can probably put that machine on ssh, but it's been sitting in
a closet and wildly spinning the fans, so i wonder if there's something i need to tweak in openbsd to keep it from doing that..
BingoBoingo: At any sort of density, even with 125 Watt processors that is
a lot of hardware to risk (in terms of RAM and heat sensitive SSDs)
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-10#1783178 << for the sake of it being said, nominally all difficulties are naught moar than more proffit opportunities. if you get organized to import all the shit the dc MUST have but did not in fact have, you have yet another revenue stream ready. pay $150 per chassis in saneland, plus $30 or so in shipping, sell them the dozen for 3300 (+ "iva") -- which hey, is
a GREAT fucking deal seeing h
☝︎ BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I am not opposed to taking alfdebt in favor of mircea_popescu debt minding that the mircea_popescu debt comes first unless alf makes other arrangements with mircea_popescu. And also that
a substantial part of the +EV involves BingoBoingo does things alf will find very disgusting to
a few boxes in order to sell shared hosting. Think of how alf directed venture with PCengines 8 to the 1U as opposed to VPS for small
mircea_popescu: sure it does, but BingoBoingo isn't my chattel-held slavegirl, he's
a free agent, what.
mircea_popescu: i would certainly consider selling ; now take the next hour and consider the matter THOROUGHLY, before you come back to promise me that you're actually acting rationally, rather than psychotically trying to further
a dream on the flimsy fuel of injured self-image.
mircea_popescu: i know there's this generalized habit to believe one's "in charge" of "himself" and may permit or not permit reality into his autism bubble as he sees fit and with no further consequences than whatever he may deign to allow, such magic powers being the absolute minimum bar for
a special person quite as superbly special as those bred of postmodernity.
mircea_popescu: sooo BingoBoingo there's two fundamental problems you got there. one of them is that you have significant bills hitting in
a few weeks that you've made no provision for paying. the other's that you lack basic physical building blocks,
a lack you've made no provision for even discovering in time.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-09 23:08 pete_dushenski: lulzy trump anecdote of the day comes to us from his personal porn star stormy daniels : "She describes walking into his suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel, for instance. “You could see the television from the little dining room table and he was watching Shark Week,” she recalled. “And he was watching
a special about the U.S.S. something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history. He
trinque: this porn whore that decides she'll have 15min of upboats recounting some mundane tryst she had with
a mediocre man.
shinohai: The one of Fructuoso Rivera on
a horse?
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> Do the locals have bronze-tipped spears at least? << No, but they have
a statue of the fellow who genocided their natives in front of Tres Cruces Shopping/Bus Terminal.
pete_dushenski: is obsessed with sharks. Terrified of sharks. He was like, ‘I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to
a charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.’ He was like riveted. He was like obsessed. It was so strange, I know.”"
pete_dushenski: lulzy trump anecdote of the day comes to us from his personal porn star stormy daniels : "She describes walking into his suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel, for instance. “You could see the television from the little dining room table and he was watching Shark Week,” she recalled. “And he was watching
a special about the U.S.S. something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history. He
☟︎ BingoBoingo: As I put this post togther the one redeeming though that keeps floating to the top of my mind is that this place is small enough that if The Republic is going to start subjugating, this is
a rather small and defenseless sandbox to practice on.
BingoBoingo: "Don't flush toilet paper" is
a warning I should have taken far more seriously.
mircea_popescu: but, for your own notes as well as for the strengthening of the public record, let me point out that the line "well mp... i have my doubts about the feasibility of the plan here ; casual inspection of the local orc bazaars pompously bestowing upon themselves the unearned monicker of 'computer hardware shops' resulted in
a grand total of ONE identified rack, for instance." properly belonged in the ~very first week~ of your str
BingoBoingo: I return. The short of the news is there is still only one "business" that had one 2U chassis, and they have yet to follow up with
a quote for the rest of the shopping list. Blog post baking, with pictures from this cargo cult hell hole.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: you don't want
a 4096 bit key; i can't find the relevant logs at the moment but koch-rsa does bad shit when generating keys > 2048 bits
trinque: will give it
a look in
a bit
pete_dushenski: hopefully one of these loser pubkeys works, but if not i've made
a new 4096 bit key to act as back-up/replacement. lemme know and thx again
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 14:58 asciilifeform: 'Boneh, in joint work with Matt Franklin, constructed
a novel pairing-based method for identity-based encryption (IBE), whereby
a user's public identity, such as an email address, can function as the user's public key. Since then, Boneh's contributions, together with those of others, have shown the power and versatility of pairings, which are now used as
a mainstream tool in cryptography. The transfer of pairings from theory t
shinohai: Seems like
a perfect partnership then.
BingoBoingo: But
a substantial number of the stores are closed forever.
BingoBoingo: shit together for
a Wednesday morning pickup)) Returning to the businesses that weren't yet open this morning when I first passed them, and then the longer shots... and listening for more referrals. Just might be able to get the count up to 12 cases.
BingoBoingo: I have found 1 (they may have two more in their warehouse but they aren sure of their condition, but did see one in the store mounted in
a rack they had on display) 2U rackmount chassis. They want 246 USD for each 2U case, after the cash discount. They promised an itemized quote on the rest of the heavy shit shopping list later today. Firm is Technolyn S.
A. (They are closed Monday and Tuesday next week for Carnival, hoping they can put