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williamdunne: mircea_popescu: "i
tried and
therefore no-one can criticize me" 10/10.
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throws a hell of a party.
ben_vulpes: !rate mircea_popescu 4
throws a hell of a party.
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menahem: lol, glad I asked. always a deeper layer
to what you say. ;)
Pierre_Rochard: it may allow
them
to avoid all
the money
transmitter nonsense
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the rating for jurov from 4
to 3 with note: several collaborations, never a hitch.
Pierre_Rochard: williamdunne: new york
trust company not quite a bank, much lower cost
menahem: hey mircea, do you have an article in relation
to your quotation "dreams may be anything you wish" ?
williamdunne: Thats supposedly
the cost of running a bank pre-launch of your product
williamdunne: They may have managed some VC fool
to give
them $60m so
they can get
their license
williamdunne: Pretty much. What do you
think of ItBit
trying
to become a bank?
To me it looks like
they failed
to create an exchange people want
to use and now
they're
trying
to diversify
williamdunne: Yeah, it'd be nice
to see some service offered by people worth
trusting
ben_vulpes: lol and
there's a guy going by goat in
the
trollbox
ben_vulpes: williamdunne: i'd ask if you've put any money down on 'em, but i
think i already know
the answer
to
that
trinque: but yeah, I don't expect
to live
this way forever
williamdunne: ben_vulpes: Whom I choose
to
trust, and who others choose
to
trust are very different
things, in fairness
ben_vulpes: williamdunne: moreover, if you'd not
trust a bitcent on
them,
they're not really 'actual'. finance runs on
trust. no
trust, not finance.
williamdunne: Well if you believe
the numbers,
the volume is pretty huge. I believe it probably is still pretty big but wouldn't
trust a bitcent on
them (unlike MPOE of course)
ben_vulpes: williamdunne: like a) how would we know if volume is what
they say it is (who
the fuck is operating
them anyways), and b) is it oom comparable
to mpoe?
mircea_popescu: He'll do a little dance,
take you home
tonight. Leave his wallet alone, but you can kiss his node...
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin girl, you're outa sight, you need a bitcoin boy,
to
treat you right.
trinque: ben_vulpes: can confirm my routine looks like "while (true) { if (awake) {
type(); } else { dream_of_typing(); }}"
williamdunne: But.. but..
the blogger said
there are no bitcoin girls
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes shut up hater!
there'sd even a bitcoin literature!
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I'll draw up a full spec and be sure
that I can do it (in
terms of
time) and show
that
to you. Good starting point?
mircea_popescu: sadly, for all
the derpage re "bitcoin finance bla bla"
williamdunne: I can do everything, if we want it
to be pretty I can organize an actual designer
too
williamdunne: I guess
that depends on how we wanted
to do it and
the full scope - could be a big or small job. What would be
the end goal? Listing on MPEX and running it continuously or building
the site and palming it off
to someone else
mircea_popescu: how much would it be paying and what do you intend
to actually do ?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Its definitely an interesting job, and if its a paying job I have
the
time. So yes
trinque: if nobody's done it in a couple years, I'd love
to
take on a hosting biz on other shores
mircea_popescu: williamdunne so in
the light of a new day, does
the bsdm social media
thing actualy look worth doing
to you ?
Naphex: why lose
that capability. hide it and use it for fun
Naphex: mircea_popescu: all
there is left
to do now is grep for secrets :P
Naphex: mircea_popescu: well if
they do
the breakout
they'll surely rootkit
the hypervisor kernel as well. so doubt
they'll ever find out :P
trinque: mircea_popescu: it's a feature for
their biggest customer
mircea_popescu: Naphex i sometimes wonder how many boxes did amazon lose
to date
Naphex: trinque: i guess, as i see
they use xen. imho letting xen guests define
the kernel is a sure way of suffering when
they manage
to break out of
the hypervisor :P
mircea_popescu: and diversified enough
that
the arabs can-t quite outright kill him. (tho
they're
trying). i
tell you
this is a fun
thing
toi watch, for me.
mircea_popescu: the guy is
taking massive levels of risk. one of
teh few contemporary capitalists actually earning hteir keep.
trinque: Naphex: instructions
there use your own kernel
ben_vulpes: and he's deeply bezzlefied, so he can probably convince
tptb
to let him self insure
the bombs
too!
ben_vulpes: well, not just
the panels but
the roofes on which
they're installed.
Naphex: trinque: does amazon load
the kernel or just skips it?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
this is not how insurance works. insurance is an actuarial business
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: musk's got a good handle on
the battery safety
thing. d'you recall
the
trumpeting over how his cell design nukes cascading failures when
the Boeing batteries caught on fire midair?
mod6: ok
thanks, good
to know.
Naphex: mod6: if you need
the other syslogs like wtmp,btmp,lastlog you'll probably have
to hardlink
them in log. But
that should be it
mircea_popescu: mod6 Naphex prolly has a point in
that if you actually switch out
the kernel on an aws... well
they basically lost it. how's
their hypervisors etc
to work
mod6: this is good news, because I still want
to attach
the 350gb drive
that I used for chain storage (i've got at least 6+ fully syncd)
to
the instance.
Naphex: make sure you kill
the other running stuff before
mircea_popescu: mod6 anyway, oince you get
this working make sure
to describe what you did IN GREAT DETAIL
Naphex: get
the latest stage, unpack it and chroot it
mod6: Thanks for
the
tip.
mod6: ok, so setup a chroot environment, and run everything in
the chroot?
Naphex: mod6: i never used AWS. But i doubt you could switch
the kernel. but
the chroot should solve your issues
mod6: I'm probably just dumb. How can I setup an instance with a clean stage3. All I see
that are available are AMI's. And I'm worried
that
they've got
things/tools pre-installed
that I don't want
to have in
there.
This instance will be a build/testing server for R.I. development.
Naphex: mod6: why not just kill most of
the stuff running on
the AMI and do a chroot and set
that up
Naphex: mod6: i roll my own gentoo's. what's
the problem with amazon?
mod6: Is it at all possibru
to set up
the instance with a Gentoo AMI, and
then use it as a shim
to somehow re-load with a clean stage3?
mod6: So, before I go off in another direction, I guess I should ask if anyone knows how
to get a gentoo stage3 running on an AWS instance. Previously, when
testing v0.5.3.1-RELEASE on an AWS instance I used a pre-build/configured AMI
that are available; which leads me
to believe why I probably got some slightly different results from others who had used a roll-your-own gentoo with stage3.
mircea_popescu: not
to even consider
the fact
that once
this commodifies,
the night discount goes away
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the price differential won't likely even cover cost of insurance for
that bomb, let alone its capital amortisation
mircea_popescu: "battery-based energy storage for residential and commercial customers.
The batteries power up overnight when energy companies
typically charge less for electricity,
then are used during
the day
to power a home." <<
theres just no way
this is cost effective.
williamdunne: ben_vulpes: Still working
to get Atom support working, wasn't working with
the small change
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 14:02:19; asciilifeform:
the java stack per se - entirely ignoring
the language (which is an instrument of
torture) is a pernicious enough
thing
that i do not allow it on any metal under my control which matters
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 14:00:57; Naphex: luckaly
the lisp chef will have his shit serverd and all wrapped in paranthesis :)
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: So what are
these Pogos? I had a look for
them but I found some cloud backup company who didn't even advertise a pogo plug as far as I could see