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mircea_popescu: phf yeah, do you have a muscovi corp reg'd ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: and gpgram with mircea_popescu , things are in (a sort of ) motion.
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-15#1714617 << goal is to establish co in moscows, and put a colo on its name? i can make inquiries about at least some of the steps, but not sure i'll be able to perform all the necessary actions in the time left. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it's ~ what "causes, not purposes" does irl, as a forinstance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'szilard's engine' believe or not has a more ancient ru peasant existence!111 in the proverb 'Знал бы где упасть -- соломки бы подстелил' .
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if one built a cylinder with independent pistons and a partition, and put a single molecule in, and knew on which side it found itself, that one could extract entropy work out of the assemblage!"
asciilifeform: it's a fundamental tension in ~everything~, because it is in fact an information-theoretical problem and not at all domain-specific
mircea_popescu: and the problem is also a LOT bigger than commonly understood. a scientist's ability to produce anything meaningful is forever trapped in the superifical tension of a very narrow menisc : between him being caught in a certain box ("paradigm") but not in the other one ("orthodoxy").
mircea_popescu: that's the advantage of living in a small pond, the exact opposite of the problem of math.
asciilifeform: oh speaking of this, asciilifeform's pet had response to mircea_popescu's 'o sopirla' : 'there is also an inverse sopirla, where an item has the outward pretense of disobedience, but in fact reaffirms pantsuit orthodoxy. did the romanians have a name for it as well?'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, the convention is that girls who feel a deep urge to be so abused answer "moo" to that pic.
NotEvenWrong: I'm actually about to help a friend dump his
NotEvenWrong: It was at 0.22 a few weeks back(!)
mircea_popescu: well, so you deed a good deed, released some schmucks from their burden
NotEvenWrong: at a rate of 0.125, no less!
BingoBoingo: "Stockley shot Smith five separate times and prosecutors argued during the trial that Stockley put a gun in Smith’s car after the encounter." << Per the verdict there was no fifth shot.
mircea_popescu: hey, aborting a whole ream of escaped avortons in one go. i can see the arousal potential.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fwiw that's a charged term in central empire (царь-государь lands) because the main character in crna macka was zare. and he doth get the girl.
mircea_popescu: i never forget a name
mircea_popescu: lumea s-a schimbat mei.
fcbl: a week ago
mircea_popescu: you are a demanding iconographer BingoBoingo
asciilifeform: fcbl: you know, there's a log , right ?
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/09/15/a-very-ordinary-idea-a-simple-statement-of-a-known-fact/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - A very ordinary idea, a simple statement of a known fact.
BingoBoingo: WTF: "“Although you have a doctorate, I doubt that you teach. Although you have a doctorate, I doubt that you do research,” Schlesinger wrote to a disabilities services specialist at the university, announcing his departure last week. He accused the staff member of writing him “coercive emails” about the accommodation and copied his entire class on climate and global change on the exchange."
BingoBoingo: In other petite flondorings, a climatarast https://archive.is/DdcPi
mircea_popescu: as if there even could fucking be such a thing, as an intellectual, ie, somehow who cultivates his mind, who is left, which is to say dedicated to stupidity.
mircea_popescu: he meant, "it's good enough for random mfa, why not good enough for ogilvy-mathers". and he has a point -- it is good enough.
mircea_popescu: of course that's the next step, but it's a step down in in-universe terms.
asciilifeform: this is probably where i admit that i can't actually stomach a whole wapo front to back
mircea_popescu: in other words, pravda was a cutout triangle, whereas this is a 3d pyramid. way the fuck more material sinks in.
mircea_popescu: this is very much a work of "it was a rainy night in december, i was having my tonsils basted when i stumbled on a copy of the gosplan blablabla"
asciilifeform: so it never made sense to my naked eye why feed a deeply -ev nyt etc
BingoBoingo: next year is a congressional election year
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Hillary published a book. The timing of the book's release coincides with Pelosi and Schumer moistening Herr Trump's balls.
mircea_popescu: beats airpl;ane, yes. not even a matter of cost, a matter of time and wear-and-tear of the human capital.
mircea_popescu: BUT what i meant was, have a box of phuctor racked, and an identical box, stored at the dc (they do offer storage), or even also-racked.
mircea_popescu: you can't be jumping in a plane seat every time some toshiba pos dies, it's unsanitary.
asciilifeform: but yes it looks like a $2-3k to change a dead hdd..
mircea_popescu: so then 1, for phuctor, 1tb item ; 1 for special purpose amd, as much as it can carry, and 2 run of the mill, what's to be found at a decent price.
asciilifeform: it's expensive, noshit. ( not as painful as if we had a satallite tho!11 )
a111: Logged on 2017-09-15 01:05 mircea_popescu: and you can do your own seals, as a bonus. at the very least have the girl blow on some nail polish.
mircea_popescu: and you can do your own seals, as a bonus. at the very least have the girl blow on some nail polish. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: cuz it's what i do for a living.
mircea_popescu: what are you renting, like a 32U rack ?
mircea_popescu: there's overprovision that's stupid ; and then there's overprovision that's a matter of course. i've more fuel in the tank than ima going to use on the next sortie ; and more girls than i fuck and more food in the fridge than i eat and why the fuck wouldn't i.
mircea_popescu: well, that there's a local party to whatever agreements ; a local someone to sue or threaten to sue ; and in general, it's a good thing to have.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so spend some bitcents buy a small place in shitberg and pretend like you live there what.
mircea_popescu: it's squarely in the class of issues which, provided you have a lawyer pour enough hours into it, ALWAYS gets fixed your way.
mircea_popescu has never experienced this wonder where citizenship is a problem ; but then again whatevs.
asciilifeform: it ain't a costarica, you gotta actually prove continuous residence & employment ( or alternatively being loaded and then you get passport from mr. p personally signed )
mircea_popescu: ideally, gift the man a used laptop with pgp on it.
asciilifeform: afaik in ru that requires a bona fide citizen.
mircea_popescu: make sure you reg a corp and hire a lawyer on location.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with a little bit of travel.
asciilifeform: ( it is naturally possible to mail a machine but i strongly suspect that it is simply a way to give enemy phreee hardware )
asciilifeform: it'd rock if there were already a man on location. but instead it may have to be asciilifeform with very large flat suitcase .
mircea_popescu: sadly, it isn't, which is why this has been a topic for many months now.
asciilifeform: then i found a candidate
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "a good one".
asciilifeform: what's next, d00d with >1 car, is a taxipark ?
mircea_popescu: then they ARE NOT A DC.
mircea_popescu: if it has doubts as to its physical location, it is an isp not a dc.
mircea_popescu: a datacenter is a physical item with a fixed physical location.
mircea_popescu: you talk to dcs. is "$firm" a datacenter ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> o lol look at that, btc down 17%, ethereum 20, bitcoin crash 25, litecoin 30. it's like harmonics. << Ah yeah, just USD noise spike. All altcoins have a few of those as they die
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: he's this d00d, ceo of j p morgan, stands up and does a cackling villain routine whenever btc-usd sheds some chinesium
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What does jamie dimon have to do with Francia Raisa wasting a kidney on some disney washout's lupus?
asciilifeform: völkischer beobachter even made sure to mention a cackling jamie dimon
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 21:27 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714318 << the famous aeorns were plastic except for a few parts.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714464 << i actually had one when slaving for usg ( believe or not, was made ~mandatory~, on 'fire safety' (?!) grounds ) and disassembled in a fit of pique. arseplate -- iron. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( much less a chix )
mircea_popescu: iirc this baby's been pregnant for long enough to make a goat by now.
asciilifeform: do we even have a d00d who speaks cn yet ?
mircea_popescu: and in other "what's #trilema not got ? a chance at surivival" news, what's the story on the chinese woman ? have we hired one yet ?
asciilifeform: there's one right ~next to where i live, massive fortified beauty thing circa '50s with n weeks of diesel, metre-thick walls, etc. and i know it has colo; and many times i tried to lease a cage to be met with 'no, call THEM', 'oh dontchaknow, we sold to Shitcorp last month', 'yeah this is shitco, we never heard of no colo', etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, cucktards hired a buncha pakis, got raped.
mircea_popescu: o wait there was. well, some guy who once met trump visited a russian bath!!!1
asciilifeform: 'but they were provided with an elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations' << but a-ok when clitler lol
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714333 << much chance of survival, seeing how a state of necessity was just declared, and absent servers there's no digital. ☝︎☟︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 16:33 mod6: i feel like im sitting on a bomb now.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714330 << eh don't be silly, so a chair out of ten billion blew. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 16:17 asciilifeform: imho it is interesting and very pete_dushenski's-porche-esque, you can buy a $2k+ chair and still plastic.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714318 << the famous aeorns were plastic except for a few parts. ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Meh, sounds like they didn't have much of a budget
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: is there a kind other than the keith ?
pete_dushenski: guy who uses a lotta american symbology in his very casual clothing line. known for sneakers too.
pete_dushenski: well usg.chrysler used to own lamborghini so it's not much of a stretch to go to usg.ford
BingoBoingo thought eddie bauer deal was with ford so it would be a TrabanMartin or Trabguar
jhvh1: pete_dushenski: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitfinex. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure the code is a valid (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: Meh, get something trackable from the factory like a "Honda Fit Sport", you know it's trackable because "Sport" is in the name
pete_dushenski: (which is now a consideration of mine? hmm. wasn't 6 mo ago!)
pete_dushenski: answer is always "when i was but a boy" or even "just before i was born and the world was still blessedly unburdened by my mortal knowledge"
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: i realise now that the issue with 911 wasn't 911 but WHICH 911. i've refined my tastes in them to gt3 variants alone. the cs/c4s/turbo are too phat butt. it's an enormous range though (20+ sub-variants), so it only figures that there'd be one that'd appeal. much like usa itself. so i'm not a fan of nyc. big whoop! hawaii is still the tits.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Interesting, on the fence between fodder and snore. This is where fence tend to lie, so will decide in a butt.
asciilifeform: oh and incidentally if anyone's been putting off their FG purchase, nao is not a bad time.
asciilifeform: announced 'dump here' because likely very soon i will have nowhere to host a multigb item, for indefinitely long time.
ben_vulpes: train station office era coming to a close; all sorts of crazy flying through the air
asciilifeform: if you were buying 1mil btc, you would discover a very different price ( supposing you were even able to find where. ) and ditto selling.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: only really need one or two exchanges for price signal anywhere in the world. what was mircea_popescu's last estimate of off-exchange trading ? 90% ? and that was a few years ago. surely > now.