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mircea_popescu: and
to add
to
that, hearst & co were DEFINITELY pro hitler.
mircea_popescu: to go from
there
to fuhrerbunker in less
than a decade... you need a real idiot for such a
thing.
mircea_popescu: ardly, hypocritical way
the British ruling class did all
they could
to hand Spain over
to Franco and
the Nazis. Why? Because
they were pro-Fascist, was
the obvious answer."
mircea_popescu: " In 1936 it was clear
to everyone
that if Britain would only help
the Spanish Government, even
to
the extent of a few million pounds' worth of arms, Franco would collapse and German strategy would be severely dislocated. By
that
time one did not need
to be a clairvoyant
to foresee
that war between Britain and Germany was coming; one could even foretell within a year or
two when it would come. Yet in
the most mean, cow
mircea_popescu: because
these logs were INSUFFICIENT i swear. i leave for a full few hours and what do i get ? NOTHING
mircea_popescu: if
the whole
thing's out of power your problems are probably closer
to finding enough ak47s rather
than generators.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes perhaps you don't understand what "the
town" means.
ben_vulpes: once you need it so does
the rest of
town.
ben_vulpes: how does renting a backup generator by
the day make sense?
mircea_popescu: actually you can get it on lease, and on quite excellent
terms. with any luck, BY DAY.
mircea_popescu: however,
the point is more along
the lines of "solutions exist"
mircea_popescu: as you might imagine, it's more expensive
to run
than just use
the grid.
ben_vulpes: but you mention a 3mw gennie, so
that's relevant
mircea_popescu: well i dunno what
teh
topic really was cause i'm not so sure i said what it seems
to be
the case i said or something
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much
the lowest "i did something positive for
the world i live in" barrier
they'll ever meet.
mircea_popescu: there are, however, bunches (i'm
told) of people who would like
to do something, but for reasons of barrier of entry, can not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it most certainly cannot be
true
that he cannot get a pogo shipped in. but quite likely
true
that he cannot get a pogo shipped in for 18 usd per. <<< it doesn't even reach
that.
the value of ME running pogos is minimal.
there are N+k**p
things i can do
to halp bitcoin.
ben_vulpes: first gotta resolve
the "embedded" vs "external" question
mircea_popescu: that i never ended up using because...
there hasn't yet been a power outage.
mircea_popescu: or
tell you about how on reports about "power outages" i had all sortos of arrangements in place, including
the option
to have a container generator installed (worth about 3mw)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i distinctly recall
that machine
tools are uncommonly difficult
to obtain in ar, for example << do i need
to show you pictures of
the casa del
transformador again ?
mircea_popescu: the great debate of "with what" is eagerly awaited. im even working
to import
two (2) popcorns for
the occasion.
ben_vulpes: cart before
the horse until
the db's replaced
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: my plaintive cries << it's not a bad plan i don't
think.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes:
there are all of
these
things
that make sense in
the context of it, but... <<< i come fresh from a
three hour session of discussing eulora game model with c people.
trinque: mircea_popescu: maybe
they'll crowdsource a sweet name for wwiii from reddit
this
time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'we've never heard of you' <<< i'll insure against
that one, for cheap.
mircea_popescu: trinque: how many countries have
to be fighting a war for
the phrase "world war"
to apply? <<< ww1 was instituted by gallup poll.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: better
than refreshing a faucet << pretty much
teh point.
mircea_popescu: "oh i hate shootin gelephants and
the empire is
too heavy ; oh how
the latrines stink" is really not adequate for one over
the age of about 15.
mircea_popescu: this "british socialist,
tour of derpage in spain"
thing is wormtalk.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he could have been lord curzon II, or else he could have been
the Russian Lafayette.
adlai is doing
this, shuts up
danielpbarron: dude,
take
the small amount and build some rep; what's with all
the whining?
adlai: i'm not going
to declare in advance
that i want X% of profits, or a Y% upfront fee, if
that's what you're looking for
adlai: so at
this point i'm working further on my code, and waiting
to see if anybody interested in using it has
terms in mind already
adlai: i'm not set on a specific configuration for how such
terms would look; i'm interested
to see what works for
them. mircea_popescu outlined
the
terms he offers people who manage profit centers, and it seems
that he's not willing at
this stage
to risk an amount which is worth my
time
to manage, and
this is understandable
jurov: you seem
to avoid at any costs mentioning concrete
terms
to potential investors in
this chan
adlai wonders whether
that quite does him justice, but arguing on irc gives less of a fuzzy feeling
than becoming
that someone
ben_vulpes: i'm just saying
that i admire your persistence.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 07-11-2014 01:18:27; mircea_popescu:
there is exactly one avenue
to do
that : make it so good some actual
trader starts using it, after which go work for him.
ben_vulpes: <adlai> []
this is actually why i suggested
that for an mpif pc, it'd make
the most sense
to run
the bot on s.mpoe itself << i admire
the guys persistence
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu originally contested
the difficulty of importing heavy
things, saying it was a problem of
the poorly networked
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2014 22:22:37; benkay:
the word i got was
that large,
tech-heavy equipment gets stalled at
the border.
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 06:26:04; mircea_popescu: i live in
the sticks.
ben_vulpes: is
the
typical american
to expect
those
to be hard
to come by in
the "civilized world"?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what is it about
that place
that provides for space and security at such a low cost?
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ben_vulpes: the risk of losing my hands was not worth
the pay.
ben_vulpes: which makes sense, coming from an inhabitant of
the Forbidden City
ben_vulpes: i grow
to suspect
that you see all of
the ussa as a homogenous enforcement environment.
ben_vulpes: and
the guy who ran
the place had his own out-of-sight apartment
that was rarely shown
to other
tenants
ben_vulpes: granted, we had
to run it from
the mains entry point *ourselves*