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mircea_popescu: (telstra are not the only idiots trying to parlay their edge placement into "value". telecom argentina is possibly the worst offender, along with telefonica etc)
mircea_popescu: (peering is entirely not a different thing from how the bitcoin network works, at that)
mircea_popescu: except in some places (notably, australia, because telstra are imbeciles and want to be paid about 20x). vbut then again SIMPLY EXCLUDING shitholes is not actually a problem.
mircea_popescu: now, as to the matter of prices: the principal matter is whether you peer or you don't peer. peered traffic is FREE. unpeered traffic is about $9 per month per Mbps installed capacity.
mircea_popescu: as per that ancient "you defeat the enemy by outdigging him"
mircea_popescu: japan, australia, mainland, hk, taiwan, sg, koreas etc united by more installed capacity than london/amsterdam/ny etc
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i would be surprised if there wasn't somewhere in teh walls of supersekrit beijing a document describing how creating an equivalent of the north atlantic in the south china sea is a fundamental chinese military/strategic goal for the year 2030.
mircea_popescu: and the origins of akamai lie in consistent hashing much like the origins of alphabet lie in the iterated graph thing.
mircea_popescu: (lewin was one of the people osama sent to their maker)
mircea_popescu: cloudflare doesn't even figure in this kind of discussion. and so on.
mircea_popescu: but anyway. l3 for instance has an installed capacity of 100 PB or so (these are bytes not bits). akamai in the same range.
mircea_popescu: same way i can own a thousand car fleet notwithstanding the "1000 car" has not yet been built.
mircea_popescu: petabit connections are routinely leased ; and if they aren't leased by us that ONLY means we suck and no more.
mircea_popescu: yes, it isn't a secret, but apparently you've retreated into insanity with this whole thing.
mircea_popescu: so your idea of how netflix works is that a bunch of couch dwelling "Criminology" majors queue up before a dc to be shown their inane shit on the dc's wall mounted display ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and those don't run boxes then ? what is it, come out of a netflix toothpaste tube ?
mircea_popescu: and stop with the "unlimited" bs, that's how "blackhatworld" tards express themselves.
mircea_popescu: so : worthless $everything is cheap for the idiots and useless for everyone else, the great achievement of ourdemocracy.
mircea_popescu: the irony isn't even the "not free" part ; but that what this fellow paying two average salaries per head gets is NOT WORTH MONEY.
mircea_popescu: average salary here is ~half that ; and he has three of them.
mircea_popescu: according to the majority of the contemporaries, the correct response is to move about incoherently while vocalizing vaguely and drooling slightly.
mircea_popescu: yes but the problem here isn't tech, it's "what to do when someone says hello".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty much everyone is HORRIBLE at lead conversion, and always has been. internet age eh.
mircea_popescu: i can't even claim that much. irresponsible enough to even know there was anything to doubt.
mircea_popescu: anyway. teh... "department of people deeply concerned with my continued welbeing" let's say is deeply concerned and humbly asks to please not do that again.
mircea_popescu: eh why the hell not, apparently i'm untouchable. cleopatra-as-isis has been reborn in me and no mortal hand can harm such a one or how did it go.
mircea_popescu: i think this now qualifies as the superlative bender, retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: apparently surfers routinely lose limbs to these guys.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other nacht und nebel, i find this morning that yesterday i went skinny dipping a few kilometers off costa rica's principal concentration of crocodylus acutus.
mircea_popescu: "Philine writes to me that she feels absolutely dreadful in spite of the clairvoyante who felt her in the rectum and gave her such helpful guidelines for her behavior".
mircea_popescu: keks, bitcoin crash going to meet litecoin "market cap".
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose you give 16 yo bedouin girl as a love gift ? smartphone enouigh to watch netflix, neh ?
mircea_popescu: and i am starting to see the point of us military strategists a lot clearer thjan i ever did these days. just because the chinese got together a bunch of rockets doesn't automatically mean anything.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's not even that the us HASN'T written "the great american novel", as the historical consideration. it's that IT WON'T. and similarily, it's not that africa never discovered madagascar -- it's that IT NEVER WILL. and so following, bedouins never discovered flight NOR WILL THEY.
mircea_popescu: also the one nuke anyone likes to think they can outrun.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, the nukes never posed any kind of threat to "the continuance of humanity" ; whereas the slow and painless devolvement into a sort of easter island / hawaiian "happines" through embalmed imbecility quite literally does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point here is that it's not a system. i suspect it's a stock. it's something of the nature of the servant and his tribe, not something of the manner of the servant and its tribe.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as i sure as fuck don't have the energy to dribble personally into each one,.
mircea_popescu: and the manservant, impudent as any african, costa rican, argentinian etcetera, NEVERTHELESS OBEYED.
mircea_popescu: but the important point isn't "the people", those don't matter. the important point is that mylord newton, an otherwise busy man, did take time out of penning his alchemical considerations to point out to impudent man servant that if the boots don't need to be shined every night, the manservant doesn't need to be fed ever day, either. DID TAKE THE TIME.
mircea_popescu: and there's lots of heuristics available. like, the nonviolent ones ? always regress. the matriarch-centered ones ? always regress. those with linguistic ergativity ? always regress. and so following.
mircea_popescu: and this is a fundamental differentiator of ethnic groups. some develop and some regress.
mircea_popescu: soon enough it'd be one oil barrel sawed in half on some rickety rock props on a beach somewhere.
mircea_popescu: first, they wouldn't take the garbage out EVERY night anymore
mircea_popescu: imagine how a mcdonalds work if the blacks manning it were in charge.
mircea_popescu: you get a beach resort, however tiny, famous for its rampant prostitution, build a perfectly workable brothel, and the dumb whores there located will self-organise into doing ever less work, until finally it's just standing around.
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking difference here, you understand me ? in costa rica, which is still populated by subhuman stock just like madagascar or egypt or etcetera, what they do with their time is chisel civilisation back down to their herbivore needs.
mircea_popescu: "perfectly capable of sitting inside someone's cellar, hand-making shitty rifles in the unverified belief that ww2 still rages above, cca 1970 ?" YES! certainly. "dumb enough to imagien can't bring acordeon to hospital to break patriarch free because ourdemocracy.,rules ?" absolutely not. "boring enough to just sit on ass and chew hay like a fucking herbivore ?" nope, never.
mircea_popescu: "but mp, how do you know cat isn't reading ? its eyes move..."
mircea_popescu: EXCEPT!!! you see, except the serbs were never this fuckign stupid. i'm not even sure how to qualify it, but there's a substantial difference between the two items.
mircea_popescu: (and no, "you can occasionally get internet" ISNT "internet working".)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think "everything" as we understand it stopped working there cca 1900.
mircea_popescu: but anyone who is either french or lived in france any length of time knows that france is in fact just a dumber, shittier usg. though built way earlier, by FEWER locals.
mircea_popescu: i'd much appreciate a thorough challenge of this point, it's mindboggling.
mircea_popescu: this line yields the very amusingly 1917s socialist view that in order for republicanism to take over, the prerequisite stage is first pantsuitism taking over.
mircea_popescu: madagascar isn't a unique example, either. it's just a very anthropologically convenient one, very clean and pure so to speak.
mircea_popescu: this wasn't a copy job. this was "average human" reaching deep down and reconstructing usg.
mircea_popescu: i am satisfied they had NO FUCKING IDEA what the usg was.