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mircea_popescu: it's a ddos vector dood. i'm not paying to get a rack so that enemy has a method to burn my engineer work hours. wtf.
mircea_popescu: no computer is, ever was, or ever could be worth this much love.
mircea_popescu: what, and fly every time a computer needs a new buttplug ?
mircea_popescu: and their historical hallucinations of sovereignity etc do promise a lot of idiocy in that vein.
mircea_popescu: if it's "two weeks to find out if you have to wait two weeks more or not" is how everything is done, utterly not worth bothering with.
mircea_popescu: which brings to the fore the q "do we even wanna deal with russia".
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine the country actually works without some kind of such service though. i mean really, how do yo uget a wrench, walk to factory ?
mircea_popescu: so basically russia argentinized itself, or what is it.
mircea_popescu: or rather, that's why normal people don't pick a hill in the midle of the jungle to plop down servers on.
mircea_popescu: i definitely want the dc to provide the uplink with w/e guarantee they can manage. i get it, outside of nato 99.999% isn't so common, but whatever they got.
mircea_popescu: ie, approximately, "wind hurts cables, charged clouds block radio, thick clouds block satellite, fuck it all."
mircea_popescu: <mp> pai am si ramas. adica : cind bate vint au problema cablurile, cind is nori incarcati are problema radio si cind is densi are problema satelitye uplink. intre cele trei m-o tot chitait doua zile de am cedat nervos si m-am dus sa ma culc ieri
mircea_popescu: eh, fuck the works. lemme quote from minigame boardroom : <dc> aia, am crezut ca na, ai ramas si fara net de la vanturi alea
mircea_popescu: anyone inclined to go "oh i'd have done a much better job" after any particular doing is going to find himself buried under a thick wall of "why the fuck didn't you DO IT then!".
mircea_popescu: phf` well, on the other hand we gotta start somewhere. it's an adventure!
mircea_popescu: the more of a chain is wot-illuminated, the better link control.
mircea_popescu: so tell gentleman to make himself an account neh ? easier to comm here than via email or w/e anyway.
mircea_popescu: phf` anyway, we're getting, imo, the smallest lockable, stand-alone item. whichever that is. in no case less than 4u, except really, we much prefer to discuss by the kw and gb, as seen in the convo earlier.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's good. also want more than 1 of these.
mircea_popescu: phf` so the question is very specifically, what do they take, and how do we sort it out ; it's in no case a "let's filter out whoever doesn't take bitcoins"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i recall mod6 sending me a proposed draft for something at some point, but also weeks ago.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this "hire chinese chick in china" thing's been ongoing discussion.
mircea_popescu: phf` i don't specifically care what they take ; but whatever it is they take, we'll have to figure out a process.
mircea_popescu: ah you can just handle rouble ? send you 10btc, you send out w/e 2.5mn rou or w./e it is ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is why you get rack : so you can specify something like 14.4KW and 24 Gbit link and then sort it inside.
mircea_popescu: every nonprofit has one, including nonprofits that don't actually exist.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-06#1721786 << this, fwiw, isn't even the giveaway it used to be. i personally supervised the release of piles upon piles of posters in us university campuses, for a very modicum costs. people off fiver just print what you give them, and put it up. nothing keeps you from having them print something decent, and with the abundance of "kids who fucked around with adobe illustrator instead of doing t
☝︎ mircea_popescu: on the home front : we clearly need a box for phuctor, i will also want a box for eulora ; there's also need for a third box for general purpose bitcoining/qntra/etc. that's three, plus whatever anyone else wants to add. iirc we also got 3 box servers ready to fly out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nevermind that. many worse ways to waste money ; not many better.
mircea_popescu: to quote the celebrated mr wolf, "get out of the sticks, boys."
mircea_popescu: you know the above ru may well be a case of "we don't deal with weirdos trying to get 1u for 1mo"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really don't see point of buying less than 1 rack.
mircea_popescu is not even kidding. ~1.1 liters or so. with ~1 liter being the low-average, in the sense of "average computed after excluding the outlying 10%"
mircea_popescu: "and why did you bury this car halfway in the mud, mr X ?" "well, gotta produce cars for our own consumption, postmodern free trade world. what can you do."
mircea_popescu: all these vast empires of grandiose technological achievements which upon examination fail to actually exist in any meaningful sense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you talk to teh russkis in russian neh ? what foreigner ?
mircea_popescu: heh. the errybody wants to not-do anything extends to dcs, does it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but specifically re the colocation part ?
mircea_popescu: lobbes turns out i named Framedragger twice, but the first instance was supposed to be you lol/
mircea_popescu: speaking of ^ asciilifeform , how's the isp thing going ?
mircea_popescu: we're supposed to think he's respectable because he was purportedly inactive in EXACTLY the same manner we'd have been supposed to think him respectable for being active, in the same place a century prior.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the amusing bit to my ear was the implicit "only good citizen is citizen who isn't doing anything"
mircea_popescu: this is about as long room service takes in the god forsaken shithole.
mircea_popescu: anyway, consider asciilifeform : dood starts firing at 10pm, swat makes it in (as a "jumble", even) at 11:20.
mircea_popescu: exact equivalent of that "russian geologist bad hunter" joke
mircea_popescu: teh russian ww2 snipers sorta come close, but not rly.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, either are many degrees of magnitude more valuable than any us citizen ever deployed in an armed conflict.