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jurov: "remained standing" isn'
t hard. "they didn'
t kicked me" is.
mike_c: jurov, no, don'
t lie. you could sell him exactly what he has now, but in btc, and he'd probably switch.
mike_c: customer's don'
t know what they want
mike_c: don'
t listen to what they say. he is paying them, obviously it's the best option right now.
jurov: mike_c pls don'
t alienate my customers
jurov: this isn'
t something given on aws
mike_c: it won'
t be cheaper. for the same reasons.
mike_c: yes, i know. but i don'
t think you're disagreeing that colo will have lower reliability?
mike_c: recently? don'
t think so.
lobbes: asciilifeform: unless i misunderstand, jurov isn'
t opening a clinic for the poor << Fair enough. Point taken
lobbes: I wouldn'
t add much value, but I'd work for free as an extra set of hands/eyes. You'd still need someone that knew what they were doing, of course. Plus I wouldn'
t be available 24/7 so maybe I'd be no use lol
mircea_popescu: weren'
t you running an open bash server at some point ?
mircea_popescu: (i don'
t care either way, each works, but i was lulz'd at your militant stance)
mircea_popescu: start it from something that's derpy but works, i say, rather than something that's clever, but doesn'
t.
mircea_popescu: lobbes nah. io should stop spamming. Xuthus i don'
t actually code worth a shit.
Xuthus: mircea_popescu, why don'
t you go and code something ?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: nah man this goes back to why a btc torrent thinger isn'
t worthwhile
ben_vulpes: 'tisn'
t as though i ever had good taste in music beat into me.
mats: 01:41:05 asciilifeform: ... 2) proven as concept in 'linux on hdd head controller' ~2 yrs ago ... << link? a googling wasn'
t helpful
punkman: that's where they started isn'
t it
lobbes: can'
t wait until I know what I'm doing enough to throw off the 'windows shackles' altogether
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 17:35:59; mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you don'
t say. try it while ejaculating suddenly sometime.
pete_dushenski: "The Great Internet Power Grab: We’ve come a long way from Steve Jobs as ‘phone phreak’ to Tom Wheeler as ruler of the Internet." << should i know who tom wheeler is ? if he's someone, why isn'
t he here ?
ben_vulpes: password attacks don'
t cross languages?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what, you think i don'
t get this?
mircea_popescu: The system is designed with simply one outcome in mind: keep the poor with high recidivism rates and minimal social resources in jail-- a sort of half-way house for the disenfranchised-- until you can'
t possibly justify it any longer, and then give them a quick trial, accept the guilty plea ("what guilty plea?") and sentence them to time served and probation-- where you can add further controls.
Vexual: I think if brussexels had a look at northern Australian, they would say 'don'
t bother'
BingoBoingo: I don'
t recall. I'm still deep in the libations that are getting me over the meat odometer rollover.
mircea_popescu: But now things are different. Not since the 1980s, and before that never, has there been this much M&A activity, share buybacks and privatization. While this boosts share prices in the short term, as privateers bid up the price in a takeover, there's a huge downstream cost: the company is no longer public. You don'
t get to profit from it unless you work for it. Each privatized company, or the private equity firm
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:42:35; decimation: that once they are not in the job any more they realize they don'
t have nearly as many friends as they thought they did. The smarter ones do know this. And that's why so many[?] hang onto power. "
mircea_popescu: asking here-- that we are the only ones who don'
t believe these statements were meaningful?
mircea_popescu: "Here's the part Americans can'
t get: why would Iran put them on TV when everyone is going to know it was forced? Unless you are saying that the Iranians, and only the Iranians, are so completely delusional that they actually believe the servicemen were thankful and apologetic, then this show had to appeal to some broader audience. Other people had to believe this was the real thing. Is it possible-- and I'm just
mircea_popescu: "Here's an example I fear no one will understand. The Iranians took 15 British soldiers hostage. The soldiers surrendered without a fight (ironically, so as not to start an international incident), and then pretended to go along with the Iranians. They did the song and dance "we are bad, we are imperialists, Ahmadinejad is good, we're sorry, thanks for being so nice to us" and were eventually released. So I'm sure
t ben_vulpes: these unqualified pronouns don'
t work too well
decimation: it's odd that google didn'
t see fit to send an intern or two over there to digitize what the national archives has
mircea_popescu: well, im pretty sure assbot won'
t allow it for the future. i didn'
t know gribble did
mircea_popescu: "Consider this: In the past 10 years has the distribution you run changed significantly in what it offers over other distributions? I think you'll find the answer is largely no. I do have to give a shout out to openSUSE for the OBS, but otherwise I've used my desktop in the same exact way that I have always used it within the continuity of distribution X,Y, or Z since I started using them. Distributions simply aren'
t f
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: More RAM makes << there's a legitimate "keep blockchain on ramdisk" thing. sadly... it won'
t be feasible. it's luxury.
decimation: disappointingly my costco doesn'
t sell smoked herring
decimation: eh, I don'
t see how the tech is getting cheaper either
BingoBoingo: I don'
t understand either. XFCE straddles the line of minimum/maximum desktop I can tolerate given my small screen size and clumsy fingers keeping me off of leaner solution.
decimation: I don'
t get the general preference for gnome over kde
decimation: "asciilifeform doesn'
t see the appeal of closed source unixen" << I see the appeal of actual people maintaining a unix, closed or open
BingoBoingo: Connects on campus have yet to send the flag and since on every visit lab still intact I assume they aren'
t slacking
decimation: of course, the drive manufacturers couldn'
t put a switch or toggle on the front of the computer
mircea_popescu: i still don'
t see the wisdom of allowing diddling of firmware via data bus.
decimation: well, at any rate I give the netagio people credit - they unwound in an orderly way when the business wasn'
t working out
mircea_popescu: no, in the sense that they simply do not know what happens if it wasn'
t written in hungarian
BingoBoingo: Adlai: is it that hard to imagine that nsa doesn'
t need the manufacturers' text source to backdoor their drives!? << PC9000
cazalla: mike_c, that is specific to #b-a moreso than Bitcoin in general isn'
t it? and anyway, if i pursue this by myself in the short-mid term, it'll reflect on me instead of b-a website
cazalla: pete_dushenski, how do you feel about actually letting the little shits in the playground run amok so that you can gauge how much of a pussy your own kids are if they don'
t stand up to him?
Adlai: it's because PeterL doesn'
t beat scoopbot in public, instead berating the authors
PeterL: no pete_dushenski, I still don'
t know why yours are failing
Adlai: and even if they did, it's probably faster for them to steal it than ask nicely (not that the latter wouldn'
t work... it just takes time and paperwork)
Adlai: is it that hard to imagine that nsa doesn'
t need the manufacturers' text source to backdoor their drives!?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> shoul;dn'
t that really be a function/object/we ? << being a bit sarcastic here boss
mircea_popescu: While this discovery is familiar to readers of my blog, what might be a surprise is what this heralds for our society politically and economically. It isn'
t socialism, or even communism, as I had feared. It's feudalism. It's not 2007. It's 1066."
PeterL: not like I did it on purpose, now I can'
t get any new software
PeterL: I am still on 10.5, I don'
t know anything about the new versions