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mircea_popescu: and it all comes back to should-have-beaten-the-wives, of course.
mircea_popescu: if i write "roses are red" and some douche goes "by roses he means milk, amirite ?" the failure of the douche's companions to knock him one upside the head does not translate in my having left any kind of hole in my text ; nor does it enact changing it to "roses are red and by roses we do not mean milk" into being reasonable. it's not fucking reasonable, the douche will just go "oh, by red he meant square"
mircea_popescu: the pretense that commerce clause enables washington bureaucracy is exactly like the usual fare of prison toughs. "you dropped your soap".
mircea_popescu: i'm sure "the commerce clause" gives random swampocrat full authority to legislate squirrel rights.
mircea_popescu: trinque this "state / usg" distinction carried water pre-lincoln.
mircea_popescu: could run us elections out of this material, same exact substance.
mircea_popescu: it's either "website printing random numbers" or else "usg mouth piece" or else "chinese exchange that does no exchanging"
mircea_popescu: of course the question of "Change it to what" rears its ugly head. there's still no price signal in btc, no more than there was back in 2015.
mircea_popescu: looks more like some 30yo douche found pics going through "his" "gf's" phone, set up craiglist spam robot.
mircea_popescu: trinque shinohai meanwhiule deleted. thanks to scriba's archiving service i could read it.
mircea_popescu: davout i don't get it, what'd you ask around for ? people in the wot who you know but we somehow don't ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "who could have predicted failure to pay bills results in power outage" "california"
mircea_popescu: also, emily blunt is a fucking gorgon, what are all these people smoking. i'd rather watch barbara streisand gargle.
mircea_popescu: dumb broad and her lazy, ignorant teenaged sister go into business cleanning up crime scenes, start a fire.
mircea_popescu: was a film re this, pretty bad but relevant in context, what was it...
mircea_popescu: (baseline is, young couple with nary a clue "start business", get reamed by bureaucracy.)
mircea_popescu: in no conceivable presentation is this a low hanging fruit. the odds of it actually being molested are lower than baseline
mircea_popescu: recall, the whole "us wants base" debacle ? diego garcia ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah, gotta be independent, they got a dispute with the uk over chagos.
mircea_popescu: afaik it was indepoendent. not been keeping much track.
mircea_popescu: but you're people not trees, people travel for their job all the god damned fucking time.
mircea_popescu: the only substitute i would consider from the fiat world would be a bulletproof variant, because i will literally not deal with peons who do not at least declaratively claim to not follow usg law.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger no, re-re-read the line i said read insistently. you do get some boxes for vps ing out of. either because cheap or because obsolete etc.
mircea_popescu: because this is exactly what i wanted to do three hours ago and couldn't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope. a solved instance of this problem would be me going "hey x, i want a new server for eulora, what do you got that's good and where do i send the fuckgoats" which returns within a day or two with options and quotes which i pay which results in the server being live sometime next week.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the idea is to resolve the problem not to self-lick the icecone.
mircea_popescu: gotta keep it short lest it ends up longer than traditional slas.
mircea_popescu: "no openssh no shit compiled with gcc > 4 no stuff from 3.x python no..."
mircea_popescu: besides, you're supposed to maintain relations with multiple dcs anyway.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger i have nfi, but i know for a fact there's nothing in tmsr or in nature that says "person must provide impossible object in regular course of business".
mircea_popescu: other than watching horses spin around on a plate-sized island.
mircea_popescu: davout what are you doing fgor a living these days anyway ?
mircea_popescu: it's just not fucking worth it trying to "t&c" so to speak.
mircea_popescu: notion seems to be that human psyche's principal job in average human is protection from change.
mircea_popescu: notrly, actually. /me recently ran into one i recall from 2007. continous decade in bizniss!
mircea_popescu: about half of all the ones i personally know (ie, middle class tech kids) ended up there this way.
mircea_popescu: eh get out. pretty much the only way independent, tech minded kid can feed himself today is to do a good job of running an isp.
mircea_popescu: prolly cleannest item on a per-size basis known to the tubes.
mircea_popescu: trinque i seriously wouldn't expect this sort of problem. who the fuck is going to be doing that, i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the important point here is that the elimination of attack surfaces is sure to produce vacuum packed spherical chickens. it is a necessary quality of physical existence to have attack surfaces. that's how you get laid, also.
mircea_popescu: can convert large piles of btc into tits if you feel like, what.
mircea_popescu: for years google was fulla "oh, mp IN DANGER OF BEING EXTRADITED!!11". experts in things and matters, quora style.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform come to think of nobody, afaik there exists ONE SINGLE WEBSITE on the whole internet for the whole internet's existence that documents the "hey, check out that time usg got told to go dangle" also.
mircea_popescu: huge timesavers, though, eliminating all the gunk empire idiots need to interface with each other's idiocy.
mircea_popescu: if one needs to read a pile of boilerplate to not be stupid, the pile of boilerplate ain't gonna help anyway.
mircea_popescu: afaik nobody has to date wrote that blog post, "hey, check out the one time some rebel threw molotov into a dc!"
mircea_popescu: makes for a great article on your suddenly eminently followable blog.
mircea_popescu: customer had a raid, will be fixed when dc gets around to hotswap anyway.
mircea_popescu: and besides, you were here every day anyway even when it didn't pay you anything.
mircea_popescu: your job does not include "24/7 customer support", because it doesn't have why to include it.
mircea_popescu: incident is either that there's a flood/meteor/volcano, in which case you're not needed, because dc will handle it itserlf ; or else that customer fucked up his machine, in which case he should have frucking known better and fuck him.
mircea_popescu: get the gf involved, if more hands are needed send her to the lesbian club to come back with another.