jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 5986.21, vol: 12239.10554141 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 5986.0, vol: 49130.50024663 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 6012.8, vol: 3168.24271521 | Volume-weighted last average: 5987.35546999
deedbot: Raven_Zero voiced for 30 minutes.
Raven_Zero: Thanks for voicing me..though I just want to find out why I need to be here..by looking at your conversations..
BingoBoingo: Well to figure that out, Who is your daddy and what does he do?
BingoBoingo: In other research, the Opteron 6128 is looking like quite the beefcake
BingoBoingo: In other numbers hitting the inbox, an IP Transit price: "After checking in details, the IP transit (1G Global Internet Access) is around HKD310,000/m. It is provided by PCCW Global. 24 months contract is required."
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 23:16 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Didja end up in the Dontesk republic?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 15:58 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ask in english, what.
diana_coman: to recap clues as I see them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things that need to be done there" -> ????? basically this last one is a killer;
☟︎ diana_coman: if there were any cats mentioned I'd have guessed Turkey!
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 16:54 diana_coman: to recap clues as I see them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things that need to be done there" -> ????? basically this last one is a killer;
phf: actually, not even that, i'm not sure where i got the bidet from :o
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 10:24 asciilifeform: omfg hotel has a SHOEHORN
phf: asciilifeform: it's not a fun game, because there's not any kind of hook to go buy. "great coffee and beautiful women" is not it
☟︎ phf: but i'll guess it's either spain or croatia
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 16:56 asciilifeform: not so poor
phf: i suspect in turkey it would've been "they have bidet in public toilets!"
mircea_popescu: in fact if taken to mission district and sultanahmed, civillian would wrongly decide which is "the capital of the technology world of the future"
mircea_popescu: phf hahaha no such thing. throughout arab world, most of turkey included, the standard toilet includes a water spit pipe ~where the watertrap is. with special fauced accessible whiole seated.
phf: come to think of me both of my guesses are poorer than turkey
mircea_popescu: aha. to reiterate, must visit istanbul, at the very least a weekend, take girl across horn to see the train station the romanians bombed, kebab etc.
phf: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of those small plastic bottles they leave even when proper water system is not accessible.
mircea_popescu: AND throughout the egypt that i've seen, they to this day have clay pots with water in the shade every quarter mile or so on the road. notwithstanding that yes you can buy bottled water and did i share that pic of the desert dhl ?
☟︎ phf: asciilifeform: my guess wasn't evaluated!
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 17:00 asciilifeform: and i'ma a little surprised that no one solved riddle yet
phf: that's what makes a riddle a riddle
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 17:36 phf: asciilifeform: it's not a fun game, because there's not any kind of hook to go buy. "great coffee and beautiful women" is not it
mircea_popescu: (carici being yet another way to say cunt in the language entirely made up of ways and means to say cunt)
diana_coman: phf, ahh, bidet, right; tbh that made me instantly think of Italy and it would fit womenz (if south) but I kind of crossed out EU to start with
diana_coman: asciilifeform, hm, mainly because basically socialist
shinohai: Is asciilifeform in Switzerland/Lichtenstein ?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 5825.78, vol: 13271.89076764 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 5818.1, vol: 58539.93720639 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 5834.8, vol: 4063.78115893 | Volume-weighted last average: 5820.33778456
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 100 / 5820.33778456 = 0.01718113341553418
mircea_popescu: !!withdraw 0.01718113 1D5gCE3JkbzUMHQmYkCUhn91Rm4DRfPPJQ
jurov: mircea_popescu: pls process mpex withdrawal, seems there's also stuck order
diana_coman: what, he went to Romania 2nd time and it's waaay better than first?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman possibly he took his own women with this time, so isn't stuck depending on pot luck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's plenty of islam in ro lol. for eg constanta is like 15% sunni.
mircea_popescu: ancient people, too. dobruja muslims are like odessa russians, there before the romanian occupation.
diana_coman: lol; those rubbish bins looked very...Romanian but the "no islam" thing didn't quite fit, hence Hungary seemed more likely
mircea_popescu: heck, temeswar was a raya for centuries. has a mosq and everything.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 19:54 asciilifeform: ancient islam a-ok
mircea_popescu: pointedly it does not, "western civilisation" reduces to the habsburg lands centered on vienna, or if one is 1600s versed the paris-florence-venice axis i guess
mircea_popescu: anglos never were part of western civilisation in any meaningful sense, and their piracy adventures dun change this.
BingoBoingo: Eh, looking more like the price of internet isn't being properly levied upon consumers.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 8*1024 ** 4 / 30 / 24 / 3600 = 3393554.406716049
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 12 / 9 = 1.3333333333333333
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so they wanna eat a 3 per mbps at the lowest setting, looks like, and otherwise willing to let you have it for 50 cents if you commit.
BingoBoingo: Well, I am working on understanding this. Was sorta hoping to get a X per Terabyte figure. Anyways, the billing convention on these terms seems to be outta the month busiest 36 hours are tossed and transfer is averaged.
mircea_popescu: the devil is in the details. "busiest 36 hours ARE SERVED and not billed", or "we will simply cut you from internet 36 hours each month and bill for th erest" ?
BingoBoingo: Served, not figured into the averaging. Hence "95th percentile"
BingoBoingo: Not at all, looking pretty good actually. Even unmetered is only $4.6/mbps which shows transit price is not outta whack, if we had a customer planning to fully saturate connection.
BingoBoingo: Also makes using a U or two on shared hosting service not such a bad proposition.
BingoBoingo: But makes it clear why Netflix tries to plant a cage full of VCRs as clost to every customer as possible.
mircea_popescu: right. i don't recall off hand the phuctor traffic figures, but pretty sure it's not 1mbps sustained over a month ; iirc not even a tenth that. eulora similarily eats in the kbps sustained, and so...
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 1024*1024/8*3600*24*30 = 339738624000
BingoBoingo trying to figure what a Bitcoin node sustains over a month.
mircea_popescu: ~340 GB = 1 Mbps sustained for a month. ignoring the 95% thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo depends on the node, but a non-magistral item maybe 10-50 kbps.
BingoBoingo: Sweet, and having the two 10 Gbps ports is only a $400 portion of the $3840 quote.
mircea_popescu: anyway, prolly get their lowest thing and expand it when you see enough traffic to justify it.
mircea_popescu: ie when 800 + n * 12 > 1400 + n * 11 and so following.
BingoBoingo going to pick up a PCENGINES apu to play with, Ubiqiti has distributors in Brazil, exploring best way to acquire boxes
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo one doesn't help. you gotta mount eight as per alf's magics, i wouldn't bother.
mircea_popescu: you're not an experimental machine building station. if the item exists commercially you use it ; if not whoever aims to whine is more than welcome to produce it himself.
BingoBoingo: I'm thinking u1 rackmount formed aluminum sheet with fans on face apu chasis affixed to sheet, unless alf shares his recipe.
BingoBoingo: But yeah. Way to get monster Opteron 6128 boxes onto rack higher priority