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mircea_popescu: i said it once, you know. aanyway : the original idea (get >=300 rockchips there, in a dozen+ Us) was trashed by practical considerations (as alf pointed out, he can'
t carry 12 us in one go) ; but it'd have required refinancing because you simply did not have enough money to pay for it.
mircea_popescu: but you will have hell on wheel in your hands trying to get more money as a palliative solution to "i don'
t feel like building sales today".
☟︎ mod6: Customers, who's paid, who hasen'
t, what do we own, when are teh bills due.
mod6: asciilifeform: it wasn'
t months. I spent probably 1 weekend hacking on a psql ddl back in march, and ben_vulpes is finally getting around to looking at it now.
mod6: I didn'
t say this was top priority either.
mod6: I don'
t think anyone is arguing otherwise.
mircea_popescu: yes ; but if the present trend continues you won'
t have all that much to read altogether.
mod6: And I can agree, that it doesn'
t have to happen right now.
mod6: Just /SOMETHING/ that doesn'
t require debugging.
mod6: I don'
t care if it's a flat file either.
mod6: We are discussing/thinking about how to recapitalize, get more rockchips, customers. So this is on going. I don'
t think anyone is wasting anytime by any streach of imagination.[
☟︎ mod6: I don'
t think it is a 'blocker', but Mr. Vulpes will have to respond to that.
mod6: Now do I think he's wasting time? No. I'm sure he hasn'
t spent much time on it at all since I even created it, but he would have to say for himself.
mircea_popescu: you've been "managing" the thing for months, haven'
t yet hired a single salesman. what are you managing over there, the transition into bureaucracy ?
mircea_popescu: you find yourself in the unique position of a start-up running out of runway that doesn'
t have AS MUCH AS A LANDING PAGE. suppose i wanted to send people over ; where the everloving fuck do i even send them ?
ben_vulpes: i don'
t think it useless nothing as it will snip significant time off report generation. the pressure from the board is to forge forward with the rockchips, but if there's change to be eked from the shared hosting i should capture that as well, so thanks for the prodding.
mircea_popescu: (english) Moreover, every alteration that takes place in a human body - for example, a state of health or a state of sickness - can be brought down to a question of natural causes, as Aristotle has shown in his 7th book of Physics. And the greatest of these is the influence of the stars. But the devils cannot interfere with the stars. This is the opinion of Dionysius in his epistle to S. Polycarp. For this alone God can do.
T mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, it is strictly my position ; the clouds don'
t fucking aim ; nor does, nor ~CAN~ socialism aim.
mircea_popescu: ~existing~ things don'
t go away ; imaginary nuisances -- do go away.
mircea_popescu: you don'
t put an anti-prng in the fg. why should any of the ai people put an anti-mit or a f(mit) however defined in their behaviour ?
mircea_popescu: they then decided sussman isn'
t welcome either ; eventually they had to make a new "lab", to alleviate both the problem of their pretense to sovereignity, and of the people not caring what they say
mircea_popescu: ignoring is ignoring, you understand, when you "retreat to garage" you aren'
t ignoring, you're alternatively validating.
a111: Logged on 2014-09-26 18:07 asciilifeform: 'to take but one simple example: suppose you thought of the new millennium when you wrote your application back in 1972 -- not only wouldn'
t you be invited to the party, those who knew you had done it right from the start and who probably laughed at you at the time would positively hate you now, and they sure as hell wouldn'
t tell people about you. and the more stupid they are, the more important it would be to
mircea_popescu: "no mother, your son shouldn'
t die to rescrue the ukrs" very different ring to it.
mircea_popescu: they will -- because they know in 1940 if they don'
t they'll be sitting around in 1960 worrying china might come.
mircea_popescu: germany was doomed once it broke the pact. they didn'
t know ; neither did the russkies know (not even stalin, he just got lucky, but lucky with brown underwear). and the british self-importantly gave their ex-contender in the great race two weeks. but by the time they crossed the don, the germans were doomed.
mircea_popescu: somehow "the poles are not the fucking sioux, nutmeg!" just didn'
t turn any wheels.
mircea_popescu: note however that "moscow whip" is a very dubious item altogether, at least in the case of actually authoritarian regimes. ceausescu drove gorby mad with his "what apologize, you fucking apologize, fucker, i wasn'
t there."
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, i can'
t see why not. you just shouldn'
t have expected to get all that much from it, which i don'
t gather you had expected. so no harm no foul.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's what makes danielpbarron 's review thoroughly horrible : he tries to watch the already juiced matter (no, the film of the book wasn'
t very good, because americans) with completely ahistoric eyes, and wonders how they managed to die in car crash on those roads, you can barely go 35.
trinque: it's been ten years since I cracked Kundera, couldn'
t say whether he intended said depiction, or it's just my own digestive process that says so
mircea_popescu: see, there's a difference between work and activity. they're not completely inactive, yes, but they do no work. cuz work is when you know what's gonna come out. if you don'
t know what's gonna come out, it's fucking not work.
mircea_popescu: this is the fucking problem : man who can plow an acre who got a square mile, can'
t start on plowing the acre he can plow because waiting for tractor, except can not trust item he receives actually plows anything. -> famine.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, the problem isn'
t even the demographic-theoretical identified there ("when there's more mice than social roles, mice society collapses, because the demands upon the role fillers are overgreat wrt individual mice biological capacity ; and the path for the role-aspirants is no longer clear, which definitionally is what "society has failed" even means,
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-23#1742439 ) ; but rather informatio
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i find this eerlily apt. the fundamental fact of the neet isn'
t that it's alienated ; but that it lacks the capacity for alienation altogether.
mircea_popescu: rather. farm life is farm life, whadda ya want. waste effort on supporting too many children, pray the mongols don'
t come to merv you out.
mircea_popescu: understand, mom will make paper copies of rifles for kiddy for only just as long as the soldiers pass in the street. once they're gone, once the immediate, obvious stimulus ceases, there's other things to do, so why don'
t you go make your bed.
mircea_popescu: but once the specific environment changed, once there isn'
t a cattle farming interest to join, well... why keep up the pretense.
BingoBoingo: lobbes: Well, what is an almost purely tourist oriented economy? If it isn'
t a type of aquarium...
mircea_popescu: lobbes, it doesn'
t work as well as it works for say ecstasy.
lobbes: asciilifeform: I posed the same "why not take tolerance break" q to them as well. They claim "doesn'
t work" but I suspect they simply didn'
t wait long enough
mircea_popescu: but there's a fucking reason they're "concerned" about "russian spies" rather than chinese spies. "those aren'
t spies, dummy, those are the peopel dropping food pellets in. they should get a good show, put out!"
mod6: ty. it basically is pure luck the old one worked. it won'
t work forever either.
mircea_popescu: the refinery isn'
t "liberal in what it accepts" -- on the fucking contrary, everything around it changes to provide it with the ~exact~ expected item.
mircea_popescu: not likely gonna happen, it doesn'
t occur to anyone to "make sugar illegal" to bring back dat cookie jar feelin'
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, i can'
t follow your logic. how do you explain eg cowrie shells not being a "securitizable asset" by this same logic ?
ben_vulpes: girthy spittoon, i still don'
t understand how the overlays of trinque's musl overlay work properly; not even really which knobs to pull
mod6: Yeah, so our own OS, even if we don'
t know what we're quite doing yet, is more worthwhile than what gentoo has to offer.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-02#1461007 << you know, i wouldn'
t even call it lulz. "Система проверяет применение для начальных коэффициентов составных чисел и выявляет использование в разных ключах одинаковых цикличных коэффициентов (модуль), что может указывать на во
☝︎ BingoBoingo: <fromdeedbot> I mean globally << What part of moving from Southern Illinois to Uruguay on WoT fuel isn'
t global? Gotta circumnavigate or something?
mircea_popescu: reminds me of this chick on fetlife, "So you don'
t want to have a smart discuss, you're here for what ? What do you research here ? Because I'm agree with your description."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hey, i don'
t mind. but understand that avoiding bad habits is a lifelong uncompletable task, there's no magic pill that'll keep you safe from such. certainly contemplation from outside isn'
t much of one.
mircea_popescu: but it didn'
t in fact work. so where do "rock'n'rollers" go when it's disco time ? same place zappa went, neh, to the bottle of bitters.
mircea_popescu: and hence the 1990s, and the "information superhighway" bs. they were going to, poor darlings, subvert the morloch, with a very naive, all-inclusive, republic v0.1, built out of "net neutrality" and wikipedia. except of course for the part where it didn'
t work, it was a splendid plan.
danielpbarron: hanbot, i didn'
t start with the official v wp-wp. i had a very old original .tar.gz
mircea_popescu: it didn'
t become obvious "there's nothing there". what became obvious was the curt cobain problem : that the only ~possible~ move remaining for the "man alone" is suicide.
mircea_popescu: hanbot, i suppose the answer would be asciilifeform 's "bottle". consider this place -- there's people who come and read the logs. every day, in the morning or in the evening or whatever. there's people who write code, there's people who do all kinds of stuff. where were they BEFORE ? they did physically exist, yes, you can'
t say "nowhere". so then ?
danielpbarron: i should say, the linked item is only comments.php ; if you can find the other file i'll send that one too, i don'
t recall which one it was
mircea_popescu: remember 1988 mtv ? peak of live concerts, 120 Minutes was just getting started... whole different story. heck, people who weren'
t complete mouthbreathers even owned tv sets back then.
mircea_popescu: ie, it makes exactly 0 difference to its might whether the web even exists tomorrow or not. but even in this very constrained field, btcbase is a larger source than twitter, or facebook, or ycombinator, or you name it (and yes, any and all of the pantsuit platforms are vying for relevancy in my referral log, month after month after month, they just don'
t get to actually raise to importance on the merits of their own inconsequ
mircea_popescu: xtbook example of abuse doesn'
t curdle anyone's wholly hallucinated "awareness")
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, if it were that close the concrete wouldn'
t be standing at all, though.
BingoBoingo: This hanno guy: "this guy has made similar claims in the past and they were always wrong. if you want my advice: don'
t trust this unless someone has independently checked it."
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think there was ever a system "dedicated to man" that managed to get man to think, though. man will not think, would rather take rape than math questions.
mircea_popescu: and couldn'
t read, count, etc. just, the mass of them wasn'
t anywhere any precious sankt petersburg windowsill flowers ever met.
ben_vulpes: lobbes: especially the bigbox(tm) stores, they don'
t sell anything nonstandard.
lobbes: It took some explaining to Best Buy lady on the phone that I a) was not looking for laptop power cord and b) I didn'
t need the whole power supply, just the cord
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 20:33 mircea_popescu: i dun recall EVER hearing "carolina is the suck" in local drawl ; but people from ohio will literally ask you "what, and you came here ?!" as if they can'
t conceive anyone who isn'
t born there being found there even momentarily.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall EVER hearing "carolina is the suck" in local drawl ; but people from ohio will literally ask you "what, and you came here ?!" as if they can'
t conceive anyone who isn'
t born there being found there even momentarily.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if it doesn'
t come out of plastic and it doesn'
t go on pizza, it's not interesting.
lobbes: But teh weather here is so much better, so I can'
t complain too much I guess