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mircea_popescu: trinque ^
that sound like sense ? "you get
this rack for a year,
to be paid $x every mon" ?
mircea_popescu: i expect
the correct solution will be weekly payments on yearly contracts. otherwise we end up encouraging antieconomic behaviour.
mircea_popescu: b) btc goes
to $1. you're now on
the hook for
the same 3.5k, but if you didn't change
the BTC
to cash as you received it, you have no way
to cover for it.
this possibility makes just like a, people not want
to pay long
term.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-15 06:28 BingoBoingo: Mind
that ~0.6 ish BTC hit
this year
to home a server would mean ISP exists for next year when FX risk likely
takes more favorable
turn and cost basis starts diminishing
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-15#1738811 <<
there's significant FX exposure in
this scheme. consider
the situations : someone pays you .6 BTC
to whatever. a) BTC goes
to 1mn usd ; he has now paid you 600k
to do work worth 4k or so.
this eventuality
tends
to discourage longer
term payments.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you just say "VAT". it can not be said,
this word, by itself. it must be introduced, and retrospective half-ass, i'm not even gonna mention
the % is rather infuriating.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-15 06:14 BingoBoingo: Mind
that
this includes minimum viable commercial address (comes with locker, desk and coffee) for 244 monthly after VAT
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-15#1738805 << see,
this is
the
terrible habit of poor organisation. you don't say "VAT here is x%, and apparently can be avoided in so and so circumstances with so and so riders which works out
to a minimum Y value past which it's worth doing".
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-11-15 06:12 BingoBoingo: amoratizing fixed costs (corporation, LACNIC IP address assignment) over 24 months rather
than 12 offers little reduction in cost basis
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-15#1738804 << mno, you can't get both margins. either you put your whole cost structure into
the bottom line, in which case you charge
that ; or else you put your recurrents into
the bottom line, charge *2 and amortize your fixed costs out of
the 2nd part of
that *2.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (in other lulz : nigeria
took over south africa
to become africa's largest economy years ago).
mircea_popescu: oh wait,
THEYRE JUST WORDS. and yet
the usg socialist is not ====
the subsaharan retard. because... DIFFERENCE, just like FAMOUS.
they'll give
testimony on
the difference!
mircea_popescu: somehow
the african notion of "famous" does not preclude
the need
to "give
testimony". wouldn't i already know about him if he were famous ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : "gerry john gerryjohn151@gmail.com 197.210.45.130 Submitted on 2017/11/14 at 11:16 p.m. HELLO EVERYONE I AM GIVING A
TESTIMONY OF HOW I GOT RICH POWERFUL AND FAMOUS
TODAY"
mircea_popescu: wer perhaps another user from before used
the same nickname
too << yes. someone else registered
the nick, but didn't set enforcement on it. as a result you can use it (you don't get kicked by nickserv) but can't register it yourself. ask in #freenode if
they're willing
to move it over
to you ; if not, find a diff name and register
that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo check out
the wonders of mother nature! no need
to quarrel!
mircea_popescu: mod6 aha! fucking hysterical. and it's a huge paper-bread franchise
too, all over latam.
trinque: could be as simple as billing monthly in advance, calculating bill as u*$operatingCost*1.15/40 or whatever margin atop you
think is reasonable. $operatingCost denominated in BTC should be going down all
the
time
trinque: curious what happens
to
the price when btc buying power increases, as it likes
to do.
BingoBoingo to bed. Hopes
these numbers/reasoning receive comment.
BingoBoingo: Mind
that ~0.6 ish BTC hit
this year
to home a server would mean ISP exists for next year when FX risk likely
takes more favorable
turn and cost basis starts diminishing
☟︎ BingoBoingo does not know what alf-isp numbers look like, but does not imagine
too different
BingoBoingo: The meat of
the cost is in rack with connectivity
BingoBoingo: Doing anything in a Zona Franca would allow for avoiding VAT, but it would put
the bill for a commercial address close
to
the cost of
the rack and come with pressure
to hire 3 descendants of Italian refugees
BingoBoingo: Mind
that
this includes minimum viable commercial address (comes with locker, desk and coffee) for 244 monthly after VAT
☟︎ BingoBoingo: amoratizing fixed costs (corporation, LACNIC IP address assignment) over 24 months rather
than 12 offers little reduction in cost basis
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 05:20 mircea_popescu: your cost basis is ~200 per server. you can rent
them for 3-400 as such, or can give out vpsen, which are more productive. perhaps even "shared" if particularily interested into it.
trinque: bit steep. how'd you arrive at
that?
BingoBoingo: For
trinque and other parties interested in shipping
their own boxes, considering
the current cost basis and exchange rates
to get a server homed for
the first year is looking like ~0.57-0.6 BTC per rack unit (minding
that especially power hungry servers may count as multiple rack units despite
their physical footprint)
trinque: if
tits register a new key, are
they
thereby new
tits?
a111: Logged on 2015-08-29 19:03 asciilifeform:
trinque: btw it was not clear
to
the folks who ran
the camps,
that
this naturally-occurring system of hierarchy was a net plus re: net
tonnage from
the mines. hence
the 'vory/suka wars' mircea_popescu referenced, a famous case where su authorities
tried
to monkey with
the 'org chart'
mod6: ah, ok.
thx
trinque
trinque: you can just register a new key,
though
mod6: ah, ok. well... im not sure what
the protocol is
then for changing your nick in deedbot, but I'm sure
trinque needs
to assist you with
that/
mod6: are you sure it wasn't you
that set it up so long ago?
mod6: and if
that person grabs it back with 'ghost' or whatever,
then you're sol.
wer: perhaps another user from before used
the same nickname
too
mod6: so when you connect
to irc do you do
the
typical 'identify' command with nickserv ?
mod6: not
too much younger
than mine even
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i've not worked as a caretaker of
the profoundly retarded, neh, so can't say i experienced directly << Do you want
to come visit before we depart for our seperate ventures? I can make introductions. Maybe even get you some shifts at
the BingoBoingo store.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
the double entendre is now a
triple entente. << You probably wouldn't be interested in Miss
trainwreck because height is in
the range
that is short for you and ergonomic for me
wer: there's
this message "This nickname is registered. Please choose a different nickname, or identify via /msg NickServ identify <password>."
mod6: it seems like you already did an "!!up"
to deedbot.
mod6: my first
time in .mx many many years ago, i was like "Bimbo Bread? wtf, don't
they know..."
mod6: <+ben_vulpes> quit drivin on
the sidewalls girl << lel
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. let's move
to a diff
topic lest i
thoroughly depress myself.
mircea_popescu: wtf does he need
the difference between surround-ing and surround-ant ? mordant is not a word, is it ?
mircea_popescu: has "a conception" of seasons. a sheep's notion of
the world surroundant.
mircea_popescu: that's
the great "progress" of agriculture :
the shepherd's sheep were replaced by bypedal farmers.
mircea_popescu: farmer, like
the sheep
that he IS, merely follows
the herd, and dies with it.
mircea_popescu: shall we now do
the incomprehensible seed ? all
the way
to
the witch doctors, just as good as medicine ?
mircea_popescu: nothing is ever signalled ; not even one way streets. because
the local never ventures outside of spaces it knows, so doesn't need signals. why not ventures ?
mircea_popescu: you may, on a novel road, wonder if it's a dead end. i don't wonder
that. i know it's a dead end. because no CONCEPTION of grid, see. it's not
that
they failed
to implement it. it's
that
they don't realise such exists.
mircea_popescu: cuz it's a stretch of
the imagination in a way not commonly required
to stretch.
mircea_popescu: it can. hence, for instance, no roads here cross.
they loop. dja even grok on your own what i fucking mean by
this ?
mircea_popescu: you
think, "how could mind exist,
that fails
to understand every plane has underneath system of coordinates".
mircea_popescu: dja understand, asciilifeform, what my bizarre address MEANS ?
to you, it's just a curio. you readily fail
to realise
that
the CAUSE of
that is
that local simply has no notion of cartesian space.
mircea_popescu: they both sow and reap in
the same way
the same
things : incomprehensible seeds on uncomprehended space.
mircea_popescu: they both have
the ~exact same notion. "follow group and moo."
davout: "Let's as X
to accept buttcash donations"
mircea_popescu: the problem with "tide lifts all boats" is
that where boat is comes as function of boat not function of "tides".
mircea_popescu: "years of infighting" ? what, over
this week-old fart ?
davout: exact same nonsense, "raise funds for marketing campaigns", "ask merchants
to accept it", "tipping bots", literally
the exact same
things
davout: the
thing
that amuses me, is
that
they seem
to be rehashing exactly
the same nonsense as proper bitcoin reddit was doing 3 or 4 years ago
davout: but i'm sure
they'd accept
the former,
to "raise awareness"
phf: it might be a sign of old age,
that you attract
those
tiny kittens, and while
they
talk you're like "jesus fucking christ you're so dumb", but
then you
tell
them
to do a little
trick and
they do it almost correctly, and you're like "oh hey you're educable, neat, what else can you do"
BingoBoingo: I am learning so much from her
talking about her shopping process for next motor carriage
phf: hehe, somehow i read every single
thing
that BingoBoingo wrote about
the girl as some form of double entedre
jhvh1: BingoBoingo:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: That corresponds
to my experience negotiating with
the (Cantonese speaking) chinese
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is
this code for "bb got laid" << Nah, she's a white girl. Practically has a Cherenkov glow of warning signs, but is making an effort
to stay sober. Is however a source of entertainment watching
the petite weapon of mass destruction operate. Much as
the BingoBoingo is a valuable customer service lab, driving
this kitten around is valuable wmd development lab.