asciilifeform: our friends at ft. meade call this 'NONSTOP'☟︎
asciilifeform: watch the output with a receiver, see the little fuzz on the wave?
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: suggested experiment. take a radio transmitter (a household walkie-talkie will do) and transmit, with a computer sitting nearby.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'watch this video of Yanukovych’s snipers murdering unarmed protesters and tell me who the real fascists' << lol
asciilifeform: trolling or total ignorance of the engineering realities. which?
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: wifi. with ssl, right. troll much ?
asciilifeform: 'he crowds in Kiev, which can swell up to a million on a good day and are always in the hundreds of thousands, are there out of their own homegrown sense of outrage, not because some State Department bureaucrats willed them there' << author knows, or not, what it costs to feed & shovel shit for 1M-strong crowd ?
asciilifeform: used to just piss thing out into emacs orgmode but it helps when people harangue you to remember shit.
asciilifeform: i'd venture to guess that there are many romanian startups. just not registered officially.
asciilifeform: so for certain values of 'business' - it wurks.
asciilifeform: afaik the u.s. socialist party was run from inside of a jail for a while.
asciilifeform: it's a lottery to the fellow who doesn't know the rng seed.
asciilifeform: the lottery model applies when you are (from our point of view) a total wildcard.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: so what are you wasting time with us for? go rob someone
asciilifeform: day 1: a certain mr. smith wins lottery, $100M, lights $100 with $100 full of cocaine, on tv. day 2: stinking bum knocks on yer door - 'lend me $5.' you: 'why should i lend to a stinking bum?' bum: 'if i'd had $5, i could've won just like smith'
asciilifeform: (which local government requires for clinical trials)
asciilifeform: sometimes you just can't play. i, for instance, might like to start a pharma company, but i checked my sofa cushions and there is not $1B to be found therein
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: nope. and i'm not a baron, duke, anything, no titles of nobility
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: i know what you'll answer: 'having a day job sucks.' and sure. but then you can pay for hardware, prototype runs, etc. without begging
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: if i were anyone else, i'd swallow this. but i'm doing much the same thing you said you did (hardware startup) but without passing begging hat
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: traditionally, one first secures capital and only then gets on the hook for business obligations (employees, factory floor, etc.)
asciilifeform: just take one of the loyal men and order him to get temporary job and borrow.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: so you built the mexican factory prior to, rather than after, securing funding. this is not a fatal mistake
asciilifeform: for the latter, you just need a human with some proof of income
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: around here, you only need collateral in the usual sense for a cash loan, but not for 'revolving credit'
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: take one of your loyal men and order him to do it, then
asciilifeform: these people salivate, they dream, of lending money
asciilifeform: they try to shove these things down your throat here
asciilifeform: i'm not the least bit of 'rockefeller' but i shred & throw out 3-4 unsolicited 'platinum' cards in the snailmail every week or so
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: if you take some employment (even temporarily) bank will lend you $.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: then why not go to a bank?
asciilifeform: am i mistaken in my understanding that you don't like the 'paying back' part ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was 'pki' crapola all the way down
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in case this isn't obvious, it is trivial to patch a chump's ms-outlook to color a mal-signed message the requisite colour.
asciilifeform: a little like the 'opengpgsmartcard' but more winblowsy
asciilifeform: card had mug shot and a serial number (for being taken prisoner, among other things! because contractors can also star in beheading vids.)
