27900+ entries in 0.202s
mircea_popescu: art is condemned as "lacking broad meaning" or as "unrelated to real life" these accusations often disguise the fear that the exact opposite is true -- that this deviation has too much meaning and bears too acute
a relation to life to be reconciled with the common myth."
mircea_popescu: (note that all this directly ties into any random throe of socialism you might pick. say, the conteporary focus of usg pantsuit on disucssing "priviledge" -- directly because imagining an uncommonality of situation makes
a fine last ditch effort to salvage the other commonalities "much more important to us".)
mircea_popescu: poor marx, you know, and his delusions of "man liberated from the necessity of labour and then from the fetishism of market will finallty be an artist!!!". nigga say wut, take the cow's milk and hide, it goes back to being
a baby, it doesn't become
a philosopher.
mircea_popescu: (which both informs and explains ancient republican tenets such as "use whatever fucking language you're using" and so on. and which plainly explains why faux elites of the mass movement, be it weev or yarvin or that schmuck in "black mirror" or the "pua community" or w/e focus on
a. providing
a "sure fire" method through which b. you too, ~whoever you may be~ can whatever. this is necessarily and of its own blood and bone wr
mircea_popescu: and that the failure works exactly as rosenberg describes : in trying to elide the commonality to situation, they recourse to
a hallucinary commonality of experience, and method.
mircea_popescu: and that it hasn't merely failed happenstantially, but that it has failed necessarily and substantially : there can not be such
a thing as
a herd pov of human experience, simply because herd perspectives are falsifying, and in THAT of being of the many, therefore they are false.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-24 18:22 asciilifeform: ( recall mao's, when asked 'was french rev
a good idea' 'too soon to say' )
mircea_popescu: and that these are irreconcilable : either human experience will be discussed in terms of the elite, or of the herd. and that an multi-secular attempt at
a discussion of human experience from
a herd perspective is what
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-24#1818281 question hinges on.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: 's "palace" as preserved in folklore includes all the features of
a well-to-do peasant's house, and activities there pertaining. what's to keep the king from going to wait in the veranda ?).
a111: Logged on 2015-01-21 01:37 mircea_popescu: very common problem people have on the internet, the "everyone is as stupid as me / everyone's
a goat the same gender and age as me" issue.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-10 19:22 phf: hmm, cp101pa hardware is really flaky, or perhaps i got
a dud unit, because the "random shutdowns" "can't wake up" "stuck in
a turn on/turn off mode" issues persist
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-10#1833262 << i traced the problem to wear and tear of one of the wires that runs from motherboard to the screen around the hinge area on the power plug side. the wire coating was damaged, and the wire would get in contact with the frame. it's the kind of issue you'd see on an old laptop after
a decade of use, but i guess in this case chineseum
☝︎ trinque: could have sworn I saw
a second one
trinque: another thing to consider is whether you're encouraging people to pay for 12mos of service upfront. it buys you runway, puts some extra cash in your hand for adspend or w/e serves bringing on more customers. right now I'm compelled to wait another month at month to month to see what the spread is next month, and you have
a bit less cash to wield.
trinque: fair or not, it's
a problem you have
trinque: there are
a finite amount of "the interface slipped thousands of funnybux between auction and invoice" that I will eat, and I will proably eat more of them than other customers that don't know you as well
trinque: mod6: I understand there are challenges; I'm also trying to be
a model customer for you, and while I generally trust you to do sensible things, $invoiceDate = rand() isn't be great for your business either.
mod6: The fact is, until we have
a steady stream of usd coming in, I hesitate to put
a date on it -- can only say at this time, "will do best to have them out as soon as we can after the auction". It's my fault that I didn't start invoicing right away. I mearly did not, because I thought that these were sent at the end of the month.
trinque: can still make
a commitment and after that we're still people who communicate
mod6: But who is to say that I don't get hit by
a bus on AUgust 4th, and then it's not complete in time.
mircea_popescu: anyway, part of the problem is that the saw teeth are
a little overlarge, basically. too few auctions.
ben_vulpes: mod6: if invoice day is the 15th on
a month, figure you can close the auction before then?
mircea_popescu: trinque the concept is sound, "i'm not eating random spreads", but in practice,
a) do you specifically want to repurchase what you spend in short time or at optimuim price ? ie, "you bought all you were going to buy at 6k, what do you care".
mod6: i know it sounds ideal to say, for instance, "auction closes on 10th of month", "invoices will start going out on the 11th". However, there is no way to know if the auction will be completed. At this time, it's
a very touch-and-go thing.
trinque: that's
a "whenever I want"
trinque: ben_vulpes: that is not
a date
ben_vulpes: invoice date will be right after mod6 clears sale of btc and produces
a price signal going forward
trinque: so "ideally" nothing, can we get
a date for invoices please?
lobbes: mircea_popescu: this makes
a lot of sense, ty. Ima read diana_coman's blog post you referenced and study Mocky's style of communication. I will then provide
a proper eta tonight
a111: Logged on 2018-07-26 01:37 mod6: *nod* was just hoping to find that btc/fiat price. I never did find it. Roughly, I think the price was about $6800 when it would have transpired. But I'll give others
a chance to chime on this before I make
a June invoice for The Foundation.
mircea_popescu: because unlike the empire, where they speak to feel good, like birds chirping, the republic has the log and the mechanism of inference, one can very effectually land self in soup. all it takes is apply the "i want everyone to be happy" imperial process for
a few passes, until you've loaded yourself into such
a ball of inference no one can possibly managed.
mircea_popescu: consider that the "top of hopper" item ALSO means, and what it means in this context is "i've not done anything for two weeks seeing how i've not yet touched my top of hopper" "but mp... i got distracted..." "then WHY do you even have
a top of hopper concept, if distraction's the law of the land ?"
mircea_popescu: so saturday we'll be having the same discussion in the same terms, "why have you [implicitly] promised something you didn't deliver", which is just not
a good way to go about things.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-26 19:47 phf: !Qlater tell lobbes not sure that you really need to introduce emacs into the mix, if it's not your first language. an exception in
a thread ought to log itself, but you can explicitly hook into debugger machinery and capture it manually: common lisp has *DEBUGGER-HOOK*, which is documented in hyperspec. sbcl further adds sb-ext:*invoke-debugger-hook*. you should also check that those values are nil after you load your
mod6: lobbes: As
a courtesy, Pizarro would like to let you know that your quarterly rockchip rental is up for renewal after July 31st. Just
a heads-up. You can renew now, or on August 1st (or thereabouts).
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, rather changes the model from "What foundation got" to "what foundation did". i really don't see that's such
a loss.
trinque: when you invoice someone, this is what you're doing, right? requesting
a payment
jurov: in
a sense, neither/both of us
a111: Logged on 2018-07-26 00:01 mod6: trinque: Question for ya regarding how jurov can make
a payment for The Foundation's hosting fees at Pizarro: Is there
a way that I can get an outside BTC address to give him that would go directly to my deedbot wallet? I see that I can do `!!deposit amount`, which might work, but it could be days before
a payment is made. Is this
a problem? Thoughts?
phf: !Qlater tell lobbes not sure that you really need to introduce emacs into the mix, if it's not your first language. an exception in
a thread ought to log itself, but you can explicitly hook into debugger machinery and capture it manually: common lisp has *DEBUGGER-HOOK*, which is documented in hyperspec. sbcl further adds sb-ext:*invoke-debugger-hook*. you should also check that those values are nil after you load your
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what else can it be ? nation of africa is nation of africa, has not produced any new ideas ever seeing how ~that's what it is~. definitionally, if you create
a "set of all morons" you're not to expect them to not be morons.
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be
a "we're all equal and interchangeable therefore so are you" and "in order to swallow things too big to be swallowed first cut them into parts" and "if anyone gets in your way say the magic words" and so on.
spyked: ^ ftr, I'll be away starting tomorrow for about
a week. I'll use this key during the interval.
mod6: What do you find senseable for
a discount?
mod6: Turns out that there is
a mark-up, as opposed to
a discount for yearly.
mod6: ah, fair point, i gotta figure out what the discount would be on
a year-contract might be.
mod6: *nod* was just hoping to find that btc/fiat price. I never did find it. Roughly, I think the price was about $6800 when it would have transpired. But I'll give others
a chance to chime on this before I make
a June invoice for The Foundation.
☟︎ mod6: mircea_popescu: S.NSA was paid up through June 30th, 2018 for dulap's colocation. We can do another quarter (back dated to July 1st) that will carry S.NSA through September 30th, 2018 for
a total of: 0.06251472 BTC (0.02083824 BTC/mo). If this is agreeable, let me know, or if you have any questions.
mod6: The Bitcoin Foundation will make
a payment for June, but I need to determine what the price point was for the month of June. I'm going to dig through the logs to see what I can find, but if anyone can help me out in this capacity please let me know. Thank you.
mod6: trinque: Question for ya regarding how jurov can make
a payment for The Foundation's hosting fees at Pizarro: Is there
a way that I can get an outside BTC address to give him that would go directly to my deedbot wallet? I see that I can do `!!deposit amount`, which might work, but it could be days before
a payment is made. Is this
a problem? Thoughts?
☟︎ esthlos: not to trivialize, but are you
a schopenhauer fan then? or
a more broad idealist?
mircea_popescu: rather that we manage to will
a coherent approximation of reality into existence. because it's what we're doing, yes, and we need all these complex tools to keep it from becoming either self contradictory, disjointed or else derealized.
esthlos: that we can assemble
a semi-coherent reality is only topped by the existence of
a semi-coherent reality
mircea_popescu: the thing with that is, people obviously don't fly about the room doing 100 body lengths
a second while catching bugs and jumping right out of inept frog's mouth all cool as shit.
esthlos: but surely,
a dense subset of these sets are uninteresting? there has to be some mechanism to reduce things to some polynomial blowup. or are things really just beyond our grasp?
mircea_popescu: omfg only
a hundred times explicitly ? wink wink drudge drudge.
esthlos: you know, I was in fiat job today, and I realized how badly I needed
a global namespace for threads. no wonder no one get anything done
mircea_popescu: and when followed, render the logs exponentially larger, because wait
a fucking minute, is THAT implied the other implication of item from three days ago ?
mircea_popescu: well, alf's oft peculiar assumption set isn't what i had in mind when discussing information density. but instead, two aspects : on one hand, that the amount of learned refrences is staggering even for academic discourse (the academitards cheat, by selecting
a very narrow set of possible reference points and agreeing on it in advance) ; and then the more one knows, the more things unfold, exactly in the manner i end up watchi
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 22:36 mircea_popescu: "Somewhat fortunately Balsamiq was too successful for that, and Giacomo was forced to hire more and more people. Balsamiq is now being built by 25 members, who service around 0.5M customers and manage 10,000 new transactions
a month. All of it generating about $7M
a year." << this is actually
a model-run business. had nfi mp-style even exists in fiat world, but lo and behold. took 10 years to get to 7mn
a year, sustainably.
mod6: heheh, this is
a fair point here.
ben_vulpes: mod6: discount for paying for
a year in advance, there are also two fuckgoats in that machine
mod6: I'm gonna be around
a bit, but we can always talk about what you wanna do with Dulap tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: that's why it'll work fine. seems to me it creates
a symbol when asked, but only checks once !!v'd. since i've not done that yet, it didn't matter you hadn't yet !!v'd atthye time i !!pay-i'd.
mod6: anyway, sorry about that, it took me
a few minutes to get the invoice processed. not sure if it let you pay that invoice before I did the whole !!v thing.
mircea_popescu: "So this week's post is late." has such
a ring of familiarity about it.
mircea_popescu: let's see if we can get you sorted out with
a whole coin :D
mod6: ben_vulpes: any comment on this when you get
a chance? ^
mod6: mircea_popescu: um, I actually don't know what was factored in for the whole year. my guess is that one may have had
a discount for paying
a whole year in advance. where this number has
a bit of
a higher margin for month-to-month.
mod6: So the 0.03542985 includes the price of the physical box, and
a charge for rack space. we broke this down into
a daily cost, then multiplied it by 19, as we figured this out on the 12th.
☟︎ mod6: Yup, gotcha. Will fire one up here in just
a few moments.
mod6: If you decide to go-production with this machine after July, we'll then add in the new drives (when they arrive) and figure out
a new price at that point.
mod6: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : Ben and I worked out
a prorated amount for UY3 for the month of July. It comes to
a total of 19 days, which will amount to: 0.03542985
☟︎ mod6: No worries, just let me know what works, and we'll get
a price figured out.
mircea_popescu: aaand in today's ancientry, "Uite-asa se scurge timpul, si Romania progreseaza, incet-incet, ca melasa, pe lungul drum al prefacerii intru devenire,
a construirii unei societati
a viitorului, in care omul nou sa traiasca vesnic si sa nu faca nimic cu toata vesnicia aia."
lobbes: Sony "pulled
a lobbes"
lobbes: Lol. "While parsing the input measurement string, there isn't
a check on the server address (-c). In this manner, any string can be placed as the server address and will be executed via system. Knowing this, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands in the position of the server address."
a111: Logged on 2018-07-24 16:33 mircea_popescu: but yes, if you've got
a competent spy you're not going to make her
a competent kbd monkey -- for approximately the same reason people don't usually eat their children. acceptable substitutes for flesh can usually be found.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, that's more in the vein of "well... i got this here chunk, but hard to tell what it actually is, bring me
a selection of hammers to hit it with see if it sings."
a111: Logged on 2018-07-24 15:09 mircea_popescu: i might get this inept slut
a blog though... what'd pizarro think about giving my stupid whores slots on the mp-wp megaserver ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, if you've got
a competent spy you're not going to make her
a competent kbd monkey -- for approximately the same reason people don't usually eat their children. acceptable substitutes for flesh can usually be found.
☟︎