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a111: Logged on 2019-06-03 16:33 asciilifeform: 'I am very unhappy with
this interaction, I don't believe I met MP (since I asked for very clear corroboration bur didn't get it), I don't believe Nicole does
the work ascribed
to her without assistance (rather, a
team does) and more
to
the point I don't get
the whole point of
the project. Why would
this be done since 2018? Please give me a simple answer. (Two examples would be
tracking international sex
trafficking, or making black
mircea_popescu: i guess ima have
to have
this dug up on my own side also,
to get back
to sanity.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-03 16:19 asciilifeform:
then we're
talking about
the s.mg spare. which is a piz box and
then oughta be priced entirely ==
to
the primary smg.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-03 11:47 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-02#1916860 << usually just disguised campaign donations, "i didn't give $$$
to party, i bought
ticket". very popular dnc strategy in
the us, since
the 70s at
the least.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 19:19 BingoBoingo: In order
to break
the present state of sin and approach
the proposed, more reasonable figure, going forward my inclination is
to have box rental priced
to recover 90% of
their book cost over
the first year's rents and in following years
track 50% per annum as a longevity discount.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
The dulap spare was yet another monthly,
that one strictly billed as a colo, which hanbot played with cuntoo and
then
the subscription was canceled when
that experiment was aborted.
The S.NSA spare is cold at present.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-01 19:28 asciilifeform: it is actually
the snsa spare , BingoBoingo and asciilifeform were leasing it out
to hanbot at colo rate , with mp's permission.
BingoBoingo: Will
take a peak
today for one more once over on
the boxes.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
These are both rental boxes for S.MG. One is
the production machine.
The other leased monthly (formerly cold spare) for diana_coman
to do
testing and such.
mircea_popescu: i'm not
trying
to eat your lunch here, you should be paid a fair amount ; but note you
that "sin" was ongoing for as long as i didn't say anything ?
this is just not how
things can possibly work.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 19:19 BingoBoingo: In
this case since we have identical boxes and divergent prices on
the book of 0.23423972 and 0.4 without a USD base price recorded in
the statements, I am inclined
to
take
the lower price and round it up
to 0.235
to resolve
the discrepancy and continue with
the pricing exercise.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 17:06 BingoBoingo:
The very concerned about
the poor Frente Amplista wants 300 USD a head
to speak for her own campaign.
lobbesbot: PeterL: Sent 2 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours, and 18 minutes ago: <BingoBoingo> I'm not versed enough in javascript
to be certain.
The difference below 24c24 could be something.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform and mod6 are invited
to review as well
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Let me know what you
think of
this proposal.
BingoBoingo: In
the interest of simplifying
things and because you are Mircea Popescu, I am inclined
to kick
the
total down
to 0.85 split it over
two invoices of 0.425 for each of
the
two machines and have
them both run
through June 1st 2020 offering a small percentage discount and roughly a month and a half of
time on
the production box free.
BingoBoingo: 1700.40 USD @ 5319 USD/BTC = 0.319684151 BTC + 0.1175 BTC (0.235/2) = 0.437184151 BTC for a year of hosting on each box.
This would carry
the production server
to April 18th 2020 and
the
test server would carry it
to June 1st 2020.
The
two invoices would
total 0.874368302 BTC, and
the next invoicing on
the boxes would be staggered one month apart.
BingoBoingo: In
this case since we have identical boxes and divergent prices on
the book of 0.23423972 and 0.4 without a USD base price recorded in
the statements, I am inclined
to
take
the lower price and round it up
to 0.235
to resolve
the discrepancy and continue with
the pricing exercise.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: In order
to break
the present state of sin and approach
the proposed, more reasonable figure, going forward my inclination is
to have box rental priced
to recover 90% of
their book cost over
the first year's rents and in following years
track 50% per annum as a longevity discount.
☝︎☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-07-25 02:29 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
a111: Logged on 2018-02-24 18:39 ben_vulpes: i can give you a pretty steep discount for paying
the year up front, but because i'm building out
the downline i want
to keep
the box on
the balance sheet. how about a 20% markup on
the machine if you pay for
the whole year?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
The base price for 1 year of hosting is 1700.40 USD (12 months * 141.70 USD)
BingoBoingo: At
the same
time
the Blancos and other opposition parties are doing
the
thing where
they
take street corners and don't sell
tickets
BingoBoingo: The very concerned about
the poor Frente Amplista wants 300 USD a head
to speak for her own campaign.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Anyways,
the Spanish language qntra was set up and proceeded
to receive nothing from
the very enthusiastic F-dez
mircea_popescu: but at least
this deeply foss process is asking me for my password every 5 minutes, so how bad can it be.
mircea_popescu: and
then of course
the moment you actually
try
to install a game, steam needs at least 2-300mb of further updates.
mircea_popescu: remarkable just how useless computers are
these days. so first, i chugged in 2gb of ubuntu.
the moment it came up it wanted
to get a further 450mb of "updates".
then it
turns out ~every game out
there has pretty much outsourced its distribution (and, i suspect, debugging, such as it is)
to steam (with a minor gog presence as well). so you gotta install steam.
that's only 50mb or so, but a
third layer by now.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: old, can be used as well as always" ; "Since
thursday
the visa rules for
ticos were changed by Donald
Trump so as
to require
the social media platforms
they use (without password)".
mircea_popescu: ie "Behaviours such as sending messages with sexual content
to a student or proferring macho comments in class go unpunished in
the public universities [of Costa Rica] because of
the weakness of administrative sanctions imposed by
the rules on sexual aggression" ; "Huawei Costa Rica calls for calm and assures all its products can be used without concern.
They assure
the smartphones and
tables already sold and
those
to be s
mircea_popescu: good
thing #ubuntu has >1k users
tho. it'd get boring if
the same exact names logged on and off all
the
time.
mircea_popescu: and in ongoing other-half lulzsaga : ubuntu installer dies, drops
to busybox ash because initramfs can't find a live filesystem
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 13:59 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-02#1916805 << btw , speaking of wiener, asciilifeform has an unfinished mega-piece on subj sitting on hdd for years nao. ( summary -- wiener's 'cybernetics' has ~0
to do with computation of whatever kind, and is exactly
the 1950s equiv. of
today's 'bayesianisms' etc. and when
the crackpottery was , correctly, laughed at in su, actual computers were being built;
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 13:48 asciilifeform: pretty good illustration, btw, of
them corners.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 13:37 asciilifeform: speaking of which, 'Smart drugs, so long as
they're not Benzedrine and don't you dare mention
that Paul Erdős lived
to 83,
that Norbert Wiener pioneered cybernetics,
that
the mother of all demos was done by an LSD aficionado...'
a111: Logged on 2016-09-07 02:41 alice_: i'm alice. i haven't interacted with
this channel before. but i don't imagine
that's
the answer you're hoping for
mircea_popescu: and if 80 of
the 100 or so ever alive at one point are lost
to
that delusion,
things like
the monkey empire can exist.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform,
the only way out is
the "dude, i know you're
too fucking stupid
to understand WHY you have
to obey, but obey nevertheless". which, sadly, is indistinguishable from
their pov from
the common socialist state.
mircea_popescu: 1785 days since chanserv saw anyone
there.
this'd be... EXACTLY
the interval.
mircea_popescu: * *** Notice --
TS for #bitcoin-argentina changed from 1559482823
to 1405209446
a111: Logged on 2015-02-18 12:32 brendafdez: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu You're squatting
the channel ;)
http://pastebin.com/YNqdarX7 I could be running some shady business
there instead...
mircea_popescu: it's one
thing for habitual drunk
to be sober six days ; it's quite another for him
to manage forty weeks.
mircea_popescu: what gabriel ladel or
the rest could accomplish requires 6-18 month stretches.
they do not get
those.
mircea_popescu: yes, but
the problem with
the intervening centuries is
that
the barrier
to achievement rose. what newton could usefully do could be accomplished in weeklong stretches ; which is how he did manage, 5-6 weeks / year,
to produce something.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform,
this is
the problem, every generation has a small set of actual human beings, with functioning brains. and
the current set's mostly fighting
their
tulpas.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu:
that's
true, replacing it by parts indeed; not sure it's possible
to do much any other way either.