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mircea_popescu: now currently you're engaging in
a boatload of pussyfooting around the fact that pizarro doesn't need more capital as it is ; and the only conceivable function more capital could possibly serve as things stand is to give you some other excuse to not get sales going.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, let me tell you some things.
a while ago you got these doods into
a miserable situation they don't know how to extract themselves from, by ending up with 10x the warrants bingoboingo got. last i checked the dood actually moved down there.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 16:35 mircea_popescu: so agree that you'll each add another 5btc as circumstances merit ; then pizarro has all the backing it needs and
a clear path to success. and if the circumstances "merit" in the sense that it needs rescuing rather than it's expanding, you can fire the management and get someone else or w/e.
ben_vulpes: i don't have
a clear picture of how pricing these would work either. part of my concern with bonds is that for
a largely fiat denominated operation, interest on
a btc loan can murder you if the fiat/btc rate goes up significantly, and fiat incomes stay the same.
ben_vulpes: i'd prefer to have
a bond mechanism in place.
mod6: This is something that would be figured out at some later date (the conversion rate). However, can Pizarro issue bonds just to me? Or does there need to be
a tranche of them offered otherwise?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 18:01 ben_vulpes: for
a convertible note like that, how'd you go about setting the conversion rate? lots of yelling?
mod6: For instance, let us use
a scenario such as: asciilifeform puts in X BTC, mod6 matches alf's X BTC (where X <= 5), can this be created as stock then? In this scenario 500`000 shares would be assigned to alf & mod6 alike. In the circumstance I would put in (10 - X) more BTC, this could be assigned to me as "convertable bonds". I've been revisiting our conversation from
a while back on the Pricing of Capita
mod6: Have been thinking about the refinancing, revisiting some old logs. Wondering if mircea_popescu would be willing to educate me
a bit, and entertain
a few possible scenarios.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, holy shit, so i was on the beach where we ran into this very bubbly florida chick there for "
a women's empowerment seminar", which i thought was bizarre.
mircea_popescu: in other fetlife lulz, "You look like you run
a cult so I’m gonna pass."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Tracking information updated. Looks like
a trip in la lata miserable will be avoided
trinque: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda is but
a livecd away
PeterL: Just got
a new computer at work, testing things out. (they upgraded us all to Winblows 10, horay! bleh)
BingoBoingo: After the rest of today's business will probably hacer
a blogpoast on the subject
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ty. If there's
a way to avoid transit in the tin can of sadness, it is appreciated.
BingoBoingo: Not yet, I'm not thrilled with the prospect of
a 3-4 hour minimum airport adventure trying to argue the finer points of
a pre-paid customs program I am unfamiliar with. Have you tried twisting the nipple of the prepaid customs folks yet? Escalating the DHL thing?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, perhaps should organize
a carrying of various spare odds and ends such as
a dc must have on hand but the orcs do not : assorted cables, spare hdds / cards etc.
BingoBoingo: It's
a hell of
a spread, but this is the lowest I've seen the Argentine peso in my time here. Compra/Venta on the USD is 30/31 so the Pesos Uruguayo has dropped
a bit too, but WTF Argentina
BingoBoingo: from wikipedoia: "TransferWise routes payments not by transferring the sender's money directly to the recipient, but by redirecting them to the recipient of an equivalent transfer going in the opposite direction. Likewise, the recipient of the transfer receives
a payment not from the sender initiating the transfer, but from the sender of the equivalent transfer. This process avoids currency conversion and transfers crossing borders"
mircea_popescu: well, fwis "something happened i can't be arsed to debug". which is
a perfectly fine and even somewhat common failure mode.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 00:10 mircea_popescu: re
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-15#1813559 : one important palliative measure would be for ben_vulpes to create
a strong presence on localbitcoins, if nowhere else. there's people there willing to do wires for you, and you never know when it comes handy in
a pinch.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-15 21:28 asciilifeform: diana_coman: steps to replicate: 0) on
a machine WITH
A WORKING GNAT (e.g. adacore's , and it must be in your path already ) 1 ) download the tarball from
http://ave1.org/2018/building-gnat-on-musl-now-with-partial-and-parallel-build-support 2) unpack tarball ada-musl-cross-2018-05-15.tgz , go to the dir 3) mkdir bin << this is where the built binariola will live 4) ./build-ada.sh /home/foo/temp/ada/ada-musl-cross-2018-05-15/bin
diana_coman: ah, free bla bla; no, I meant with the output of ave1's script (even if at the very root one used adacore's, once upon
a time, fine); basically what I was trying to do yesterday on rockchip
diana_coman: I'd really like to have
a clear and tested way to bootstrap with non-adacore gnat though
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 15:13 mircea_popescu , incidentally, is
a huge persian poetry fan. i mean the pre rinascimento stuff.
mircea_popescu: to continue
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-16#1814352 : take the nizami story of khosrow (last persian ruler) and shirin (possibly roman princess). not only is it usually rendered in pantsuit retellings as "farhad and shirin" (farhad being the politruk, modernist element / in his own mind only rival to the king), but the very naive "women get
a say, not the natural but the fabricated sort" it's steeped in (written as it is fi
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Going on six weeks without
a sighting. I was worried the Irish would reinfest the place, but that worry hasn't been realized
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform mod6: y'all have
a timeline for this second round or are we going to leave it at "when necessary"? i prefer to capture commitments shortly after their made (none of this private equity "you commit twenty million today, we ask for it in three years and returns are evaluated on time from wire clearing to divestment date" silliness), and moreover having and not needing trumps needing and having to
a111: Logged on 2018-05-01 16:25 phf: aight, i'm going to be out of commission until mid may. i have comments for eulora that i need to type up (i got to sit down with
a printout out over this weekend), i'm not sure about the amount of work required for the grapher until i have time to sit down and read v.pl (i sort of have an idea of how to implement it as part of vtools, but i'm not sure if the slicing is adequate), until i do i don't have
a clear idea of how long it's going to take. i m
mircea_popescu: so agree that you'll each add another 5btc as circumstances merit ; then pizarro has all the backing it needs and
a clear path to success. and if the circumstances "merit" in the sense that it needs rescuing rather than it's expanding, you can fire the management and get someone else or w/e.
☟︎ mod6: <+mircea_popescu> or does mod6 do 20 you do 5 and you're ballooned out ? :D << This is
a possibility. Although, I'm not sure I want to outlay that much at the moment.
mod6: asciilifeform: how do you feel about such
a proposition? If I add in another, say 5 or 10 BTC, does this present any problems in your mind?
mod6: So there's
a couple things in the air: We're workin on it. :]
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 13:37 asciilifeform: cross compiler also not very useful imho. let the thing build
a pc and an arm compiler ( and yes if it has to build cross compiler in the process, let it , but consider it to be
a strictly intermediate step )
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 13:35 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-16#1814192 << definitely not 28. unless
a separate fg-less unit is built, then can hold 32 . and yes i have
a cad drawing in progress, so as to work like men rather than monkeys in africa
mircea_popescu: hey, other then the times i get pissed off it's
a pleasure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, anyway, an' ftr, if your concern is that you're underweight pizarro, you can just as well do
a second round. see if mod6 wants to either
a) give it more btc or else b) move into
a minority position. pizarro would certainly benefit from
a larger piggy giving it more solidity etc, so you can do another 10-20 round either by yourself if mod6 is agreeable or else match together or any which old way. this isn't an u
mircea_popescu: they get
a cheaper chassis and we get
a working economy.
mircea_popescu: but no, the universe 3 whereby "people made
a 300 btc donation to unclear future goals" isn't really on the table.
mircea_popescu: or else universe 2, whereby chassis for pizarro is produced by you as free agent. in this world we have to now explain what nsa actually is, which becomes
a rather difficult task, and pizarro will have to sell its bonds on market, to whatever discount.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-16 20:58 phf: i find the framing odd, i thought purpose of s.nsa capital was to assist ascii in his b-
a aligned, but essentially personal endeavor, which might potentially have
a return. somehow it turned into "pay ascii by the hour". if ascii doesn't want to work on cardano, it's not
a b-
a way to coerce him, but if the project still exists, is being worked on, then money will be spent when there's something to spend it on, and there will be
a a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 13:26 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-16#1814131 << transport for rockchiptron will be considerably cheaper than 2500, as i can't picture needing
a whole week, nor 400 in overweight charge for the crates
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, secrecy is not so much
a public matter. your harem slaves will keep your secrets, but why are you talking secretly outside of their bodies ?
mircea_popescu , incidentally, is
a huge persian poetry fan. i mean the pre rinascimento stuff.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: to drive it into the dirt :
a) suppose you want reliable addition, for which purpose you comission rockchip machines 1 through 6. b) you pass along the string "5+6". the answers come 11 11 11 65524 11 11. c) machine 3 notices it is the only one with that result via its distributed n-of-m magick module, and returns "op fail" instead.
mircea_popescu: but can also be implemented as
a distributed system, ie, EXACTLY LIKE IN PEOPLE.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 13:28 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-16#1814138 << 1k for chassis is ~extremely~ pessimistic ; yes it does need 2x redundant 5v supplies,
a quantity of brass pegs , cabling , fans. but not 1k worth.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-15 22:31 jurov: spyked, iirc we used 4 accounts and it took about
a month? surely it's in the log
ave1: note also, that
a lot of it is disk bound, the run takes longer with slow disks
ave1: this seems to be the very first "real" step, compile the binutils for your own system. it may be
a CFLAGS problem
ave1: yes, the non-native is
a cross compiler, so run on x86_64 and compile for aarch64
ave1: diana_coman, Sure no problem, I'll put it on the site and send
a link. Which one did you try?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 04:19 ave1: it does not matter if the linux is glibc or musl, I tested also on
a clean ubuntu arm64 image
mircea_popescu: it's not the sort of question that you can answer for yourself in
a minute.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: so i guess that i have to then write
a regex to capture all of the old /index.html/y/m/d/post, redirect 'em to /y/m/d/post
ben_vulpes: if any of the mpwpists in teh republic can lend
a hand, i could really use it in getting urls that don't have index.php in them
ben_vulpes: i had this in i suppose
a too-terse form the other day; shall document with words and links.
mircea_popescu: re but also
a week's stay, like if rich nsa is paying him
a little vacation. altogether it comes to this much on the basis of those assumptions" and so on.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, it's
a tight rope, either way can get unpleasant.
mircea_popescu: the " the price inevitably dips" theory works
A LOT better if it doesn't have to dip under 6k.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, nsa is not adverse to making
a new run, but it will take
a while.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, it's
a significant chunk of the cost of the rc, you realise ? YOU should be answering this, on the basis of, what you can sell.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, incidentally, wouldn't we be better served by making
a proper run, 500 say ?