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mircea_popescu: but you didn't do this in
a useful way ; because there's, for instance, no way for your friends (such as, say, you from the future) to reference it! or for the op to see anything.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-04 01:50 asciilifeform: here's
a sample of convos b/w asciilifeform and heathens ( whom he knows irl, over yrs ) : 'why didja put it in UY, bw costs 4x moar than in usa and cia will still steal yer iron eventually' ; 'i have to do what!? to get server in the rack?!' etc
mircea_popescu: and this;d be
a major problem ~even if~ l1 added up to 50%+1 of the entire world.
mircea_popescu: the problem as far as i discern it is, "not only there's no conversation going, but the mutism threatens to entrench itself as
a 'way to be', and it's not sustainable". when's the last time pizarro talked to anyone ? gotta talk to people, somehow, somewhere. silence is
a first approximation of death.
mircea_popescu: pretty much the ~whole~ of economic activity is the process of
a) building b) truthful propositions that c) describe some sort of comparative advantage and d) lots of it, especially e) of
a very easily defended kind.
mircea_popescu: mod6, you understand, refinancing is people putting money on
a proposition. it depends immensely what the proposition is. P1 = "our book value is ~11 and consists 95% of exotic hardware nobody else can get where it is" is very different from P2 = "we ate through our seed
A+++ would do some more dicking about with files we download. oh and there's also some hardware."
mircea_popescu: did you ever manage to get
a btc->fiatola conversion going ? or what, still mired in paperwork is it ?
mircea_popescu: i said it once, you know. aanyway : the original idea (get >=300 rockchips there, in
a dozen+ Us) was trashed by practical considerations (as alf pointed out, he can't carry 12 us in one go) ; but it'd have required refinancing because you simply did not have enough money to pay for it.
mircea_popescu: but you will have hell on wheel in your hands trying to get more money as
a palliative solution to "i don't feel like building sales today".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: equity entitles you to
a say, but the necessities of physical world (whereby there's only so many seats for the thing to work ; and whereby those have to be seated on by physical people) make the relationship between board and equity somewhat electoral.
mircea_popescu: mod6, well, if it's
a sale, like how you got it, then yes. if it's just refinancing, then you keep whatever %.
mircea_popescu: it's not really practical to have no boards, generally ; but also not larger than maybe
a half dozen+1. even that's large.
mod6: I believe this is probably
a good way to get Pizarro into better financial shape, but it's hard for me to imagine how this works.
mod6: asciilifeform: it wasn't months. I spent probably 1 weekend hacking on
a psql ddl back in march, and ben_vulpes is finally getting around to looking at it now.
mircea_popescu: hey, you get
a free db with the file system, i never was arsed to do any better on my reports. not that i'm proposing my laziness as the model for anyone else nor that i think the bikeshedding discussion needs to continue, now extented into
a theoretical comparison of the merits and dismerits of postgress and implicit-fs-db.
mod6: It is not
a waste of time.
mod6: All I'm saying is,
a business should have
a formal way to track things, this is all.
mod6: God forbid that ben_vulpes get's hit by
a car on his bike tomorrow and then we have to pick this up.
mod6: I don't care if it's
a flat file either.
mod6: I want all of the things in
a place we can all refer to and say "oh there it is! now I can see how many x are in there" or whatever.
mircea_popescu: you're
a nice guy, mod6, and your point is without merit. nevertheless, the whole thing's
a bike shed. who the hell even cares what the infrastructure is like for handling six numbers ?
mod6: I'm no accountant, or anything, however, I find it insane to try to keep track of things in
a lisp script. Do we really want to debug our accounting things every week/month?
mod6: This is
a simply, 'nice to have', in my personal opinion.
mod6: I don't think it is
a 'blocker', but Mr. Vulpes will have to respond to that.
mod6: Now what is
a waste of time, for me, is this lisp/sexp shit. For instance, lastnight it cost us 2 man hours. 1 for me, 1 for ben who had to take me through the entire rockchip lisp thing that he created.
mod6: So. I created this database back in March to help track inventory, payments, customer accounts, etc. This all to help ben_vulpes save time when doing reporting. Which, as I understand is taking him
a lot of time each month.
mircea_popescu: do you have as much as an active account on
a webmaster forum even ?
mircea_popescu: you've been "managing" the thing for months, haven't yet hired
a single salesman. what are you managing over there, the transition into bureaucracy ?
mircea_popescu: you find yourself in the unique position of
a start-up running out of runway that doesn't have AS MUCH AS
A LANDING PAGE. suppose i wanted to send people over ; where the everloving fuck do i even send them ?
ben_vulpes: i'm going to do it in postgres; should be
a lot easier to get php to do both the mysql for the pizarro mpwp and the postgres for deedbot than to port deedbot to mysql
mircea_popescu: "For devils have no power at all save by
a certain subtle art. But an art cannot permanently produce
a true form." aka "Item Dæmones non operantur nisi per artem. Sed ais non potest dare ver am formam."
mircea_popescu: (english) Moreover, every alteration that takes place in
a human body - for example,
a state of health or
a state of sickness - can be brought down to
a question of natural causes, as Aristotle has shown in his 7th book of Physics. And the greatest of these is the influence of the stars. But the devils cannot interfere with the stars. This is the opinion of Dionysius in his epistle to S. Polycarp. For this alone God can do. T
mircea_popescu: not even
a bad argument ; kinda example of why i occasionally say scholastics' not what moderntards make it seem.
mircea_popescu: actually it even has
a "zero one infinity" statement. "if demons could alter the world then what'd stop them at all"
mircea_popescu: very refreshingly medieval perspective. what's all this "i'm
a producer" bs.
mircea_popescu: approximately, "whosoever believes in self-improvement is worse than
a pagan"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile moving on : the malleus item linked has
a "The source version of this text, with notes and additional material, can be found at MalleusMaleficarum.org [External Site]." except the "external site" doth not include such an item.
mircea_popescu: or maybe
a coronary. even more "typically" protective, very few people with coronaries get cancer indeed!
mircea_popescu: maybe
a little bit o' the clap's the best thing for ye.
mircea_popescu: it's like thinking you were "targetted" for
a street mugging. yes, you were, guess by what ? you were targetted as one of the schmucks who imagines they can be targetted by street muggings.
mircea_popescu: that it has
a "university" attached instead of
a "temple" is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: and existence is predicated on intelligence, and mit never had one. it's just
a humongous pile of printed dollars, the us-style equivalent of the chinese "sovereign funds".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you don't put an anti-prng in the fg. why should any of the ai people put an anti-mit or
a f(mit) however defined in their behaviour ?
mircea_popescu: they then decided sussman isn't welcome either ; eventually they had to make
a new "lab", to alleviate both the problem of their pretense to sovereignity, and of the people not caring what they say
mircea_popescu: do you eat bananas like
a fucking orc, in "certain ways" that are "spiritual" according to the imaginary bananashamans ?
mircea_popescu: out of mit's gear. NOT on mit's terms. use, you understand me ? use. like
a thing.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 22:20 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good thread, and notes, but the central q is still unresolved in my head -- argument is that 'they should have left mit and built the machine, in
a garage, in zimbabwe ( so as to avoid paying license fee )' ? or 'should have built it without having ever been at mit' ? or which
a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 21:11 phf: mcclim always reminds me of how rms was planning on competing with symbolics by reimplementing everything they had on top of gnu platform. that was the goal. only
a handful people who actually worked with
a genera realize how "special" the result of rms's work was.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 17:07 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-13#1812937 << farming is NOT AMENABLE to any other kind of farming. the pretense to "independent farmers" is how the pantsuit chicks got the less able men off the cattle growing, you understand. the notion of "independent farmer" is
a hallucination exactly like the notion of "successful starlet", sold by the press of
a commercial concern for
a commercial interest. hollywood WANTED
a bunch of gir
mircea_popescu: really bitch ? the data processor was
a computer ? ZI SA MORI TU\
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : "The PDP-6 (Programmed Data Processor-6) was
a computer"
mircea_popescu: web-borne noobs have
a lot of trouble mentally handling sanity, what can i say.
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a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 21:11 phf: mcclim always reminds me of how rms was planning on competing with symbolics by reimplementing everything they had on top of gnu platform. that was the goal. only
a handful people who actually worked with
a genera realize how "special" the result of rms's work was.
mircea_popescu: anywya, i think ima reprint (and adnotate) the trinque -linked bolix discussion, because i fear it's so concise and the language so tense, nobody, including myself, will understand wtf was being said in
a few more years.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 13:30 asciilifeform: ^ pretty lulzy prehistory -- usg is burning the vuln in the most traditional way, complete with 'responsible disclosure'ism and
a boeck-style 'researcher' ; nao spinning in every propaganda organ in unison as 'pgp broken!'
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-14#1813131 << in the specific case of czechoslovakia, they got wet because tanks in prague. now and again "science fiction" pops up containing gender-indeterminate species, which choose
a gender by context, "with joe in the room i'm samantha the slut, but when moe's around i'm butch". this is EXACTLY how societies work, they are gendered by context, and sending
a bunch of tanks can very well fli
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-14#1813129 << in recent trilema terms one could say it captures the moment where patriarchy gave way to matriarchy in one man's mind and coincidentally at the same time in that man's country. this is not altogether
a lossy summary, and it betrays literary value in the work.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: really ? cuz i seem to recall
a whole bunch of ukr ustasa groups.
mircea_popescu: you figure the average indian tribe was possessed enough to ~WASTE~ however many galon's worth of whiskey to get
a rifle ? no way no how.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's actually
a lot of substance to the rooseveltian-socialist "the hitler-socialists were pretty divorced from reality" claims / agitprop. even if not usually the substance they'd like there to be.
mircea_popescu: this is true, actually. generalplan ost was some choice rib of insanity re political sociobiology. they were gonna make
a New Bavaria in odessa like "the englishers" had made New York in missisiauga
mircea_popescu: note however that "moscow whip" is
a very dubious item altogether, at least in the case of actually authoritarian regimes. ceausescu drove gorby mad with his "what apologize, you fucking apologize, fucker, i wasn't there."