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mircea_popescu: and "drink the ocean" is an eminently attractive problem. in fact, i know of no more attractive class.
mircea_popescu: you meet idiots by having dumb problems. that's what jail fucking is, even : forced dating club for the sort of idiots dumb enough to be petty criminals.
mircea_popescu: you meet intelligent people by having intelligent problems.
mircea_popescu: a lot of peripheral, deeply useful work for the intelligent tuned in.
mircea_popescu: the only impossible task is the undefined task. once we pinned it down in the "this and naught else" format, it's doable.
mircea_popescu: and nothing weighs too much. human weight on planet earth is half a trn tons.
mircea_popescu: there is no way to ~not~ distribute binaries, ever, at all, because of the bootstrap problem.
mircea_popescu: we prolly want to hold the complete set as a sort of standard somewhere anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i certainly am contemplating same for s.mg. after all, if one's not gonna tie himself to the smart ones, who will he tie himself to.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, it builds an arm AND a x86 item. using the right one ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, might be an idea to put the fellow on the pizarro warrants list, considering impact.
mircea_popescu: a WHOLE RESTAURANT worth of dudes insufficient to produce ~one fucking punch~.
mircea_popescu: bwahaha. by now the factor of punches to "threats" approaches the facebook.content to facebook.mark-up proportion.
mircea_popescu shrugs. "just a matter of perspective", right ? and then the proof and the blabla.
mircea_popescu: ancient lulz. basically the 2nd largest exchange (tree something) ran off with the funds, the people involved re-emerged doing all sorts of real estate and "trading" scams.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: talking of tor feels a little like talking of meni rosenfeld's bitcoin scam. anyone recall that "o ya, bcrypt, best tool on the market" lulzfest ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, re other lulz, i can't imagine anyone can possibly regard "child pornography charges" / "sexual assault charges" etc brought by the criminal org as anything than shameful fabrications.
mircea_popescu: mod6, i don't even have a problem with the mb, per se, i mean holy hell there's trilema pages consisting of tables or novels or w/e the fuck. but that mb is <1% markup for the love of christ, not 99%.
mircea_popescu: the externalized costs, you know ? suddenly puts into a whole new perspective the "net neutrality" thing. srsly, i must buy more switches cuz your "pages" are larger than my porn collection ?!
mircea_popescu: in utterly other lulz, i just archived a facebook page. anyone care to guess the aggregate byte size ?
mircea_popescu: suppose there's a facebook group. suppose whatever the fuck, i dunno, i do other things.
mircea_popescu: and yes, specific items, right ? suppose someone searches for "arm hosting". well ?
mircea_popescu: mod6, one way of looking at it is, "pizarro finds l1's in exile". you know ? "<h1>Pizarro</h1><h3>Welcome Home.</h3>"
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how this works, but pizarro seems to be getting ever less for ever more money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, well, actually, the whales eat the way successful business sells : like we breathe.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the problem of selling starts with the cheaper bits.
mircea_popescu: results in just enough protein intake to maintain its mass.
mircea_popescu: takes up 50 tons of water per mouthful, one mouthful per minute, each minute, all day fucking long, each day of the loving year.
mircea_popescu: whale's just looking for protein. how the protein subjectively sees itself as packaged, "krill", "rabbit"... frankly none of the whale's problem.
mircea_popescu: i don't know of any method besides filter feeding. and do you know what's the primary ingredient for filter feeding ?
mircea_popescu: dorks don't even bother to crop the copyright notices off their "profile" pics.
mircea_popescu: they're even more retarded than tardstalk, if that were even possible.
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.
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: and of course you can also just issue bonds ; whether convertible or not, until conversion event they sit on the passive.
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: there's an indirection layer there, between owning equity and board seats.
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.
mircea_popescu: old interest ~might~ get one seat ; but usually does not.
mircea_popescu: mod6, generally, if you refinance the old board gets trashed.
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.
mircea_popescu: yes ; but if the present trend continues you won't have all that much to read altogether.
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 ?
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 ?