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mircea_popescu: , let alone working anywhere today". yes, sure, and he's doing 16 doses a day and he butchered two people, lawds mercy.)
mircea_popescu: (and, for the "missing out on career" random (and consequently almost guaranteed to run into grief) potshot : it so happens, like many other things do happen, that mp was in charge of a town at a point in its history when an amphetamine epidemic hit the (very, VERY competent, poorly equipped, badly overworked) medical staff. there was a lot of "x ?! x is beyond brilliance, there isn't a y surgeon like him mentioned in history
mircea_popescu: you're abusing time exactly like random housewife abuses benzedrine, and to shockingly similar results. apparently the quality of input meat reflects in the exoticism of the substance chosen, not at all in the path taken down adiction tobogan.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile asciilifeform is actually idiotic enough to "hates my face" ? really, dood ? because why, because you fucked up, AGAIN, are fully determined to not fix it, and consequently "mp hates me" ? who the fuck do you think you are to be worthy of such wonders ? my hate, really ?
mircea_popescu: such a fine rant it was, too! however, i looked over teh pizarro logs, an' there's evidently no room for it. so good for you! my poor rant, now has nowhere to go an' nothing to do ;/
mircea_popescu: in other news, ben_vulpes / mod6 , i had a good rant all summoned up on the topic of "motherfucker, after years of watching me do business publicly, including the lot with bingoboingo, you lot revert to the tardstalk style of 'secrecy' the moment gotta stop nodding along and actually put hands into pie".
mircea_popescu: then the corresponding can also be implemented (l1 can have any blog added). vaguely curious as to results.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque should prolly make the public blog rss thing a l1 blackballable item. ie anyone deedbot trusts can ask (in channel) for any item to be discontinued -- and it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as there's nothing there to unwind, there's no moar problem though.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yes, the idea back then was to send 24 fgs so as to supply 2each for the at the time dozen boxes i was trying to ship over. the latter part fell through, but as i thought the former part was still executed, and in phf's hands, i was trying to unwind it.
mircea_popescu: sure, whatever you feel like. that's what the fucking blog is there for : whatever you feel like.
mircea_popescu: lol so why not blog it, i enjoy telling that sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: also, building further the (summary) testing infrastructure currently provided is imo a legitimate way to patch upon the tree once complete ; and such work will prolly get sealed.
mircea_popescu: e portion of the month of march. those with domain knowledge are very much invited to participate.
mircea_popescu: in other news : as work on eucrypt is winding down -- the whole item is just about complete, needs serpent and we've decided to add an oaep-rsa wrapper (mostly as a pretext to do some ada-c interop testing), so roughly speaking by end of month it should actually be done -- we're moving on to shaping up the eulora client-server comms model. this will mostly be a design discussion, will take place in #eulora, prolly take up som
mircea_popescu dug it up ye ancient manifest. there's 112 A3 and 10 A1s, of which iirc jurov got a dozen back then, so i assume there's 76 and 10 left ; and 24 a3s with phf. ie a coupla grand in today's fiats.
mircea_popescu: nto it. let the experience sink in, BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER PERSONALITY THAN HISTORY AND NO OTHER GUIDE THAN EXPERIENCE.
mircea_popescu: and since there can never be a better time than the present time : following up on asciilifeform's expert advice, i bought a crate of pogos um... about three years ago, jan/feb 2015, ie when the bitcoin was ~400. they're just as rare now as they were then, and they could have been bought today for the ~same i paid for them then. meaning i lost 95 bitcents to the bitcoin on this deal, for howevermany bitcoins i cared to sink i
mircea_popescu: so that you know, ben_vulpes can just press a v tree when he needs to stand one up. and so on.
mircea_popescu: (the business case for this would be something like "but look at symbolics gear".)
mircea_popescu: is there any interest in this line with current management ? get a storage unit somewhere in uruguay, pile up all the pogos and other non-replenishables ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, to get back to the land of designs for a second : the original idea for tmsr isp was that it'd also function as a holder of valuable (ie, "no longer produced") iron. and it'd carry it on its books, giving it a whole other kind of value.
mircea_popescu: sounds like plenty and i know from experience it won't be nearly enough. but ty.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, actually, i should prolly take the rest of them from him, rather than stuff back in. they're long overdue. mind holding on to the grosse for a little ?
mircea_popescu: it does occur to me that indeed tmsr-isp would make a much better repository of "just in case" iron than danielpbarron who's trying to move. you wanna do anything with my large crate of pogos fellas ?
mircea_popescu: phf alrighty, send them back an' send me the bill please.
mircea_popescu: last call on this matter : are the surprises done or is there more exoticism waiting to be sprung on innocents ?
mircea_popescu owns too many things, to the point people are getting confused which cask of amontillado to ship.
mircea_popescu: it's what it's for, after all. mod6 you have to appreciate the outside view, "this item existed for x years, never involved itself, now does. why now and not before ?"
mircea_popescu: so basically the idea was to use the foundation as a shield/ralying flag as may be needed.
mircea_popescu: but they're questions, and no more, barren and not pregnant. "and where did you put the salt" is not "you stole the salt, didn't you".
mircea_popescu: cuz we're of the tribe that believes that a good deal.
mircea_popescu: "Looks like you tried to comment off a stale page. Reload the article, count to three and try again."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes fix the comments then i'll explain what i mean by reference to it!
mircea_popescu: so the logic mostly went, "whole shit's on fire, gotta do thing x, thing x takes dough, the only available dough is in this piggy, break it" ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, ben_vulpes mod6 is there some discussion that was had in foundation board as to the wisdom/opportunity of commitment here ? are you basically trying to stretch capital or how exactly did the logic go ?
mircea_popescu: i take it the comments never got tested or anything ? anyways.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes every time i try to comment it says "stale page".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do you want comments here ? or would rather there ?
mircea_popescu: e is, "like a republic but with secret agreements". and it proved (again, not to some sort of emo, but in actual practice) to not be good enough.
mircea_popescu: and this is the financial statement of why socialism is always and necessarily a scam, while at it.,
mircea_popescu: ie, there is an unbroken tree of outright causes all the way to the prime mover, we don't say "this is a scam" because emotionally.
mircea_popescu: alternatively i might've not sold, and pursue him. this is the sort of option capital offers one -- you can always take your pick of two options in this vein. and if you can't, you've been swindled, not doing business.
mircea_popescu: but no, it wasn't a personal loan to bb, it was a loan to bb's corp which bb guaranteed ; but which guarantee i let lapse when i sold (ie, didn't transfer to you, ie, yo ucan't now ask him for 2 btc * 8k usd or w/e the exact numbers were)
mircea_popescu: mod6 the .8 was a cash payment, the matter is entirely resolved.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's negotiated at some point. there's lengthy practice on the subject, of course.
mircea_popescu: because, obviously, if i lend to someone who has 10% chances of surviving, i want 10x my money so i can lend to ten of them and get a (slight, 5% sort of slight) profit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the formula above stands : the capital (1 above) multiplied by the discount rate (1.05 above) multiplied by the survival odds (3 in the 33% survival rate example ; could as well be 10 in the 10% survival rate example, which iirc is what start-ups historically do)
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, is why us real estate first time buyers pay 6% even though the fed rate is .75% ; and this is HOW fed rates drive monetary policy. see ?)
mircea_popescu: if his survival rate is 85%, he pays FOUR TIMES the discount rate.