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mircea_popescu: in other news, ffa chapters are such a pleasure. it seems
to me by now ffa has become such a largest-rock in
the loperos garden...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it strikes me as
the height of strange
that
the balance sheet seems
to paint a rosy picture whereas management communication is bleak and dour.
these shouldn't contradict so, which is it ?
mircea_popescu: are
these factual ? because ~both~ of
these would be ~significant~ accomplishments, neh ? shareholders put in 11, if memory serves, so
they realised a 60% roi over
the interval ?
mircea_popescu: re
http://pizarroisp.net/2019/01/ : leaving aside how annoying it is i can't select, and how it's
the case
trying
to comment
timesout : it seems
the case pizarro ~made~ about 2 bitcoin during november, on
the strength of its fiat-denominated holdings,
taking it from being worth ~14
to being worth ~17 bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: understand
there's no such
thing as "a liver". either it's
the whole enchilada, liver, stomach, bone, muscles, skin, all
the organs -- or else nothing at all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re ". Even when I manage a piece of evangelical Republican writing well received by
the
targeted community as measured by 'likes'...
the reception warm reception is fuctionally empty." <<
the problem with
this is
the single-flower-spring issue. if you wish
t go
this route your measurements are in
the dozens of accounts, spitting forth 100s of daily posts supporting each other across
the whole "niche".
a111: Logged on 2019-01-14 00:17 BingoBoingo: My inclination was not
to
take
the earlier committment for granted and underline
the need
to start working out a plan
to achieve a positive ROI because I can't man alone it. Having sidechannel discussions outside
this forum has been demonstrated -EV in
the past. I am also wary of having strategic discussions outside of
the channel where most of
the republic's strategic and commercial competence sits.
lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-14#1886692 << I've been digesting your initial blawg post, and
then
that last
thread. If I were
to summarize what I'd read I'd say
the short-term path is clear: start automating, and
then reporting on metrics gathered. In
the best case it seems
the only way
to generate enough sales. In
the worst case you will have at least produced some meaningful statistics
☝︎ lobbes: ty. (my irssi is on
teh uy1)
BingoBoingo putting on shoes. asciilifeform is
there anything in particular you want me
to check for beyond what I reported yesterday?
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 23:46 mircea_popescu: so ok, if mod6 is committed
to
the prev 5btc and asciilifeform meets it, what exactly is pizarro's financial problem ?
BingoBoingo: Anyways, I was feeling overdue for an appointment with
the sharp rotating blades of
the immutable machine.
BingoBoingo: My inclination was not
to
take
the earlier committment for granted and underline
the need
to start working out a plan
to achieve a positive ROI because I can't man alone it. Having sidechannel discussions outside
this forum has been demonstrated -EV in
the past. I am also wary of having strategic discussions outside of
the channel where most of
the republic's strategic and commercial competence sits.
☟︎ trinque: derps gotta
talk
to each other
trinque: then
the question becomes why BingoBoingo is writing about death when capitalized
through his perceived deadline
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going
through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get
to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if pizarro can say "talked
to 985,553 heathens
this month, here's
the script, here's
the results breakdown, here's
the more interesting lulz/notions/ideas" it stands in a WAY
the fuck better position
than what
trinque above perceived may well degenerate into a simple "gimme".
mircea_popescu: seems rather
the problem is "how
to spend
tens of
thousands of dollars with a roi" rather
than "wut do april"
mircea_popescu: so ok, if mod6 is committed
to
the prev 5btc and asciilifeform meets it, what exactly is pizarro's financial problem ?
☟︎ mod6: I'm still committed
to
the 5 BTC promised a while ago.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 22:41 asciilifeform: ftr , and in re whole
thread, asciilifeform is entirely all ears re any
thoughts
trinque , diana_coman , mircea_popescu , et al, have re subj of what gotta be done in order
to reach
the black.
trinque: ah,
that's
the error
then, I
thought it was already
the symmetric.
mircea_popescu: trinque i'm not
that in
touch, but iirc it was a good deal as symmetric.
mircea_popescu: anyways, is
the situation here is
that mod6 is quietly opting out while you're explicitly opting out of
the refinancing you both were very excited
to do a year or so ago, back when i was rebuffing ben_vulpes with "the only
thing another cap round buys you is not havign
to do any work for a longer interval" ?
trinque: what was it,
they paid 3x for
the symmetric?
trinque: mircea_popescu: most hosting is biased
towards upload anyway, and
there's ample capacity on
that end
to sell.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 22:42 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform enumerate
the db of each forum
touching upon internet, message each single user, report on results.
mircea_popescu: moreover
that if your pet duck is eating its feet it's not gonna become a drake anytime soon.
BingoBoingo going
to
take a walk while
the rain's stopped and
try
to unload some of
this cortisol
mircea_popescu: yes, my
thought is
that if you can't make sales with spare capacity you're not going
to make sales without spare capacity.
BingoBoingo: Even if I frame it as "we aren't utilizing
the whole pipe",
they are going
to smell blood
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform
that your dc respects you is probably your only asset now. giving
that away will yield what, "a clearer situation" ? <<
This is my worry about "renegotiating" with
the DC
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that your dc respects you is probably your only asset now. giving
that away will yield what, "a clearer situation" ?
trinque: with which
to persuade for
the cut
trinque: if customers wont
take
the diminished capacity
that's basically all else pizarro has
that has (if very) hypothetical value
trinque: it's a model of a negotiation, not proposing a specific, other
than not sitting around
thinking about how lordly we are while we die
trinque: or y'all can proceed valiantly into
the void, whichever you prefer
trinque: "capacity will
temporarily be X while BingoBoingo Ys,
this gives
T time left
to P. customers will meanwhile accumulate S shares per billing cycle of diminished capacity" as a rough model of what I'm
talking about.
mircea_popescu: let
them pay pizarro, nobody said
they're gonna be making policy.
mircea_popescu: last i heard you're not welcome in
the us congress, will still get fined if you park in
the main entryway
to courthouse.
mircea_popescu: "my five year plan for pizarro is
that by
the
time we're done with
the first
three it'll not be physically possible
to do such a
thing as 'host a website' anywhere else."\
mircea_popescu: first, you
tell
them
to come over,
then you start nuking everyone else, and on in
this manner. what, are we fucking around ?
mircea_popescu: tmsr isn't some cool secret project for five dorks under some covers in a pillow fort somewhere.
tmsr is
the rule of
the world and mandatory at all junctures, wtf.
mircea_popescu: if you opt
to not
tell people
to come in -- you opt
to be out of here.
mircea_popescu: because if
they are not -- guess what, bezos also isn't.
mircea_popescu: yes,
there's an argument
to be made for "help out fellow republicans". fine and good, but
them fellow republicans'd better be out
there converting
the world
to
the republic.
trinque: and since
the "fair price" is going
to be "what we need" ^ aha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform whatever
the calculation is, it's not gonna be "im just gonna subsizide whatever-you-guise-feel-like"
trinque: since I still host everything important elsewhere, not as much as if I
thought it'd be around.
diana_coman: myeah,
that "into
the black in
two months" seems
to me weird here;
the
trouble is not even "in
two months" but at all; because it has been way more
than 2 months and if it keeps going as is, I doubt 10 months would make a difference
mircea_popescu: what is
this, retard school ? we don't want "projects" in
the playdo sense.
mircea_popescu: the notion whereby "i've been doing something by hand in lieu of what i'm supposed
to do" passing muster is not unlike
the case where you send girl
to buy you shoes and she comes by with "i love you alf" papier mache "8th march -- mother's day!!" gift.
trinque: asciilifeform: if you
try
to reach black by multiplying my bill, I'll just leave.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform enumerate
the db of each forum
touching upon internet, message each single user, report on results.
☟︎ trinque: barring
that
the
thing's dead.
trinque: negotiate with existing customers re: what cuts
they'll suffer, *if*
they will, cut, and roll everything you can
to actual, aggressive sales efforts
trinque: don't know if y'all have a realistic perception of what sales
takes, and "I'm gonna sell my way into
the black in
two months" sounds like.
diana_coman: not
to mention
that it sounds
to me
that you'll potentially lose precisely
those customers you want
diana_coman: trinque, for s.mg it's less straightforward and it's not even just a matter of backups only; at any rate, it's at best "starvation mode" so I don't see how it really gets pizarro out of
trouble; so far it's not even clear
that *price* is
the
trouble re converting really; is it?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 19:59 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wants
to hire BingoBoingo
to do it ; BingoBoingo is looking around for "awk experts"
to do it. meanwhile, danielpbarron is out
there doing it.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-12 19:41 BingoBoingo: ^ Any awk ninjas want
to
try
this on a few forums?
trinque: diana_coman: would reducing
the download capacity
to 10mbps harm your use case any?
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, did you
talk
to your
tech about automating any part of
that?
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 18:53 BingoBoingo:
trinque: I don't have concrete plans.
The major part of
the DC cost is pipe rather
than rack. Renegotiating for less pipe with
the datacenter would change
the costs we are basing our colocation price off of as well.
BingoBoingo: links earlier mentioned. At present
there is one ongoing conversation as a result of
this.
BingoBoingo: <diana_coman> BingoBoingo, but how *many* accounts did you message out of how many in
the db, over what
time, what filter(s) did you use and with what results? <<
The way I've been walking by hand involves looking at
the users online list most forums helpfully still offer and going from
there. Recently I've
taken
to looking for "I got banned from X
turdservice"
threads and blogs
then posting
targeted copy as demonstrated in one of
the
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 19:01
trinque: I'd be shocked if you needed more
than
that 10/100.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 22:15 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu:
there can be no question of 'sharing rack', it's entirely nonstarter. what
there are, are half-height racks, in which most of
the other customers of
that bldg live. but
they are bad deal, iirc
they only cost slightly less
than a full 42 height.