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mircea_popescu: what separates the men from the children is that one year, and whether at the end of it you're green or not.
mircea_popescu: after the first year your machines are amortized and your downline built, so you're looking at some decent net margin. before the first year you're burdened by the capital costs and stuck with low occupancy, so you bleed cash.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: these take more work, and consequently provide more revenue.
mircea_popescu: your cost basis is ~200 per server. you can rent them for 3-400 as such, or can give out vpsen, which are more productive. perhaps even "shared" if particularily interested into it.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: they cost you about 50k to buy, and the rack will run you about 50k for a year. that means your yearly budget is about 100k, roughly.
mircea_popescu: your 42 u full rack takes 40 boxes, optimized so they pull say 150-200 W on average. that'll keep you out of power overages 99% of the time.
mircea_popescu: b) you're not going to charge 1k/mo for any servers, don't be ridiculous. you're going to pay 500-2k to buy the server, and then rent it out for the usual 2x the fixed cost.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes a) you're not going to make money renting space as such. this wasn't even in the original design, i've nfi why you added it in.
mircea_popescu: the god of magic numbers gave them the 900 second and they're sticking ot it!
mircea_popescu: trinque could this actually be changed to match the format of all others ? iirc it's amt dest for withdraw etc.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo from experience nobody gives a flying fuck about visas in this part of the world.
mircea_popescu: needless to say, no portion of the "added value" of 15mn was injust enrichment, or taken from them to be returned to the rightful slovak owner.
mircea_popescu: , notwithstanding he had proofs (but did he have proof those proofs were proofing ?!?!). in the end, after a lot of back and forth between various government agencies, they paid him 300k, "acquired" it (legally, of course, what usg steals is legally acquired, what slovak antique dealer owns is "mafia involvement") and then proceeded to sell it at auction. for ... 15.3mn.
mircea_popescu: and here's some lulz for asciilifeform's private "art ownerhsip" collection : femme nue couchee, a courbet knockoff of the maja desnuda goya painting was looted in 45 by the soviets, who displayed it in the manner of truckers, which is to say on a truck tarpaulin. the item was thought lost, but it surfaced in 2000. the owner (possession is 100% of the law!) was accused of being unfit for ownership, as he happened to be slovak
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo publish monthly reports of your adventure.
mircea_popescu: sexylucy ya esta, 004c25d4506c8c20fbf490cab13f7c26a6b69ffc4486cbfa4eb383f63d335199
mircea_popescu: trinque so is this one sent ? chick's addy still empty fwis.
mircea_popescu: trinque nevermind i fucked it up. sexylucy gracias por signalar, tenia un error. disculpe la demora.
mircea_popescu: and in other "the only new thing is the history you didn't know", female steroid users grow genuine penises where the clit used to be. head and errything. and they don't go away.
mircea_popescu: in other news holy shit britannica.com looks just like a random spamsite.
mircea_popescu: "oh, sure, it has a float rate and everything". right-o.
mircea_popescu: it's like claiming "we accept dollars AND euros". why, because the euro's a thing now ?
mircea_popescu: the thing, is, no-one ever accepts any of the alts other than as a bitcoin derivative.
mircea_popescu: after they come to, she's like "hey, i thought you were going to put in just the head ?"
mircea_popescu: she eventually agress, and he fucks the living daylights out of her.
mircea_popescu: hawt girly at that difficult age, kinda would like kinda dun wanna. guy proposes he puts in just the head.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes dja know the romanian joke with the bloke putting in just the tip ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai the good news being that the juggernaught of the republic doth daily advance, so eventually it'll come.
mircea_popescu: if i dun have it i can't alter the article so they can't have to make wallets etc.\
mircea_popescu: i don't expect there's much anyone can do. so far, we gather dataz.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform simmer down, what're you so irritable foar.
mircea_popescu: local fucktards for instance explained to me "they can't receive wires from abroad." i'm like... so got any rostipollo then ?
mircea_popescu: does problem persist if you use the actual system tty rather than X ?
mircea_popescu: i would guess, since screen sees it fine, that your problem is later in the flow. maybe the windows manager fucks it up for you ?
mircea_popescu: iirc centos format is (sudo) setserial blabla, it lists devices / state etc with -g