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mod6: Yeah, I recall.
There's just no more
to give, presently.
mod6: asciilifeform: I'll
take some
time, but in all honesty, I
think Mr. Popescu has it on all accounts. I don't even
think he wants
to be right on
this one, yet he is. And presently,
there is nothing I can do
to pour myself into
the Republic, Foundation, or Pizarro more
than I currently am. And at
this level of commitment, is harmful
to all.
mod6: ben_vulpes: While we're at it, BingoBoingo reminded me
that xmas
time is upon us, and it might be a very good
time
to start shopping for some Pizarro hardware with
those amazon credits you're holding. Just a reminder.
mod6: In my mind,
the Republic isn't just a bunch of individuals - at
the low level, of course, we are. But we're here for something greater
than ourselves, and
that is what drives all of us
to put
time and money into.
mircea_popescu: dunno
that
these
two can be distinguished.
there's really no whole outside of
teh individuals involved.
mod6: Yeah, I'll
think it over, Sir. But, my main objective is
to do what is best for
the whole, instead of
the individual.
mod6: The same goes with
the Foundation, new leadership is required.
This means
that I will not be within
the lordship anymore, but better
that,
than dishonor.
mod6: So I
think
the correct
thing
to do here is
to step-down from
the Pizarro board, let someone else direct and lead
the company
to glory, as opposed
to
the back pages of
tardstalk.
mod6: I will
take some
time
to
think it over, but
this past year has
taken a
tremendous
toll on my physical and mental health. I'm not doing right by myself, my family or
the republic. I always said
that I wanted
to do
the Republic as my main
thing in life (outside family), but as I've said before, we're just not quite
there yet.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 14:02 asciilifeform:
the 1 open q is whether mod6 will continue as
treasurer, presently he is
the only 1 with access
to
the coins +
the realtime
tx history which powers
the spreadshit
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 13:48 mircea_popescu: and in
the same vein : if i lose my fucking carkeys, my "prospective plan for carkey finding" doesn't read ANYTHING like "day 1 : look for carkeys ; day 2 : look for carkeys ; day 3 : look for carkeys ; day 4...".
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 13:33 mircea_popescu: you're a good man, and i
trust you, and i know as a matter of fact my
trust's not misplaced. we absolutely have
to either adjust you
to
the
tasks you have or
the
tasks you have
to you, however, because
there's simply no way
to maintain
trustworthyness on
the long haul while capacity-activity mismatch is ongoing.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 13:33 mircea_popescu: can you ~believe~ how much like something you'd read on
tardstalk "investments" your workproduct ends up ?! and
this in 2018 ? why, because you've been secretly saving it
through a
time capsule, insulated from review, all
this
time ?! god almighty, last
thing i want is
the yahoo peterl-ism of 2013 perpetuated a second past
the end of
that year.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 13:33 mircea_popescu: . on
the short
term you'll have
to
take some
time off and
think long and hard and in all seriousness about what you want from
this life, because continuing on your present course can't possibly bring much beyond disaster.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 13:33 mircea_popescu:
the "sad" news, from
this perspective (though it is boldly and fundamentally
the exact opposite of sad) is
that no,
there isn't any "return
to
the grand old days" on
the
table. ~emphatically~ not. bitcoin ain't going back
to spending a summer at 2 dollars a coin ; and consequentlly you're not going back
to being
the mod6 of 2013 on
ten hours a week and lukewarm committment.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 13:32 mircea_popescu: it seems
to me inescapably
the case
that you have not been putting either enough
time or enough
thought into
this, and continuing in like manner for year upon year.
the inescapable result was accumulation, of exactly
the wrong kind : every day you personally grew a little smaller
than your image in
the forum, and compensating for
the difference drew, as any other credit, upon your capacities
to service, until eventually
the g
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but i will add, e.g. rk draws (and emits as heat naturally) ~7watt on a bad day. << On
this note new heavy metal rockchip drives were still cool
to
the
touch when I visited
the rack yesterday
mircea_popescu: for some reason dc resolved
to "air conditionning" in my head lol
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 16:52 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871149 << before
that little subthread gets entirely lost in
the cacophony of
the moar urgent matters : mircea_popescu i also suspect
that even without radio etc exotica, gossiptronic routing would give ~same connective reliability
to e.g. a flat in kamchatka with 3 heathen isp pipes, as actual dc cage has
today
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 16:00 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> prior
to pizarro, i pictured 'tmsr isp' as a moar 'noncontact' item, where heathen contract is signed and robotic 'bring server into gossip net' item is installed immediately. but FG / we-want-custom-irons etc changed
this picture <<
This and
those surprise power cycling of dulap I/II (I forget
the dulap version history)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i'll admit
to having had
this problem in
the past, i read so much l0gz
that
they work into dreams when i sleep << My worst nighmares have involved
text scrolling in a window
ben_vulpes: i could dig up
the reams of satoshi-addition on my eng pad if it would ease your mind
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i will know when
this discrepancy crept in by wednesday.
ben_vulpes: i'm
thinking
that i actually want
to rerun
the numbers at sept, because i was damned certain
that everything was kosher at
that point.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 04:16 mod6: Ok, so I'm gonna call it a night. What I do know at
this point is
the ``surplus''
that we're seeing in
the statements goes back at least
through
the August report. However, I'm not even certain at
this point if what I'm seeing is actually incorrect, as I said earlier. Or if I just don't understand what I'm looking at.
There's a strong chance
that I just don't understand it.
ben_vulpes: footsoldiering
task for me: regrind financials from april forward, april being
the second-to-last
time i audited cash held against statement claims (last
time was before handoff
to mod6,
the correctness of which mod6 apparently doubts per
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1870970 )
☝︎ ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: never existed. i
tabulated in org-mode and did all of
the calculations by hand.
ben_vulpes: ~bedtime until ~midnight by memory),
then at least another four
to check my results, which frequently included mistakes like mis-markings of which services which customers had paid for and for how long.
ben_vulpes: it may be an 0.3s job
to you or one of
the ladies
that you've
trained. every
time i sat down
to categorize
the list of incoming/outgoing into cash account vs customer equity; depreciate
the hardware; walk
the customer list
to determine how much
to debit
the customer equity line; calculate
the value of
the btc and uyu i spent about eight hours on it in i estimate in retrospect
two four hour shifts (from
mircea_popescu: i certainly can see
the narrative
that goes "first,
the
task was
to add 6 and 8 and 11 ;
then ben_vulpes wanted
to
take some hours
to print out an adhesive 25
to paste on a box we'd
therefore call computer ;
then mod6
took a few days
to complicatedly add by hand
to 24 and 26 and so on". it's still a 0.3 second job, harsh mistress experiences notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: there's merit
to automating
things ; but a strict inability
to do basic accounting results in and fosters
the development of serious other problems. such as a strict inability
to plan.
ben_vulpes: it
takes quite a bit of
time, and is full of manual ops, missteps on any of which foul
the whole
thing. my inclination is always
to automate
these and sweat
the correctness of
the automation instead of
the correctness of
the process again and again.
mircea_popescu: i still can't imagine how ~any approach fails on it, seeing how
the whole customer list is what, dozen ? less ?
ben_vulpes: and i never used a program because, (again cannot find
the log link in reasonable-response
time) at one point i was working on a schema for
tracking customers and what
they were paying for and mircea_popescu said something along
the lines of "wtf
this is a simple
text file and accounting problem"
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 15:27 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah come
the fuck on, he finds out
there's a program mid nov ? why, he didn't look in
the right place in
the pgpball ?
BingoBoingo: How much salt
to shake out of
the FUCKGOATS?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> prior
to pizarro, i pictured 'tmsr isp' as a moar 'noncontact' item, where heathen contract is signed and robotic 'bring server into gossip net' item is installed immediately. but FG / we-want-custom-irons etc changed
this picture <<
This and
those surprise power cycling of dulap I/II (I forget
the dulap version history)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
there's stuff
to look at re power and so on. dammi
tempu etc.
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly what
the shinohais of
this world are stuck doing, like it or not like it.
mircea_popescu: not in
the general case. but for its needs it is -- "i follow his lordship x, and sink with him".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing prevents "irene"
the bot from hiring such a cage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they move by order eh. besides, subs and all
that.