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BingoBoingo: It's a hell of a spread, but
this is
the lowest I've seen
the Argentine peso in my
time here. Compra/Venta on
the USD is 30/31 so
the Pesos Uruguayo has dropped a bit
too, but WTF Argentina
BingoBoingo: And in other developments, Cambios are now buying Argentine pesos for 0.9 Pesos Uruguayos.
The cambios however are still selling Argentine Pesos for 1.6 Pesos Uruguayos.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the fucking cheek of
those fuckers. seriously,
they're going
to be
the indirection layer between you and your friends ? and what else, "web platforms" ?
mircea_popescu: just like i'd rather pay bitcoin
tx fees
than other chrap. jesus christ.
mircea_popescu: jurov, yes, wires are not free. i'd rather pay
that 50
than almost any other 50
though.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, some of
the "transferwise" "customers" are evidently into money laundering, as
the entire "service"
transparently reeks of. soo... mno.
jurov: before bitcoin, i was paid from australia by wires and it was deplorable, ~50 euro fees unpredictable every
time
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Kinds looks like
the idea
the RIPple folks RIPple'd off.
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck would want
to get involved with
that nonsense jebus.
BingoBoingo: from wikipedoia: "TransferWise routes payments not by
transferring
the sender's money directly
to
the recipient, but by redirecting
them
to
the recipient of an equivalent
transfer going in
the opposite direction. Likewise,
the recipient of
the
transfer receives a payment not from
the sender initiating
the
transfer, but from
the sender of
the equivalent
transfer.
This process avoids currency conversion and
transfers crossing borders"
jurov: transferwise was better
than paypal as
they don't hold funds,
they send each wire directly
to my bank. if i used paypal,
they have no problem
to seize whole account.
mircea_popescu: well, fwis "something happened i can't be arsed
to debug". which is a perfectly fine and even somewhat common failure mode.
mircea_popescu: i dunno specifically, but you follow
the
trail, in general.
mircea_popescu: well, you ask whoever
told you "so and so decliend" who asked
them anything.
jurov: asciilifeform:
transferwise declined all further wires
to my acct
diana_coman: asciilifeform, aha, I know; my point was: we need
to have
this
tested and ironed out and we are golden
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 00:10 mircea_popescu: re
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-15#1813559 : one important palliative measure would be for ben_vulpes
to create a strong presence on localbitcoins, if nowhere else.
there's people
there willing
to do wires for you, and you never know when it comes handy in a pinch.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-15 21:28 asciilifeform: diana_coman: steps
to replicate: 0) on a machine WITH A WORKING GNAT (e.g. adacore's , and it must be in your path already ) 1 ) download
the
tarball from
http://ave1.org/2018/building-gnat-on-musl-now-with-partial-and-parallel-build-support 2) unpack
tarball ada-musl-cross-2018-05-15.tgz , go
to
the dir 3) mkdir bin <<
this is where
the built binariola will live 4) ./build-ada.sh /home/foo/temp/ada/ada-musl-cross-2018-05-15/bin
diana_coman: ah, free bla bla; no, I meant with
the output of ave1's script (even if at
the very root one used adacore's, once upon a
time, fine); basically what I was
trying
to do yesterday on rockchip
diana_coman: I'd really like
to have a clear and
tested way
to bootstrap with non-adacore gnat
though
diana_coman: ave1, happy
to say
that your script worked perfectly fine on x86_64 with Adacore's 2016 gnat!
mircea_popescu: "why no more persian empire after 600 ?" "because
they started asking
the wrong
things of
the wrong people"
mircea_popescu: ve centuries after
the fact) directly map into current republican ideology on
the
topic.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 15:13 mircea_popescu , incidentally, is a huge persian poetry fan. i mean
the pre rinascimento stuff.
mircea_popescu: to continue
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-16#1814352 :
take
the nizami story of khosrow (last persian ruler) and shirin (possibly roman princess). not only is it usually rendered in pantsuit retellings as "farhad and shirin" (farhad being
the politruk, modernist element / in his own mind only rival
to
the king), but
the very naive "women get a say, not
the natural but
the fabricated sort" it's steeped in (written as it is fi
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 03:57 asciilifeform: 1 man can carry 4u, or rather 100kg ( it is possible
to have >4u in regulation-sized
trunks ) plus rucksack 10kg.
BingoBoingo: Going on six weeks without a sighting. I was worried
the Irish would reinfest
the place, but
that worry hasn't been realized
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 13:32 asciilifeform: and re
time on site : i can't picture needing more
than 3 days : 1
to sleep ( asciilifeform can't sleep on planes ) ; 1
to install fg and emplace
the boxen into
the rack ; 1 for overflow .
mod6: ben_vulpes: but overall, I agree, sooner is better
than later.
mod6: I guess, it may all be moot if we can't easily convert
the BTC->USD
to pay ze bills.
mod6: I
think we could maybe get it done by end of May. However, we have
two other
things
that need primary focus (others may disagree) at
the moment. We need
to pay bills, and we need BTC->USD interface.
ben_vulpes: walk around with hat-in-hand, even
to boston partizans
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform mod6: y'all have a
timeline for
this second round or are we going
to leave it at "when necessary"? i prefer
to capture commitments shortly after
their made (none of
this private equity "you commit
twenty million
today, we ask for it in
three years and returns are evaluated on
time from wire clearing
to divestment date" silliness), and moreover having and not needing
trumps needing and having
to
a111: Logged on 2018-05-01 16:25 phf: aight, i'm going
to be out of commission until mid may. i have comments for eulora
that i need
to
type up (i got
to sit down with a printout out over
this weekend), i'm not sure about
the amount of work required for
the grapher until i have
time
to sit down and read v.pl (i sort of have an idea of how
to implement it as part of vtools, but i'm not sure if
the slicing is adequate), until i do i don't have a clear idea of how long it's going
to
take. i m
mod6: We need
to pay billz :D
mircea_popescu: the day we celebrate
the international phf's pregnancies day ?
mod6: mod6 can make up
the difference if required (I believe).
mod6: I'm fine
to do another round of at least 5 (maybe more) -- but I was under
the impression
that asciilifeform was sort-of nearly btc-tapped out. But I didn't want
to presume anything.
mircea_popescu: so agree
that you'll each add another 5btc as circumstances merit ;
then pizarro has all
the backing it needs and a clear path
to success. and if
the circumstances "merit" in
the sense
that it needs rescuing rather
than it's expanding, you can fire
the management and get someone else or w/e.
☟︎ mod6: But, yeah, we're
trying
to figure out what makes sense here.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> or does mod6 do 20 you do 5 and you're ballooned out ? :D <<
This is a possibility. Although, I'm not sure I want
to outlay
that much at
the moment.
mircea_popescu: the fact
that pizarro is actually well supported is
the principal part, for its commercial credit. otherwise, it can't well spend even
the 10 it has so far, 1.5 or so go
to
the rockchips,
then it's all "get sales going".
mod6: asciilifeform: how do you feel about such a proposition? If I add in another, say 5 or 10 BTC, does
this present any problems in your mind?
mod6: So
there's a couple
things in
the air: We're workin on it. :]
mod6: One
thing
that's immediately pressing us is
that we need
to figure out
this BTC->USD conversion problem discussed yesterday.
mod6: I
think I'm fine
to personally add in another 5 BTC at least, maybe 10 BTC. But depends on discussions, etc.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 14:42 asciilifeform: ( retaining some knob for dynamic linkage isn't
totally useless, it enables such
things as valgrind ; but i'm quite prepared
to lose valgrind, it is not really so necessary when writing asciilifeform-style -- heapless -- ada )
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i'm not opposed
to 2nd round, and would participate, iirc ben_vulpes & mod6 are weighing
the numberz even as we speak. << yeah, we've been
talking about
this, indeed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, oh
turns out i was confused, it is github he's doing.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6, you see holes in ye logic ? << Sounds good. I
think
that s.nsa building
the chassis
then we do it as stated is fine. (unless I misunderstand). Pizarro will pay for
these in cash. I agree
too on staying away from
the equity buys as well.
mircea_popescu: spyked, by
the way, are you hitting both ssh and
https for cert keys ? or just ssh ?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 13:37 asciilifeform: cross compiler also not very useful imho. let
the
thing build a pc and an arm compiler ( and yes if it has
to build cross compiler in
the process, let it , but consider it
to be a strictly intermediate step )
a111: Logged on 2018-05-16 13:35 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-16#1814192 << definitely not 28. unless a separate fg-less unit is built,
then can hold 32 . and yes i have a cad drawing in progress, so as
to work like men rather
than monkeys in africa
mircea_popescu: in any case is
the strategic reason for
the republican positioning.
mircea_popescu: this is
the sad fact of
the matter, fucktarded bureaucrats have managed
to shit over
the
true core of what europe even fucking ever was.
mircea_popescu: hey, other
then
the
times i get pissed off it's a pleasure.
mircea_popescu: well one direct solution is
to enlarge baloon as above.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, anyway, an' ftr, if your concern is
that you're underweight pizarro, you can just as well do a second round. see if mod6 wants
to either a) give it more btc or else b) move into a minority position. pizarro would certainly benefit from a larger piggy giving it more solidity etc, so you can do another 10-20 round either by yourself if mod6 is agreeable or else match
together or any which old way.
this isn't an u
mircea_popescu: i dunno why i assumed
that's
the case, but good you said something, as it'd never have occured
to me
to ask, either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, im not gonna let
them. i had no idea you didn't
think it's
the most excellent
the idea. now
that i do, hey.