crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2023-10-13#1115442 << was gonna be my weekend until ol' mates diff explodes this mornin'
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2023-10-13 Vex: not a book, but 223, cans and a fire.
crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: r u spying on me vex
crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: floating balloons
crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: nah nah, if anyones full of air here it's me
crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2023-10-12#1115436 << industrial ag is built on debt these days
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2023-10-12 Vex: Well mangaed farmland on the otherhand oughtta be for inflation resistant.
crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2023-10-12#1115433 << ever feel like it's a one-way street?
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2023-10-12 Vex: i saw a financial advisor long ago. young guy in a shit office. i'd reckon he's doing okay now; he did mor listening than talking
crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: err 1 way mirror?
crtdaydreams[asciilifeform]: sorry for being a chit sunt
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2023-10-13#1115443 << lol. damn.
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2023-10-13 Vex: het awt if signpost says he feels another co coming on, mebbe ask if there's anthing you can do
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: No disrespect to signpost. He knows I'm available for that already. To be clear, doing fine. Everything's fine. Have been known to start my own companies in the past, albeit the more socially acceptable cool (at the time) SV types.
signpost[asciilifeform]: I think we're all trying to find a lifeboat of some sort atm, regardless of personal financial security as represented in the company store database of fiat.
signpost[asciilifeform] currently deciding between off-grid ranch and moving straight atop one of the bullseyes like asciilifeform
signpost[asciilifeform]: as far as fartups go, I'm always hacking on things, but I have no obvious win bets to share.
signpost[asciilifeform]: and I respect awt_akris' ability to handle himself
asciilifeform did the 'companies' thing befoar, lost shirt repeatedly, satisfied that ~impossible for it to end well w/out some kinda meatwot 'link to money pipeline' i.e. political favour
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: ^ was friend's strategy. worked out well. "find rich friends and they'll just give you money"
asciilifeform: awt_akris: last time asciilifeform played that roulette, found that even dough aint enuff (unless i suppose it's a bankmanesque amt of dough) , still gotta either sell sumthing or pawn it off to sucker upstream, befoar dough runs out
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Other formulas such as "go to most expensive gym, cigar lounge, hangout"
asciilifeform: hence, apropos http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-10-11#1030940 , asciilifeform would readily bet (while still has what) but very much depending on the odds.
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-10-11 23:24:52 signpost: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-10-11#1030913 << I'm on record firmly in favor of people being willing to bet.
asciilifeform: awt_akris: 'round here even reasonably well-off plebes have in-house gym. wai would moneybag go to a public one
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Dunno but people pay upwards of $300/mo for gym. Filters out most.
asciilifeform: filters out the hobos & unemployed, perhaps, lol
asciilifeform: at any rate asciilifeform's comment wasn't re 'what to eat while you bake $product', for this not needs rockefeller. but the 'pawn it off part' does.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Indeed, friend failed to sell the cash cow enterprise, but fortunately plowed enough into BTC and ended up with a kind of maintenance stipend to boot.
signpost[asciilifeform]: I suppose I’m a lucky, handsome sociopath, but I had no funding or connections.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: dark triad bitcoiner!
signpost[asciilifeform]: The restaurant industry had just had a mega forest fire in 08 as everything went splat, and most of my payments clients started their restaurant after that, were willing to try us out.
signpost[asciilifeform]: and sure, being in fiat payments means I bolted myself firmly to the brrrr
signpost[asciilifeform]: even if no VC cash
signpost[asciilifeform]: we didn’t scam anybody though, just took the smallest percentage txn fee in our market, and charged that as an explicit line item at checkout to their customers. our “differentiator” was simply a lack of price gouging, as no VCs to please
signpost[asciilifeform]: survivorship bias, but when scammers abound, honesty can work.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Re: Akris - had an instance running for perhaps months - yesterday it suddenly crashed. Couldn't find the stack trace. If anyone sees the same let me know.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Akris Desktop, that is.