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ben_vulpes: <sjsqd>
nubbins`: the goal of my articles is to try and ascertain how transparently the foundation currently operates << the goal of your articles is to apparently rack up pageviews.
sjsqd:
nubbins`:given the current state of foundation communications it is actually quite difficult to ascertain exactly what it is tasked with doing
sjsqd:
nubbins`:interesting
sjsqd:
nubbins`: the goal of my articles is to try and ascertain how transparently the foundation currently operates
BingoBoingo:
nubbins`: Dunchu No, U let everyone deposit everything and just hope some sort of market stability sticks
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nubbins`: mircea_popescu, maybe a poster campaign with a bit of cheekiness this time
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu>
nubbins` in public ? << Plenty of people in a bar have been slipped mickeys
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` yeah well if you're about to take down the president but can't resist a little social pressure...
BingoBoingo:
nubbins`: Thing of it as argueing against a laser dude
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` sounds like a fine way to begin your qntra career.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform>
nubbins`: mircea_popescu takes a 'sapper errs once' attitude to bitcoin compatibility, for reasons which should need no explanation << Kinda why my -qt OpenBSD experiment is vaguely described in blog post. If I hit a grendade do not want others suffering same one
BingoBoingo:
nubbins`: 750 ml, so 5 of those would be a gallon if liters were quarts
BingoBoingo:
nubbins`: 1/5th is its own unit of measure for packaged liquor
chetty:
nubbins`, yeah got to admit I was a little annoyed with myself, no landline here either so no phone charged was kinda dumb
thestringpuller:
nubbins`: one symptom of information addiction is "forgets to callback". People who check their phone compulsively will see a text or missed call and make note in working memory to get back with the person.
thestringpuller:
nubbins`: i find those who get snarky are the most addicted.
thestringpuller:
nubbins`: i do this with texts. No vibration no sound. Have to put it on ring profile for them to make a noise. But usually you start to check messages when you feel like it rather than compulsively.
chetty: <
nubbins`> turn off the ring and vibrate functions on your phone, and leave them off.// most people just cant do that, already addicted
pete_dushenski:
nubbins` lol i thought you were talking about the tracking device part for a sec
decimation: <
nubbins`> probably unrelated but there's been a comms van w/ gov plates parked down the road from me for like a week
PeterL:
nubbins`: I am not saying self-sufficiency, I am saying rivaling china for output. I also have no idea how one would go about doing it, just saying there are lots of people in Africa which could be used as a resource for the right person
ascii_field:
nubbins`: it lets you debug boot, and see kernel output prior to nic init
ascii_field:
nubbins`: where i live, the 'tuition freeze' is a total scam. they raise 'fees'
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` how did you get the idea twodogs is cool as in, someone'd want to move there as a thing to do, rather than "whatever, they are giving out money here"
pete_dushenski:
nubbins` ya well administration after graduation is very much closing the barn doors after the horses have left
pete_dushenski:
nubbins` outmigration out of maritimes or out of the country ?
mircea_popescu: heh. greece, the least rich eu country, adheres to
nubbins` ideals!
punkman:
nubbins`: i mean like countries where post-secondary is free, for everyone << Greece is one
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` generally you don't have to pay if you're very very good. at least the ones i'm familiar with.
BingoBoingo:
nubbins`: I'm discounting functional retards from that set
thestringpuller:
nubbins` is like guy who will joke about dufflebags of cocaine in trunk of car while crossing border
punkman:
nubbins`: well, shitty dope doesn't have that, but if you spritz it with saline... << if only the retards came up with saline. I've read about some assholes using spray with glass beads (the kind used to make shiny road paint) that would penetrate the flowers.
BingoBoingo: <
nubbins`> except you don't inject meth into your bloodstream << Sometimes actually used in this manner
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` yeah i totally want to hear what vice has to say o.O
thestringpuller:
nubbins`: 22yo college grad, now there's a thing you see less and less << took me 7 years to get through GATech. Failed Calculus like 9 times.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` what's that like, elk horn hat, maple syrup pants ?
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` i meant "resources" as in warcraft2. whatever, vespene gas and the othe rone
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` 9 months with gunnery sargeant hartman, on the understanding that if you fail you get your balls chopped off and spend the rest of your life = the next few years chained to a wall in a brothel for arab fags.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` let me put it this way : romania had mandatory universal male draft.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins`> no, actually useful enough around the house that i'll need to get a second one for tinkering << ahahaha
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:
nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually a thing. <<< print issues are a bit lacking these days, but for the $20/yr or w/e...
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:
nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?! <<< i actually make money *now*, just... less 8)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
nubbins`: elementary fact is that i can only keep my wot obligations (s.nsa) if i have present level of equipment and time << When BTC funded taxi leaves USia, maybe missile takes it down in interesting place and we all meet the "boys from brazil"
mircea_popescu:
nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually a thing.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?!
mircea_popescu:
nubbins`: why do i get the impression [...] << because you're an asshole. just like me.