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benkay: ThickAsThieves:i have
a contract with Neo
ThickAsThieves: pLambert I'm not clear to line of your questioning as it seems somewhat speculative, but as I mentioned, the relationship from the start was
a contractual one between separate parties
pLambert: was neobee using TAT as
a way to get into the community? I feel like there were scammers that did something similar before?
benkay: was goat not
a pirate pass through operator?
tg2: fk
a guy I fired is making 170k/yr at amazon now :'9
benkay: although Survant James hit
a milestone recently - we now have eight full months of runway in the bank at current rates.
ThickAsThieves: the offering was always under the control of Neo, any role I was
a part of was as an independent contractor
pLambert: is it really
a pass-through if the company is running it themself?
mircea_popescu: possibly butthurt over having shed 50% over
a week and well... yet another one of those great "half your money in half
a year" glbse-style things.
mircea_popescu: nono, worked with those two, ended up making
a game company which burned through 10mn of 1990s dollars to make some katana game
tg2: this is
a nice curated collection
moiety: ;; later tell mircea_popescu
a turtle surfing seal pup?! lolol
the20year2: i haven't had to buy
a single share to increase price
assbot: I haven't understood
a single word you've said since I met you, not one single word.
tg2: ok ok shoot it with
a firearm
benkay: going to puncture it on
a drunken weekend soon
benkay: crashed
a model airplane recently, banana'd
a battery.
benkay: nigga i know what
a pop pin is
benkay: could it be
a metal pop pin?
benkay: seems
a bit inertia-y for plastic
tg2: i'd like to see
a tesla drive over that
mircea_popescu: mike_c well see, there's
a reason why karate guys break one foot of brick but never try half inch of cast iron pot.
benkay: what,
a tow hitch is brissant?
mike_c: they ran over an alternator and
a tow hitch. but they were brissant.
benkay: mike_c: show me the same thing with
a piece of steel
a la what kicked off
a recent Tesla fire.
mircea_popescu: punkman there's
a bug of stupid going around, they fucked up namecheap earilier.
tg2: they're doing the world
a service.
tg2: its
a combination of soil and sun and temperature
mircea_popescu: but ideally, people should live in places where
a properly dug cellar maintains
a proper temperature with no exceptions.
tg2: I have
a pit cellar (under the house) and cold air tends to make it's way down there
punkman: same thing is shipped to France and bottled, then sold to Americans for
a huge premium
mircea_popescu: they make something like 10 mn bottles
a year, most of it sold as entry and mid range wine. if you run into it tho buy it, because it's probably the best you'll ever drink at that price level.
tg2: at the back of
a fridge
tg2: I found
a case of opus one in
a convenience store in maui
tg2: but it's $325
a bottle here
BingoBoingo: I have trouble trusting
a brand named after something
a brand is supposed to have, rather than actually having its own
tg2: i can give you
a list of "to-try" if youw ant
tg2: wife's family owns
a bunch of dairy farms
BingoBoingo: St Louis also has
a sort of privately run beer welfare, take the free AB brewery tour and get two beers at the end
benkay: the monopoly is
a horrendous thing.
BingoBoingo: Walk up to the counter, walk out with
a keg
benkay: we labor under
a state sponsored liquor monopoly.
benkay: asciilifeform: this defense ignores the store mandates that store employees not actually do anything during
a theft for fear of liability.
mircea_popescu: rithm if us ngos were actually useful rather than
a cozy retreat for useless white cunts, we'd have some research data available as to actual economic expenditure of ghetto household
navhul-lacsup: maybe
a clone written for the JVM would be more popular/successful
navhul-lacsup: i like
a lot of technical goals of the project, but I do worry that it is too radical to take off
the20year2: if i had
a major need for one i could have picked up
a few by now
benkay: lucky them, living in such
a slow time and communing with such giants.
diametric: yeah I have
a 79 (i think?) tektronics of some sort I haven't used very much
diametric: oh, I have
a collection but ultimately I don't do enough electronics work to give that great of opinions on it.
ozbot: College offers
a course on Miley Cyrus, but not twerking
punkman: asciilifeform: what's
a good chinese brand for scopes?
benkay: once had to design
a nightmare of
a cable harness for wafer probing.
ozbot: Extreme Electronics | Capacitance of
a human body