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mircea_popescu: nubbins` a) couple HUNDRED ; b) if i taped up not a couple, a single "jeans and chewing gum" ad in soviet blok, i'd have needed the canadian mounties to keep order.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's exactly my point. none of those schmucks has a car.
ascii_field: nubbins`: a dime with a rope glued on
asciilifeform: nubbins`: there are many curious things in those heathen lands.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: neato, l0l
Bingoboingo: nubbins`: Nah, at last not any more than any recovering alcoholic how last time on a dating site chose the "used up" body type at 24
Bingoboingo: lol, nubbins is cashing out and bro'ing down
mircea_popescu: sooo nubbins` : just had blt ranchero with some absolutely splendid kimchi
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> srsly just style="visibility:hidden;"? << you're out of line!
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "wanted: someone less stupid than me" << no joke.
adlai has a foaf who nubbins`ed out of 'industrial design' into bending neon signs by hand
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i do mean fresh tho
mircea_popescu: nubbins` right. you ever seen either the thing or its output ?
mircea_popescu: there is SOME similarity with inkjet, exactly of the nature of nubbins` womanhood.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no, giclee was an actual thing. back before the americans got involved.
adlai: nubbins`: in my chain, "digital print" means i can read it off a node
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50." <<< imo this is the symptom of a badly written assembler or w/e the thing is.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> the company literally had to get a local college to offer a course in it, and they sent an employee over to teach it << this is how it should work, actually. all the OTHER courses should be discontinued, pretty much.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> (they still flaked, saw it with mine own) << there's a reason thermosensors are made out of two different materials stuck to each other. that reason is that this problem of geometric affixing is INCREDIBLY hard.
ascii_field: nubbins`: do you remember the thread where i described how to trivially rape such a coin ?
thestringpuller: nubbins`: as they say CREAM
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i was under the impression that kaspersky et al had snagged most of the decrypt keys? << ha-ha.
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> i was under the impression that kaspersky et al had snagged most of the decrypt keys? << For some pieces of ransomeware.
BingoBoingo: come on nubbins` everyone is doing it nao
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 19:52:37; nubbins`: put another way, let's say you rent for a year. at the end of the year, what do you have to show for it?
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:26:23; nubbins`: treating drug abuse as crime is maybe the dumbest thing i can think of at the moment
trinque: in the conversation linked, nubbins was discussing the newfie coke heads. seems like quite a task to stop the massive demand there.
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:25:23; nubbins`: trinque if there were no drug prohibition, the world would be a better, safer place
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:22:23; nubbins`: "but won't kids born to addict parents be fucked from the start and stay that way their whole lives?" yep
pete_dushenski: i blame the lack of nubbins` !
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 18:07:55; nubbins`: mircea_popescu lol my entire generation was spawned by people together enough to actually own something. and they're all fuckups
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 18:07:06; nubbins`: unremarkable in the sense that any asshole can get a windfall
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: i feel sorry for the idjits paying down 200k mortgage for house that will only ever be worth 100k. why not light money on fire ? stay warm, enjoy the show ?
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:49:06; nubbins`: pete_dushenski all the people whose houses are suddenly worth less than the outstanding mortgages would tend to disagree that "all will be well"
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: lol but voters can't handle the truth !
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: well, tbf, what other basket was there than oil ?
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:47:28; nubbins`: you've obv never been here
mircea_popescu: btw nubbins` if you want a job i prolly got something for you :D
mircea_popescu: actually The Story of Nubbins the Industrious would make a pretty decent book title.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` are you gonna get butthurt if i tell you the thing sucked ?
ascii_field: eh nubbins` i thought of you!111 every time i papercutted on my ragged bitcoin printout binder
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: whole thing was 'generous'. twas the point ;/
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski ironically, nubbins` retired from tech to do artsy bs, and now has a sweet tooth for anyone daring not be in tech!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` im actually on three computers. one of which is mining magical dungbeetles.
mircea_popescu: check it out, nubbins` schematic thought naufraged once more on the circuitous beaches of irl.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` for all you know it's a tax dodge
mircea_popescu: nubbins` iirc he said when i asked him, lemme see
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:13:22; nubbins`: worthy of a serious conversation between adults
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: anyways, once the residual albertabux dry up, newfoundland will go back to being a 'service economy' or whatever it's been since the cod packed up and left. your housing prices will return to the incredibly affordable 'normal' you were used to, and all will be well again until the next time a canadian province has a resource boom and your industrious young men provide the necessary cannon fodder.
trinque: nubbins`: well certainly
trinque: nubbins` │ the smarter ones say "i can't get out of this on my own, i need help" << >> nubbins` │ sure there is, it's called therapy
ascii_field: nubbins`: in 'dole countries', the thing is barely enough for scum-life. satan help you if you've tasted human living
trinque: nubbins` is assuming a big, cozy socialist state to take care of them
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: sent to gulag, fine
ascii_field: nubbins`: what's it take to land that work anyway
ascii_field: nubbins`: we have legends of this kind of thing here, with lottery players
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: more like $170k, even $270k
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 16:56:24; nubbins`: lol. and wiping your ass after taking a shit is more addictive than cheese
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: omg. from 10 to 13. whatevershallbedone
phf: nubbins`: I have another bug report with 10.11, but this one's just odd. I'll check it out tonight
mircea_popescu: nubbins` for the record, there's no further work needed to run eulora on osx, phf got it going.
assbot: Logged on 05-12-2015 16:46:32; nubbins`: never you mind about when i've been seen
thestringpuller: oh hey nubbins` how was your summer
nubbins`: [13:13:30] -SaslServ- Last failed attempt from: Nubbins!62717b9f@gateway/web/cgi-irc/kiwiirc.com/ip.98.113.123.159 on Nov 16 02:17:30 2015.
gribble: nubbins` was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 2 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 59 seconds ago: <nubbins`> autographs for only 5 tx fees ☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;seen nubbins`
ascii_field: my original purpose for asking nubbins for The Book, if anyone remembers, was so that i could rewrite.
asciilifeform: nubbins ?
mircea_popescu: vaguely reminds me of the dude nubbins prosecuted, with the "hand made" laser etched wood clunks
mircea_popescu: heck, maybe you become more famous than nubbins
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:19:54; mircea_popescu: nubbins` iirc is a full fledged rentier, lives off of it
mircea_popescu: nubbins` iirc is a full fledged rentier, lives off of it ☟︎
ascii_field: recall why i asked nubbins` for the book!
BingoBoingo: Oh, nubbins` the celebrity is back
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 13:30:20; nubbins`: davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is the best one
davout: nubbins`: nice!
ascii_field: nubbins`: this was an ancient thread. mircea_popescu explained that if people could update keys of mpex account, it would become practical to sell 'secondhand'
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: aha. 'rights'
pete_dushenski: "Keefe had to leave his 'ugly stick' at the door. The homemade musical instrument is popular in mummer tradition. (Courtesy of Jon Keefe)" << nubbins`! you're famous !
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: lulzy tho. never head of 'mummers' before.
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-10-2015#1296773 ☝︎
ascii_field: welcome back nubbins`
pete_dushenski: heya nubbins`
danielpbarron: ;;later tell nubbins` my thing is a 'DS' so unless you think that game will also work on it, I'll have to pass on your offer
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:05:59; nubbins`: your name is irrelevant
trinque: nubbins`: mime types are a shitty implementation of something that came before it
asciilifeform: nubbins`: phun phakt: tungsten bars have 100% genuine assay marks.
mircea_popescu: forever -1 nubbins`
asciilifeform: nubbins`: sop. can go, buy now
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> mp's argument is hey if you're refugeeing, tanzania is just as good as anywhere else << no. my argument is that if you're refugeeing, where you go to refugee discriminates you. if you go to the eu, you're a scumbag. if you go to tanzania, you're somebody.
trinque: nubbins`: ah the way the colors shift, got that on the last trip
asciilifeform: nubbins`: not the point
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:42:17; nubbins`: what's alf gonna do in tanzania?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:42:34; nubbins`: but he doesn't know how
cazalla: nubbins`, sounds like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6RZzdGki8
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 19:58:20; nubbins`: mp can probably relate tales of .ro folk going apeshit in streets in late 80s, early 90s, and they weren't muslim
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 19:57:55; nubbins`: going apeshit in the streets is generally a direct result of treatment, either by other citizens or government
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 19:54:52; nubbins`: refugees escaping an oppressive regime
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wut ?!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` "germany" in the sense of "not them", not germany in the sense of, "everyone in this perimeter".