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mircea_popescu: Neil no 1% was charged (site does indicate that, but it's erroneous). the tx is 3a01762308fc1c9b36478d3bb4c3198eb69f3c29ab24af2e4520727c7fa9c79c3a01762308fc1c9b36478d3bb4c3198eb69f3c29ab24af2e4520727c7fa9c79c once it propagates you can check it.
cazalla: moiety: not sure if any are exempt but you can go back again and again to rack up more debt
asciilifeform: fits great. don't need a gigantic tub
CheckDavid: I see. Because I guess banks wouldn't care that much
moiety: cazalla: i think you guys have certain degrees that never get fees at all, like nursing, right? bursary instead to get people to do it
asciilifeform: it's all fun'n'games until the boat girls mount DSHKs and hoist the black flag.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid they're sort-of govt backed in most places.
CheckDavid: cazalla: who issues the loan? Government?
asciilifeform: y got paid. They did eventually reappear, so there may be some merit to this theory. With the gaping manholes positioned throughout the city like so many anteater traps for cars, you had the choice of driving either very slowly and carefully, or very fast, and betting your life on the proper functioning of the shock absorbers.'
asciilifeform: 'Having bits of the landscape disappear can be a rude surprise. One summer I arrived in St. Petersburg and found that a new scourge had descended on the land while I was gone: a lot of manhole covers were mysteriously missing. Nobody knew where they went or who profited from their removal. One guess was that the municipal workers, who hadn't been paid in months, took them home with them, to be returned once the
cazalla: CheckDavid: you are only required to begin paying the debt once you earn over x amount
moiety: i know a guy who was trying to flirt with a girl a few years ago by giving her some bitcoins.... she contacted him when they hit $1k to tell him, she paid for her college tuition with them :)
cazalla: shipped to china like all the copper that gets knocked off i guess?
CheckDavid: cazalla: if you get a shitty job you don't have to pay debt?
mircea_popescu: almost enough to pay for college
mircea_popescu: " Police in Danville are investigating the theft of more than $15,000 worth of manhole covers that were stolen from various parts of the city"
ozbot: Nigel Thew: Brighton worker sacked after throwing drunk passenger off bus in Saltdean, East Sussex |
cazalla: tx fee i think he means
mircea_popescu: Neil i don't think it akes any fee does it ?
moiety: lol @ the contradiction of medicinal and subway :)
moiety: i would bite your hand off to go to uni ... but in my own time. worked since 14. it doesn't make you less of a person at all, they just like you to think so
moiety: i know one guy who did Politics, then Mental Health Nursing and now plans on a Philosophy degree
moiety: yep same, all the time. that or they just sign up for another degree
cazalla: they do that here in australia, a lot of graduates take jobs that pay under the threshold as to avoid paying back the debt
asciilifeform: and the 'college' racket could finally implode.
asciilifeform: they'd get $LOAN richer just by sending the creditors to pound sand up their arses.
asciilifeform: wonder how many of these folks would theoretically accept a russian passport and guaranteed metallurgical work in norilsk.
moiety: asciilifeform: here, you don't have to pay back your student loans until you earn over X amount
Neil: mircea_popescu: I don't remember you taking a 1% fee on such cancellations before on Bitbet.
asciilifeform: 'graduated in 2008 with about $25,000 of debt — just about the national average. More than five years later, she has only managed to pay back about $2,000.' << where did this kid work - Butugychag?
moiety: " It took two people to hold the camera, probably because it was heavy as fuck."
mircea_popescu: moiety depends what the ad copywriter was eating that day
moiety: so is the new production place in china a bunch of BS then?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` "If she could go back to her senior year of high school, Verge would make different choices, like hooking up with guys that beat her into sense and spend $24 a day on stockings alone rather than the current looser she's hitched with" ☟︎
Neil: Clearly kuka not even close to being able to cut the mustard
Neil: Yeah that kuka thing was a letdown. I was looking forward to having sthg interesting to watch when I got back home.
nubbins`: "If she could go back to her senior year of high school, Verge would make different choices, namely being more certain of what she wanted to study before spending $8,000 on a year's worth of university tuition, books and living costs."
mircea_popescu: i think i spend that much on stockings
mircea_popescu: $24 ? that's not that bad is it ?
nubbins`: yep, that'll bring in the bucks
nubbins`: "Verge's husband is currently pursuing a masters in history at Saint Mary's University in Halifax and hopes to continue into a PhD program. "
nubbins`: "Verge dicked around for three years on borrowed money at an average cost of $24/day"
nubbins`: "Verge originally intended to become a teacher, but changed her mind after one year at Memorial University. She spent the next two years at Nova Scotia Community College completing a photography program, hoping to become a photojournalist."
ozbot: Average student debt difficult to pay off, delays life milestones - Canada - CBC News
mircea_popescu: i closed the internal investigation without prejudice.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood. they seemed reasonably sane to begin with, german robotics maker with 1 bn in revenue worldwide
cazalla: i don't know whether to feel stupid for being duped by kuka or whether i should've known better
nubbins`: i prefer the term antisocial media for trees/teevees
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ten years later, multi-billion dollar business doesn't understand for the life of it why it can't sell anything anymore.
nubbins`: OH FUCK THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD
mircea_popescu: never buy anything from these fuckwits, they don't deserve to survive.
mircea_popescu: let the permanent record reflect that kuka is a piece of shit scam rather than a robot manufacturer, and that they made a bunch of fake news which resulted in http://bitbet.us/bet/760/kuka-table-tennis-robot-to-beat-human/ having to be cancelled.
mircea_popescu: 11 trn isk ~= 1k btc irc
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell antephialtic https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/443355527364739072 yet something tells me he's no different from all the other bitcoin noobs in imagining he knows better and etc bla bla yadda yadda
punkman1: "The 21-hour battle for B-R5RB resulted in more than 11 trillion ISK in damage, all thanks to a lapsed bill by one very important user in the EVE Online universe."
jurov bribes dub to stay off btc
ozbot: BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10%
cazalla: looks more like an advertisement than a match though
Apocalyptic: looks like it, hope the ATC guys didn't have much ATC there
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: Glad you made that exchange
Apocalyptic: hum, so Openex appears to be insolvent and is closing, guy is confused about what to do with outstanding balances
BingoBoingo: That he doesn't know of BitBet does not bode well for them.
benkay: and coinbr just a hop skip and a jump from that
benkay: mpex is right over there
antephialtic: Mircea_Popescu: you should get Marc Andreessen to invest in bitbet (https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/443260220379115520)
benkay: amazed it took so long.
Mats_cd03: idk much about this crypto shit except that the dongle seems to have more entropy? feel free to chime in if you know anything
Mats_cd03: isnt this inferior compared to yubikey
ozbot: Can this $70 dongle stem the epidemic of password breaches? | Ars Technica
nubbins`: bed time
mircea_popescu: if anyone is looking for a crazy hard exercise of romanian translation, i dare recomend http://trilema.com/2009/nevoi/
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=f2m | f2m. 1. Technically stands for Female to Male AKA "FTM". 2. Describes someone born w/ a Female physical form who feels they are actually male & were born ...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform parasuta is, of course, yet another way to say whore in romanian.
nubbins`: ya think?
nubbins`: you have to fuck him in the ass
nubbins`: "Why doesn’t the school just go for broke and provide kids with alcohol and copies of the Kama Sutra"
gribble: Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your ...: <http://biblehub.com/colossians/3-5.htm>; Colossians 3:5 KJV - Mortify therefore your members which - Bible ...: <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3:5&version=KJV>; Colossians 3:5 - Put to death, therefore, whatever - Bible Gateway: <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3:5>
nubbins`: odd advice to give
nubbins`: afaik leviticus 18:22 instructs you not to fuck men in their pussies
mircea_popescu: well... this leviticus is one i could get behind
gribble: Leviticus 18:22 - “'Do not have sexual relations with - Bible Gateway: <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+18:22>; Leviticus 18:22 KJV - Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as - Bible ...: <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+18%3A22&version=KJV>; Leviticus 18:22 "'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one ...: (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: what's this, "How to be fucktarded, a guide" ?
nubbins`: well, that's short and sweet
nubbins`: i actually won't try those sayings
nubbins`: "Try these sayings: 1 Corinthians 6:18 Leviticus 18:22 Colossians 3:5"
mircea_popescu: in who, in the girls ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: because your sin pokes holes in them
mircea_popescu: those should be the illustration on absent condoms
nubbins`: "get a job or you'll be asking people if they want fries with that" turns into "what are you, too good for a fast food job?" and people wonder why the kids are confused
mircea_popescu: wait, why are these realistic for condoms ?
nubbins`: "The condoms should have had more realistic pictures on them. Such as a teenager laying in bed with a baby crying in the background and an alarm clock showing 2 am, or a teenager with a paper hat on cooking fries."
ozbot: Cornul abundentei. Sau ma rog… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nubbins`: the ones with the roomy tips are nice
mircea_popescu: magnums are comfortable, the box is non-plastic and perforated, the individual wrappers tear easily.
mircea_popescu: benkay for instance i hate the durex brand because not only they fit much too tightly, but uber-retarded wrapping.
kakobrekla: now we came to the roots of round corner hate.
nubbins`: benkay, go buy a pack of ONE condoms and open 'em all on your first try
nubbins`: "maybe if we package these tennis balls in a large sphere"
benkay: what, you need a perforated strip too?!
mircea_popescu: the corners are there for a god damned purpose