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asciilifeform: it brings in a few $10k/yr in maintenance contracts, dated into eternity
decimation: yeah that's a good point, that's why the software companies get away with charging $$$ for crapware
decimation: I remember orcad's autorouter was crap back in the day. I would be deeply disappointed to shell out $$$ and have crapware
asciilifeform: beauty is, you can now do experiment (vs gedankenexperiment) yourself, just need ~$100 and local computer junk shop
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2014#712142 yet "11,665 Backers $2,480,795 pledged of $200,000 goal 4 days to go" ☝︎
mike_c: aapl is under $100 now! totally a good reason for the stock to shoot up 20%!
mthreat: mike_c: AMZN is close, $150B cap, 520 PE
mike_c: right, but what is $123 in yuan
mike_c: 22b * $123 = $2.5 T. that is pretty far off
mike_c: look at the summary at the top. 22b shares * $123 = $225b mkt cap??
mike_c: hm, the petrochina ADR i see has $225b cap and pe 11
mike_c: $380b at a fking 30 p/e
mike_c: pop quiz (no cheating). name a company with mkt cap > $200b and p/e > 20.
mircea_popescu: mircea@inigo-montoya:/media/ce570767-bda1-4312-b09f-99a812e19f3e$ gpg 95bad940ebdc9bfcda86ea087d376ca179c59ebe
mircea_popescu: U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane Tinsley set the arraignment for August 21, 2013 and released Thornsbury on a $10,000 unsecured bond.
assbot: New York Man Faces Criminal Charges For $17 Million Ponzi Scheme - Ponzitracker - Ponzitracker
mike_c: "The company said it would raise $100 million, but that is just a placeholder until closer to the offering date."
mike_c: that might be raising $100m, not the valuation
pankkake: GoDaddy hasn't made a profit since 2009. The company lost $279 million in 2012. It bled another $200 million last year. This year doesn't look much better, with another $51 million lost in the first quarter
assbot: GoDaddy Files For $100 Million IPO - Slashdot
davout: fluffypony: if it's $30 for < $10,000/day, $300 for < $100k, $3000 for < $1mn that's still a percentage
fluffypony: davout: apparently even their Enterprise packages for > $100k daily are flat fee and not %
davout: fluffypony: it's not really flat -> Up to $100,000 daily
fluffypony: $30/month gives you up to $10k daily
fluffypony: thestringpuller: Bitpay is 1% on starter, else $30/month no fees
[]bot: Bet placed: 15.25523358 BTC for No on "1BTC >= $10,000 USD" http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 15(Y):85(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 490.17913538 BTC. Current weight: 45,685.
pankkake: $150,000 worth of NSF-supported computer use at the two universities to generate bitcoins worth about $8,000 to $10,000
[]bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for No on "BTC worth over $5000 before 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/716/ Odds: 42(Y):58(N) by coin, 43(Y):57(N) by weight. Total bet: 13.25076814 BTC. Current weight: 54,957.
[]bot: Bet placed: 10 BTC for No on "1BTC >= $10,000 USD" http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 474.9239018 BTC. Current weight: 45,777.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: tapes are $20 / TB. can't beat that with a stick. << quite true.
mike_c: tapes are $20 / TB. can't beat that with a stick.
mircea_popescu: carton of ciggaretes ? $19
mthreat: $0.01 per GB-month (although retrieval apparently is more expensive)
Namworld: with regards to $/GH/W and unparalleled ASIC diversification with essentially three different ASIC products available from one production batch."
mike_c: paying $20 for an ebook means you hate freedom (and children)
mike_c: $3 for an ebook sounds like the right price to me.
mike_c: 1965 - 76 aren't online, but the ebook is only $3.
assbot: Kim Dotcom offers $5m for legal help | Stuff.co.nz
mthreat: buffett talks about that a lot, e.g. from 1994: "Though there are as many good businesses as ever, it is useless for us to make purchases that are inconsequential in relation to Berkshire's capital. … We now consider a security for purchase only if we believe we can deploy at least $100 million in it. Given that minimum, Berkshire's investment universe has shrunk dramatically.
mike_c: with $200b in equity you ignore that shit.
mike_c: pizzeria = $100k. will double for 10 years yielding.. $100m
mike_c: i wouldn't want to be him because he's trying to grow a capital base of $200B.
FabianB: kakobrekla: can you include former mpexbot commands $depth, $vwap and $proxies into assbot ?
TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu I'm looking for information about the WTI Jan 2015 > $200 because it spoke hedge to me from the beginning
mdev: $300k
[]bot: Bet placed: 10 BTC for No on "1BTC >= $10,000 USD" http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 20(Y):80(N) by weight. Total bet: 464.9239018 BTC. Current weight: 46,470.
assbot: How Kim Dotcom's $5m Whistleblower Bounty Will Work | TorrentFreak
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: PS. I'm valuing my next company at $1 billion despite it having accomplished very little and/or nothing << what were we gonna ipo again? iWalletBackup inspired by usagi?
decimation: the downside: $3 for a NAND chip
mike_c: $vwap x.idiff.jun
mike_c: plus, $50k is 1 trillion. could end up at 2t, or 5t
mike_c: so wtf is that.. $50k btc price?
mike_c: so you say $2 trillion, gold is worth $7 trillion, so let's say btc is going to be worth $1 trillion
mike_c: $8.3 bn
mike_c: obviously $8bn is a joke. it can't stay there.
mike_c: to put this in perspective. it's August 2013. price is $100. "the price was $240 in april, hasn't moved in months"
other_mp: las operaciones de compraventa de inmuebles durante abril en la ciudad de buenos aires alcanzaron las 2681 operaciones por un monto de $2000 miliones
fluffypony: PS. I'm valuing my next company at $1 billion despite it having accomplished very little and/or nothing
fluffypony: of course Uber is worth $17 billion
assbot: UBER UBER ALLES: Investors value ride app at $17 BEEELLION The Register
assbot: All that glitters: businessman 'who bought HK$270m of gold' ends up with metal bars | South China Morning Post
BingoBoingo: Seriously just buy ~$1000 in chips to just sit in front of you and play with a $100 bankroll from that pile. And watch the drinks come in.
fluffypony: went and drew another $300
fluffypony: managed to win a few hands and build that up to $600, was super proud of myself
fluffypony: I tried gambling when I was younger - read a bunch of books on playing Blackjack, played a whole lot of games against the computer, and then went to the casino with my $300
asciilifeform: cost: perhaps $10k.
mike_c: $379.68 a year
mike_c: an m1 is exactly $422.20 a year
mike_c: and an m1 is $420 a year
mike_c: benkay: link? i don't see dedicated hetzner's for less than $800 a year
asciilifeform: if you're gonna buy a $10 bar of soap, it might as well be made from weasel fat if you go in for that kind of thing.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> davout: drinking aero-pressed espresso in a mongodb mug << let me ruin your day for you. coffee in argentina ? comes PRE SWEET$ENED. and i don't even mean the bags. i mean the MOTHERFUCKING BEANS;. they sugar-cook them. << i only ever found 1 acceptable cup in bsas
mircea_popescu: i hear going rate is like $500 for minors
mircea_popescu: davout: drinking aero-pressed espresso in a mongodb mug << let me ruin your day for you. coffee in argentina ? comes PRE SWEET$ENED. and i don't even mean the bags. i mean the MOTHERFUCKING BEANS;. they sugar-cook them.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c yesterday I checked your page http://www.btcalpha.com/mpif-tracker/ and I saw that mpif was 15 satoshi ahead, and slowly gaining. so i went to sleep AND GAVE IT ALMOST TEN HOURS only to wake up and find that it is now ONLY !$ ahead. I was never told this can go backwards, I was led to expect this goes up WHAT SORT OF A SCAM ARE YOU RUNNNING!
BingoBoingo: Nothing about paying $500 a local pickup requires any measure of "wealth"
mircea_popescu: Naphex: Posts about people paying 28,000$ for mining equipment and still not delivering weeks after deadline. is it just me or thats a hell of a lot money to be pissing people off for << not so lulzy. they're not even the first romanian bunch.
Apocalyptic: Bach proves: 1) If you can compute log. modulo $N$, you can factor $N$ 2) If you can factor $N$ and compute logs modulo each factor, then you can compute logs. modulo $N$
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: BingoBoingo: i actually had wondered why $15k plus damages -- didn't realize until you pointed out that they didn't touch s.dice << yeah, funny how that worked huh.
mircea_popescu: assbot: The First 'Bitcoin 2.0' Kickstarter-like Campaign Was A Wildly Successful $7 Million Disaster - Forbes << a good title for once.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: "the sec is pleased to announce that it suffered a net loss of only $150,000 in securing mr voorhees' conviction" << it wasn't a conviction. more like "the sec spent 150k for bitcoin people to go "here's a dime go buy something nice for yourself and stfu"" ☟︎
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under $300 before June :: 4.75 B (10%) on Yes, 41.24 B (90%) on No | closed 1 week 3 days ago
fluffypony: mike_c: Mining Equipment Present Value: $120mn. Mining Equipment Future Value: $120mn.
mircea_popescu: "and expects $210 million in revenue for this year, on $120 million in EBITDA, Mr. Kikvadze said"
mircea_popescu: "BitFury Group Ltd. last week secured one of the largest rounds of funding in the bitcoin sector, bringing in $20 million."
Naphex: Posts about people paying 28,000$ for mining equipment and still not delivering weeks after deadline. is it just me or thats a hell of a lot money to be pissing people off for
[]bot: Bet placed: 2.06 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin over $1000 before September" http://bitbet.us/bet/866/ Odds: 67(Y):33(N) by coin, 67(Y):33(N) by weight. Total bet: 9.08379439 BTC. Current weight: 89,889.
BingoBoingo: In StL proper you find Sub $5k houses without buyers, because Oh noes, negros!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Around here there are livable houses near $40k in decent towns
asciilifeform: the actual 'free market' price of a u.s. suburban house, if none of this were happening, is probably close to $10k (number pulled from my arse)
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: i actually had wondered why $15k plus damages -- didn't realize until you pointed out that they didn't touch s.dice
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for No on "Bitcoin over $1000 before September" http://bitbet.us/bet/866/ Odds: 57(Y):43(N) by coin, 58(Y):42(N) by weight. Total bet: 7.02379439 BTC. Current weight: 90,188.
assbot: The First 'Bitcoin 2.0' Kickstarter-like Campaign Was A Wildly Successful $7 Million Disaster - Forbes
chetty: (approximately $3.8 mil
chetty: $
nubbins`: "the sec is pleased to announce that it suffered a net loss of only $150,000 in securing mr voorhees' conviction"
nubbins`: how did they come to $35k?
fluffypony: "giving up the profits of $15,843.98 and paying a penalty of $35,000"
nubbins`: "Voorhees agreed to settle the charges by giving up the profits of $15,843.98 and paying a penalty of $35,000."
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under $300 before June :: 4.75 B (10%) on Yes, 41.24 B (90%) on No | closed 1 week 2 days ago