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mircea_popescu: "3. CEO at my hospital laid off 10% of the nurses last year and got a
$7M bonus."
mircea_popescu: "Office space alone can eat you alive. Between Pissy and I we have 2100 square feet. And we're paying
$5100 a month for that. "
bitcoinpete: we were talking about 65 of them to the tune of
$25M or so
bitcoinpete: "The land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the ICBMs, that we saw are just one part of the nuclear triad that includes missiles on submarines and bombers. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that operating and upgrading all three legs of the triad is going to cost at least
$355 billion over the next 10 years."
dub: Duffer1: don't read anything else that mouthbreather fingerfarts then he's 100
$ retarded
mircea_popescu: The bankruptcy terms allows Berkshire Hathaway and Ocwen to purchase over
$400 billion worth of mortgages and RMBS trusts for less than
$5 billion. Once these mortgages are sold, Berkshire Hathaway and Ocwen will be bankruptcy remote. That means that once the mortgage assets are sold to them, American homeowners, like Morse, will not be able to obtain, through discovery, in judicial proceedings, the documents pertainin
ozbot: BitBet - 1BTC >=
$10,000 USD
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under
$300 before June
ThickAsThieves: and then if you have
$1m you can look at the nice waterfront stuff
ThickAsThieves: you can get get a plain new house for like
$180k 2000sqft
fluffypony: but still,
$1 mil goes a lot further here than the small-ish town my in-laws are in in Germany
fluffypony: R10 mil (
$1 mil-ish) won't even touch sides there
mircea_popescu: "650+ Search engine unique traffics by Google/Facebook/Twitter/Youtube/... for
$1"
☟︎ cazalla: mircea_popescu:
$5? tell him's dreamin'
mircea_popescu: a pepper mill that retails for
$25 at Bed Bath & Beyond could be yours for 35 cents and moved on to a 28yo fuckwit that just bought a diamond ring and a mortgage for the low low price of
$5.
mircea_popescu: give her
$100 to buy fishnet stockings, watch her come back with a purse and batteries.
fluffypony: wow, ThickAsThieves we'd pay
$37k-ish for that here
mircea_popescu: "44% of Americans are living with less than
$5,887 in savings for a family of four" << fun fact ? most romanians own more than that.
ThickAsThieves: you are obligated to report any foreign account with more than
$10k
decimation: The CFED calls these folks ?liquid asset poor,? and its report finds that 44% of Americans are living with less than
$5,887 in savings for a family of four. The plight of these folks is compounded by the fact that the recession ravaged many Americans? credit scores to the point that now 56% percent of us have subprime credit.
decimation: In the first quarter of 2014, mortgage originations at Citigroup Inc. (NYSE/C) declined 71% from the same period a year ago. The bank issued
$5.2 billion in mortgages in the first quarter of 2014, compared to
$8.3 billion in the previous quarter and
$18.0 billion in the first quarter of 2013. (Source: Citigroup Inc. web site, last accessed April 14, 2014.)
BingoBoingo:
$100-80 until the rally to the millenial value
BingoBoingo: Sure. But if we value the BTC on the benkay principle that it is never worth parting with, it holds. Now with the sinking Patrick Harnet only cost 500 BTC or
$2500, sure. This continutes to the mysticism surrounding BTC prices.
kakobrekla: free as in not taken, not not costing any
$ fluffypony: costs about
$5 500 for a company to list
nextime: for 20
$ in a week, tooling fee if we will have a continued relationship isn't an issue
nextime: on 50 pieces we are ~ at 20
$ each
fluffypony: "For the slaves, i was thinking about using a pic18f67j60, it is an 8 bit MCU with an ethernet mac/phy embedded, and it is very powerfull. the same circuit we have for the expansion board with this MCU and a magnetic rj45 connector will cost the same for prototipes and no more than 15
$ each in production for low batches."
fluffypony: "easy also to prototipe, so i expect to have a "few prototipes" costs between 15/20
$ each, and a production price no more than 10/12
$ each for low batches ( ~ 100 pieces )"
fluffypony: asciilifeform: it's basically exactly like Freenet except for some reason they "need"
$3.5 mil to write the software and launch
fluffypony: fast forward 2 years and they "go bankrupt" and this new crowd that registered a business like a month ago "buys" all their existing contracts and databases and everything for
$100 or something stupid
fluffypony: kakobrekla: well, it's also a cheaper proposition - our market isn't only people-with-
$$$, the BOINC/Folding@Home crowd need better cooling than 20cm fans in an ATX case but they can't afford / don't want to spend money on water cooling or mineral oil immersion
mircea_popescu: "MILK FUTURES RISE TO RECORD
$24.29 PER 100 LBS IN CHICAGO. Who needs food anyway" << clearly, BingoBoingo isn't telling us everything.
ThickAsThieves: you ask for
$350k when
$100k would take you a long way if you focused
ThickAsThieves: "o CoinhasanenabledBTCmarketonCryptsywithmorethan
$1000worthofbuyorders"
ThickAsThieves: you mention
$65k for software dev, and that's for a worker doing it in his spare time?
ThickAsThieves: with wanting to spend
$7500/mo marketing, it seems even more sensible to focus on hardware over paybee and such
BingoBoingo: Or eastern bloc people is a
$50 mosin enough for "mice"
fluffypony: I played around with arbitrage on BitX.co.za, crappy local exchange, as it generally sits ~5% above Bitstamp, but with a daily volume of ~10 BTC it ends up being a lot of work for maybe
$50 in profit
mircea_popescu: "Once the tobacco is on the compound, the pouches wholesale for 50 books of stamps, or
$300 each. Each pouch is then broken down into 80 to 100 tiny rollups that cost one book each, or six dollars. A
$3 pouch of Bugler ends up retailing inside for about
$600—a 20,000% markup."
fluffypony: so I pointed out that lending a buddy 200k Dogecoin today is worth a whopping
$120, but Dogecoin's market cap is tiny (
$44 mil as opposed to
$6.2 bil), and would he trust his buddy to not run with those coins if they were worth
$17 000?
Duffer1: " PayPal global asset protection officer, told her that as of September 2013, PayPal froze BFL’s account containing
$11 million and that PayPal received 6,000 complaints in total."
ThickAsThieves: "Vleisides' finances have been in question for the past several months," particularly because his residence "was recently purchased by BFL for approximately
$400,000 in cash.
mircea_popescu: "We would also let you know that a letter is also attached to your package. However, we cannot quote its content to you via E-mail for privacy reasons. We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft worth
$800,000.00 USD; in FedEx we do not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUE but in Bank Drafts only."
HeySteve: mircea_popescu I found another of his oil paintings going for nearly
$10 mil
bounce: ``If you have
$100 million or more to invest, we'll be happy to talk to you. :) Otherwise we are not taking on investors.'' -- totally legit
mircea_popescu: <bounce> an objective measure? a metre, standard the world over. < 1 ; <bounce> whether I take a tape measure to
$derp or you do it, when done correctly we both will conclude the guy's length to be
$whatever. < 2
bounce: whether I take a tape measure to
$derp or you do it, when done correctly we both will conclude the guy's length to be
$whatever. that'd be objective. we both look at his WOT ratings, we might well draw different conclusions on the same data.
bounce: when's the liquour strong enough? well, if it's over
$strength. something like that.
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$vwap s.mpoe
Shakespeare: ASCII gave your cabbie a bunch
$20 bills this morning. I couldn't tell which of them enjoyed it more
fluffypony: "
$22 billion/[(310 million people)(12 years)(~
$5,000/person/year)]=0.0012.
$22 billion would meet about 0.12% of the health insurance costs for 12 years. Actual cost would be
$18.6 trillion. Health insurance would have to cost
$5.91 per person per year for
$22 billion to cover everyone for 12 years."
fluffypony: "A raid of his home in the wealthy neighborhood of Mexico City produced what police described as "the largest single drug cash seizure the world has ever seen." Almost
$207 million sat in the house in cash. Seven high-powered firearms were also in the house, the New York Times reported."
BingoBoingo: "This drives me crazy when people don't include the costs of labor. It would be like someone getting a car donated to them and saying "Wow cars only cost
$200 for a title and registration! Why do people pay thousands of dollars for a car!?" Because someone gave you one for free!"
ozbot:
$42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By
$50 3D Printed Hand - Slashdot
fluffypony: last year in Japan a 221Kg bluefin sold for
$1.8 million
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under
$300 before June
fluffypony: which doesn't translate into clicks, and they then *learn* from that *mistake* that they should have spent the
$100k on online advertising instead
fluffypony: the expert advises on radio advertising, and they spend
$100k on radio advertising
fluffypony: it's the guy with an
$80 order that complains the loudest
fluffypony: all the guys with large orders (>
$500) are chilled, because they read the timelines during checkout, they understood how long it could take
fluffypony: book sold at Smashwords earns you about
$8.00."
fluffypony: "We work on commission. We don't charge for our ebook publishing, conversion and distribution services, and we don't sell publishing packages. We earn our commission only if we sell your book, and our commission is only 15% or less of the net, which works out to 10% of the retail price when your book sells at our retailers. For example, a
$10.00 ebook sold at one of our retail partners earns you
$6.00 and earns Smashwords
$1.00. The same
mircea_popescu: , the group could win a
$500 party, spa visit or stereo-system package. None of the pitches included a demo of the actual app."
mircea_popescu: notrly how this works. so did you lend him fiddy bux ten times and he repaid every time or did you deliver him
$5mn worth of widgets on net30 which he paid for as agreed.
ozbot: #/bin/bash -eu echo "gpg eauth
${USER}" echo ";;gpg eauth
${USER}"|xclip -i - Pastebin.com
mrstickball: when the average factory has
$15,000 in compliance costs in the US, what do you think they do?
mrstickball: for example.. if you spent
$2,000 on a mining rig in April 2013 and
$2000 on LTC, and did a buy & hold until, say... December... the rig would have returned far more
mrstickball: I also snagged a >
$50,000 order from a major US computer retailer