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fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes - we structured it as: I own 50
%, Peter owns 50
%, we've diluted our shareholding (equally) for the IPO. he does all the work, I operate as chairman of the board (which currently consists of me and me alone, that will change later)
mircea_popescu: Scott Skyrm If 5 years of near 0
% interest rates isn't sufficiently helping the housing market, then maybe the problem lies elsewhere
mircea_popescu: by the way, the last bond auction was a slaughter. yield ended up 3.44
% (up from issuance), and the dealers kinda smelled of panic.
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mircea_popescu: <decimation> the bigger story is that 37
% of fed retirment money is invested in a "fund" that has returned
%0.82 year-to-date. << and then we cuss out people for "investing" in glbse&co
decimation: the bigger story is that 37
% of fed retirment money is invested in a "fund" that has returned
%0.82 year-to-date.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the same government paid its own employees a full 100
% decimation: the IRS "safe harbor" rule is that as long as you "pay" your janitor 3
% in his 401k, you can offer any amount you wish to anyone else in your company
mircea_popescu: wouldn't those have been great if the farmers didn't have to pour 100
% of the milk poured,
decimation: worse, they will pay 5
% to the scammers, on the understanding that you can one day collect
decimation: like, we will pay you 5
% more if you "invest" 5
% assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 164.02224689 BTC; +0.00374863 BTC (+0.0023
%) since last check 22h 43m 27s ago.
Mats_cd03: i dont experience much (<25
%) cognitive decline after 24 hours when i temper it with provigil across the same period
fluffypony: what's the rationale behind investors getting voting rights if they cumulatively own like 10
% or 20
% of a company? doesn't that seem redundant?
mircea_popescu: can you believe, dear assets, that the ticket mafia gypped him for almost 40
% of the rent of the venue ?
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Drew: insomniac still owns the festival EDC, but live nation actually owns 50
% of insomniac now
Drew: but live nation acquired 50
% of insomniac for 50,000,000
Drew: -i-Motion - $12,000,000 - 70
% ownership
Drew: -Totem Onelove - $75,000,0000 - 100
% ownership
Drew: -MMG - 16,900,000 - 80
% ownership
Drew: -Beatport - $52,000,000 - 100
% ownership
Drew: -Dayglow - $35,000,000 - 100
% ownership
Drew: -ID&T (Tomorrowland / Tomorrowworld) - $100,000,000 - 75
% ownership
Drew: -Electric Daisy Carnival - $50,000,000 - 50
% ownership
Drew: -Disco Donnie Presents - $50,000,000 - 100
% ownership
Drew: my friend has told me that with a 1
% widespread usage, with all the BTC mined they would be 1 million USD apiece?
DrewHorne: ThickAsThieves - so if I were able to discuss ~90
% of my business plan here, but it involved fiat currency, would this not be a proper place to vet the plan?
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mircea_popescu: it's bitbet. kakobrekla can we make individual bet titles read like "BitBet - Bitcoin network difficulty > 14Bn on Bastille day. 85 btc on yes (73
%), 30 btc on no (27
%), 55 days left (33`212 weight)" instead of just bet title as is now ?
mircea_popescu: <DrewHorne> BUT the investment has a 6000
% return, looking for $1,250,000 USD in exchange for 30
% equity of a company we will sell for $250,000,000 in 5 years << this should go in my list of "stupid things one should never say"
DrewHorne: BUT the investment has a 6000
% return, looking for $1,250,000 USD in exchange for 30
% equity of a company we will sell for $250,000,000 in 5 years
mircea_popescu: <ozbot> BitBet - Bitcoin network difficulty > 14Bn on Bastille day. 85 btc on yes (73
%), 30 btc on no (27
%), 55 days left (33`212 weight).
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pankkake: and bear mccreary must be doing 80
% of tv series
mircea_popescu: sorta like how hans zimmer does like 80
% of movie soundtracks that are any good.
ThickAsThieves: even teh FF series, probablty the most popular soundtracks, i bet less than 10
% of buyers could name 1 composer
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mike_c: pankkake: just 0.1
%. i'm not greedy
jurov: not 100
% sure but it seemed that way to me
mircea_popescu: there, 70
% drop, go doublespend or w/e, show me how altcoin dies because whoa, sudden mandated diff changes.
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pankkake: mongodb is amazing in the sense that 99
% of its users do not need it, and create themselves new problems
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mircea_popescu: "Guest95361: I can say with 100
% certainty that they have them" lmao do these fuckwits even comprehend how this bitcoin thing works ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't even see how you can ponzi at 50
% a month. that is insane. << actually romanian ponzi thing did 800
% in 3 months. it paid out for a year and a half.
mircea_popescu: jurov: Death occurs in approximately 10
% of cases. << wait srsly ?!
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Guest95361: Crap, you just narrowed it down to 90
% of the UK
Guest95361: I can say with 100
% certainty that they have them
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mike_c: i don't even see how you can ponzi at 50
% a month. that is insane.
punkman: "1
% on non-trading days" lol
mike_c: making 50
% a month? panacea oughta put their money with these guys.
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jurov: Death occurs in approximately 10
% of cases.