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Namworld: Hmm, I'm looking at penalties for late tax filling. Looks like the interest charged is low. Up to a maximum of 50
% flat penalty for multiple years of late filling plus 5-6
% annual interest on balance.
fluffypony: kakobrekla: just checked, and you're 100
% right - I'd misread an earlier issue with someone trying to ;;bcauth and gribble complaining about them not being registered, I thought they were trying to ;;bcregister
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd be surprised if 10
% of us gdp is independent atm. it'd be mostly things like that cattle rancher guy.
fluffypony: and gave him 51
% of the company to sign some documents
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but how much of the caught fish is caught by their little tug boats, as a
% ?
kakobrekla: yeah well 99
% or so of all species ever existed are gone
decimation: mircea_popescu: "anyway, this constant tendency to abstract people out of life is a sickness by now." << I suspect as least 90
% of USG spending is put toward programs who have the goal of treating people as if they were automatons
benkay: plus also lets ignore that the base measure is +/- 20
% iirc, cuz what's research anyways when you're chasing provocative headlines.
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.
fluffypony: bounce: 100
% - I wasn't arguing for or against it, although I do think that the best non-AML route will always be otc/face to face
MrWDunne: 100
% uptime since it was created
MrWDunne: Jurov: unfortunately that is every UK bank. 3
% is every bank though. That is the currency conversion discrepancy
jurov: wut "SEPA incurs a 3
% hidden cost + £15"? I wouldn't touch such scumbag banks with dry pole
MrWDunne: SEPA incurs a 3
% hidden cost + £15. Also in the UK it doesn't normally take a day for a SEPA, more like 3.
decimation: presuming that only
%46 of Americans can qualify for a mortgage, it seems likely that a subset of that
%46 will end up owning
%100 of the homes
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.)
mircea_popescu: is wasy for a Punic speaker to progressively become an Arabic speaker, since he already knows 80-90
% of the vocabulary.
Naphex: the roughly, and average chitchat, is if bitcoin values moves, you might have less then that 10
% of the value on the card. until it readjusts
Naphex: so.. customer stores btc, credit 10
% of btc value to corporate issued mastercard, use spends it. hold the btc
Naphex: "Casares explained that Xapo added the product due to demand from current customers who have wanted a way to spend the roughly 10
% of their funds (on average) they keep in the company’s hot wallets. The remainder is stored securely in cold storage."
HeySteve: I ain't 100
% sure myself but basically decentralised interwebs
mircea_popescu: you get a 10
% cut of the results, report your trades monthly.
fluffypony: there was a rental agency that had this awesome comm structure - find a tenant and you get half of their management fee for the lifetime of the tenant (they charge ~10
% of the rent as a management fee)
mircea_popescu: item sells for 10k, profit is 1k, make 1
% of net sales or 10
% of net profit, same deal, you make 100 bux per item
mircea_popescu: so i guess it's just an arbitrary different comission
% CheckDavid: Like. X
% of the profit generated from my sale
fluffypony: HeySteve: it depends on what electronics...typically for PC components it's just 14
% VAT and a release fee (R15 - R30)
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mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> they got about 80
% done with varioud Neo projects and were never fully paid <<< unless some greenhorn makes the mistake of "buying it", in which case the 80
% turns into... nothing at all.
ThickAsThieves: they got about 80
% done with varioud Neo projects and were never fully paid
fluffypony: benkay: no - the GearTribe Group, has a 5
% stake in OpenRigs
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BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: Whatever local paper it is quarentined to will piss off the 95
% of bettors not there
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."
ThickAsThieves: required they no longer take a
% of the company for themselves as a requirement to presenters
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mircea_popescu: currently it works like so : if your bet makes it on bitbet after the bet is closed, it goes to dividends. if your bet makes it before it's closed but after an arbitrary time selected by bitbet mods, you get it back minus 1
% fluffypony: " 75
% of the total number of all Dogecoins are held by 0.75
% of investors AND this inequity has been INCREASING"
jborkl: .uncyc.org
%252Fwiki
%252FSeptember
%3B150
%3B151
fluffypony: although probably 95
% of my mails aren't encrypted or gpg signed because that would require educating all recipients on how to decrypt them
mircea_popescu: which is an economy in which the government accounts for 1
% or less of the gdp
Naphex: but we run 0
% comission soooo :)
fluffypony: eg. for every referred customer you get 2
% of their fees forever
mircea_popescu: so i say to these people : each day you only do good deeds, you will receive your average yearly income. but for every bad deed you do, you get fined x
% of that.
mircea_popescu: i mean i guess the idea is that bitcoiners are so fucking rich and clueless that they have no idea what's what, so they may throw 100k btc on something worth 1
% of that.
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."
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mircea_popescu: to not even get in the advanced topics of how 50
%+1 of crypto-related specs are broken by design anyway. what sort of argument is this, that package x is bad because it allows user to do something some rfc says should not be done ? blergh.
Diablo-D3: 99.9
% of shit will break if char is not 8 bit, short is not 16 bit, and int is not 32 bit
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cgcardona_: is argentina 100
% for sure the locations (as 100
% as anything can be of course)
turbo_ac100: Problem is they won't be 100
% XP anytime soon so it won't even be good enough for most people.
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mircea_popescu: the rent becomes 90
% of all your expenditure, and wd! you've created a new us.
kakobrekla: 03:39.19 ( +mircea_popescu ) ".6 for the shares I bought at .6 or higher. I have all the other shares, some were bought at .1 or so. I got 80
% back and saved me a few years of courts and whatever (and he saved 20 years in jail). " this crap makes exactly 0 sense. < it doesnt need to make sense, goat is an idiot but garr is bigger one. it is possible he bluff pressed it.
mircea_popescu: ".6 for the shares I bought at .6 or higher. I have all the other shares, some were bought at .1 or so. I got 80
% back and saved me a few years of courts and whatever (and he saved 20 years in jail). " this crap makes exactly 0 sense.
fluffypony: it was fun, and I enjoyed the food/booze there significantly more than like 95
% of the restaurants/takeout places I was hauled off to in St. Louis
fluffypony: of course, because it's the cheapest, like 70
% of the people went for it
mircea_popescu: fucking hell, btc went up 10x over this year, avg bet went up 10
% 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
ozbot: [BitFunder] Graet.Loan - Paying 0.05
% interest daily
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