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ThickAsThieves: for example, it's not absurd to think cex.io has more than 51% right now
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mircea_popescu: cads wait, you doubting 100% of all plaintext phonecalls are being recorded ?
cads: more recently he covered something called MYSTIC, which is a system that can "record 100% of a nation's phone calls"
mircea_popescu: another 25% seems quite outlandish in my head.
cads: where 90% of the crowd would probably kill to have booth babes
cads: really I know if we just go to a trade show and knock some people unconscious with our sturdy ass prototypes, we'll come away with at least people we can talk to without 99.999% failure
ThickAsThieves: [ATC Mined] ATC Mined (to date): 13019648 Total ATC (to be mined): 268435456 % Mined of Total: 4.85
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cads: ThickAsThieves: the customer may grudgingly accept the price knowing full well they will utilize only 10% of the service bundle they're purchasing. And this is okay because it get them the play they need.
ThickAsThieves: also dont feel guilty when your flat feed is 500% more cost than work was actually needed to complete
nubbins`: something like 1% of the population of st john's is black
ThickAsThieves: nonsense, i'll sell 10% of my ATC for 6btc
pankkake: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Crocker%27s_rules
cazalla: so lose 10% to cypriot banks, lose the remaining 90% to neo?
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kakobrekla: its 99% guaranteed brass
joecool: i sold mine at 50% premium months ago and i'm seeing em go for 100% over face now :-\
tg2: <benkay> well given that 99% of 'bitcoin companies' are barely concealed scams
benkay: well given that 99% of 'bitcoin companies' are barely concealed scams, the thing doesn't fly unless you can point at a potential customer that's not a scam.
Namworld: There's already large processors offering service plus conversion plus daily bank deposit for 1% fee.
tg2: I knew somebodyw as working on a wallet-splitter where you sent to an address and it split it by a fixed % and sent back out to the other x addresses
tg2: but you'd see the house % going down
ThickAsThieves: How would this hide profits from shareholders? It would do the opposite... it would inflate the site's earnings (because 1.9% of all bets becomes site profit) and then would require that the site pay shareholders -more- than they should legitimately have.
benkay: "The steal-all-your-money rate of bitcoin businesses is running right around 100%, and you're going to lecture people that "they can only ever lose a small portion of all stored user funds"? Really?"
mike_c: they are contracted to maintain a % of ownership
mircea_popescu: no because that degrades the dividends owed on the 70% of shares not listed
mircea_popescu: this because we still hold 70% of the shares, not yet listed.
benkay: 1%
gribble: Bitcoin pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/bitcoin/>; Why MPEx is better than fiat institutions, part 930458 : we don't use ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/why-mpex-is-better-than-fiat-institutions-part-930458-we-don%E2%80%99t-use-lube/>; It working and you being competent pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/it-working- (1 more message)
gribble: Premium of BTC-E over Bitstamp is currently 0.945137618451 %.
kakobrekla: Panacea perf for March: +0.26%
Mats_cd03: it has something about n numbers of holders having xx% of the holdings
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antephialtic: I'd rather have a forum for the 20% of competent people using bitcoin, than a wasteland for those unwilling or uncapable of learning
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mircea_popescu: try and make a farm selling milk at cost +15% in say california.
the20year2: Median supermarket margins in the US are 15%
mircea_popescu: that's a 95% margin for the supermarket.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, independent romanian farmers sell 5% milk for 0.5 lei, and 1.5% milk is on sale in the supermarkets for... 6 lei.
ThickAsThieves: when i read the forums i cant help but think some % is accepting these people as reality
mircea_popescu: i don't see anything substantially wrong with your 1.4%
ThickAsThieves: Public investors currently hold 5,042,638 LMB Holdings shares (31.5164875% of the profits), whilst LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK) shall hold 10,957,362 shares 68.4835125% of the profits), for a total of 16,000,000 LMB Holdings virtual shares, which represent 100% of the global profits of the LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK)."
antephialtic: since 99% of their accounts were denominated in euros, they were hugely exposed to the price of BTC
asciilifeform: pankkake: show a 100% passive cooled machine that isn't a toy
mircea_popescu: nubbins` shocking how that 50% thing works innit.
mircea_popescu: mwashaka so they say they bought some bitfury chips and sorta-kinda pay out about 50% of whatever "investors" invest
the20year2: Not for one with only 6 properties and less than $500k of properties, that's 5% a year in just audits
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mircea_popescu: on average i paid if memory serves ~31% or so.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, if you're curious : the last time i bought ads, cca 2006, i simply crossed out anyone who wasn't willing to go UNDER 50% of list price, and just negotiated with everyone else.
ThickAsThieves: Estimated Next Difficulty:6,029,609,483 (+20.43%)
xdotcomm_: 99% online relationship
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nubbins`: but that's 28.x% for free
mircea_popescu: the figures seem to be 68.4x% and 40%.
ThickAsThieves: only the 31% wouldve been eligible for the initial divs
mircea_popescu: Public investors will hold 9,600,000 LMB Holdings shares (60% of the profits), whilst LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK) shall hold 6,400,000 shares (40% of the profits), for a total of 16,000,000 LMB Holdings virtual shares, which represent 100% of the global profits of the LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK).
mircea_popescu: Public investors currently hold 5,042,638 LMB Holdings shares (31.5164875% of the profits), whilst LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK) shall hold 10,957,362 shares 68.4835125% of the profits), for a total of 16,000,000 LMB Holdings virtual shares, which represent 100% of the global profits of the LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK).
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> so apparently lmb gifted itself a hefty 28% equity stake post-ipo /// To my knowledge LMB never gifted itself anything nor moved shares to Havelock
mircea_popescu: so apparently lmb gifted itself a hefty 28% equity stake post-ipo ?
dexX7: the "next diff" algorithm is only a simple linear projection (hashrate-now/hashrate-last = hashrate-increase%) and bitcoinwisdom uses something more sophisticated ☟︎
TestingUnoDosTre: how come the expected change is 16,3% when bitcoinwisdom projects 21%
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Namworld: Current odds of getting 100% back: 0.001% or so, odds provided by Ass-Pullouts®
cads: since then citizens have had their identities forged, the value of the AUR has dropped like 75% and now people are saying AUR is being hit by a 51% attack
mircea_popescu: it's ~85% romanian, some hungarian, trace other dozen or so elements
asciilifeform: of course, i post so rarely that perhaps 90% of it is not only in 'google cache' but 'archive.org'
jurov: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/raharnett/Armor/1%20to%201%20Armored%20ladies/Best%20of%20Fantaghiro%20550%20wide/m_m_Fantaghiro154_kl.jpg avoided
mircea_popescu: ahh, remember the days when am was derping about "having 30% of all hashing for a year"
ozbot: Meet the manic miner who wants to mint 10% of all new bitcoins | Ars Technica
MisterE: there was just the article in Ars abotu the guy who controls ~10% of hash rate
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tg2: 35% of systems have discrete gpu
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mike_c: a random 50% pop after this new PO is announced..
mircea_popescu: No 45 (57%)
mircea_popescu: Question:Would you send money or bitcoins to MtGox when it re-opens? (Voting closed: March 27, 2014, 03:11:32 PM) Yes 34 (43%)
asciilifeform: reversed 100%.
mike_c: i get cloudflare errors 75% of the time i try to go to havelock.
mircea_popescu: possibly butthurt over having shed 50% over a week and well... yet another one of those great "half your money in half a year" glbse-style things.
tg2: storage:/storage 307T 252T 56T 82% /storage
chetty: 95%
Mats_cd03: if that was imposed, people dying of negligent discharges would drop 90%
Mats_cd03: some of you might find it useful http://www.forex-warez.com/Trading%20Books/Paul%20Wilmott%20-%20FAQ%20in%20Quantitative%20Finance/Paul%20Wilmott%20-%20FAQ%20in%20Quantitative%20Finance.pdf
mircea_popescu: bocobit i read a study that 80% of studies are pure bullshit.
bocobit: or maybe even more powerful, what makes the 80%
bocobit: which makes you think, am i part of that 20%
bocobit: i read a study that says only 20% of people are capable of independent thought
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that's funny, because 99.999% of published researchers live off grants given by the people who want global warming to be a rthing.
MisterE: I cant google up just what % of purchases at large retailers are made with cc
MisterE: still MP that is 55% of small businesses. when I said not taking visa would be a death sentence I was talking about large retailers like Walmart or Safeway. I'm sure CC acceptance and usage is much higher there and it would be a death sentence for them.
mircea_popescu: of which total visa is maybe 20%
noCHINA: Visa should just drop teh minimum per-swipe charge and go straight %. they'd make more
mircea_popescu: 55% means, of course, a majority.
mircea_popescu: MisterE perhaps 90% of statistics are made up on the spot.
MisterE: and thats how 90% of America shops
pankkake: meanwhile ATC up 50%
ThickAsThieves: Estimated Next Difficulty:6,034,851,237 (+20.53%)
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