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mircea_popescu: meanwhile they play dice for a 2
% house edge. that's okay.
mircea_popescu: i mean, even in the middle of an armed rebellion/invasion your chances to be plugged are what, 1
% ?
diametric: with a 15
% discount this weekend apparently.
benkay: i was under the impression that 2
% was an outrageous return in btc.
mircea_popescu: i'll end up making 3
% over a year and people will be o noes, such low return
ninjashogun: Apocalyptic, I am trying to understand the architectural trade-offs in the Cardano, and, specifically, why the private key MUST be stored in the plain with no mitigation against loss. (Except key revocation, if the user is aware of it). Why it has to be "fail-dangerous" and not "fail-90
% dangeorus"
ninjashogun: decimation, i.e. if it has been in adversary's hands, the result is obviously 0
% integrity. What else is the result? I identified a couple of results to asciilifeform (including threat verctor back to PC should it be replaced without the Owner's knowledge)
decimation: grad department (and profs) 80
% chinese/indian
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artifexd: Unless the bias is 100
%, in which case there is no entropy to tap so you can't get any entropy out.
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mircea_popescu: so in this sense, you're just getting 100
% dividend, except a 35
% portion of it is actually worth less
mircea_popescu: if they paid out that 35
% you could reinvest it yourself.
mircea_popescu: i have a bottle of coca cola. 35
% of what i drink goes into buying more coca cola
dnivi3: They have a reinvestment plan for the future, to increase their hashrate. 35
% of all profit goes to reinvestment for hash power.
Neil: Hmm, higher than that I think. The 16
% is looking a little close.
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nubbins`: and convinced nanotube to urlencode nicks so my rating page would display as nubbins
%60 and not break clients
ozbot: Agrimoney.com | Russian farmland selling for as low as 2
% of EU values
Namworld: Or you know, there's ~99.9
% of genes in commons between any human and the next. Maybe if you want to promote your genes and people close genetically, you should consider all humans the same and work on ensuring humans can colonize space. That would help your genes' survival. Most of them.
radan: Romanians and Bulgarians both have 70
%+ old thracian genes
radan: honey bees survive despite 75
% of them having no children
nubbins`: did i ever tell you guys about the client who insisted on "eco-friendly" (6.25
%!) garments flown in from the other side of the continent rather than choosing local garments for half the price?
mircea_popescu: people booking the traditional 50
% losses in half year.
mircea_popescu: who knew, mpex is 50
% better than the best investment in the history of venture investment.
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ThickAsThieves: In addition, every single email message you send or receive—100
% of them—is encrypted while moving internally. This ensures that your messages are safe not only when they move between you and Gmail's servers, but also as they move between Google's data centers—something we made a top priority after last summer’s revelations."
nubbins`: also FWIW if all your text is at 100
%, having a title wrapped in h1 AND setting font-size=250
% is nuts
nubbins`: something like 70
% of the employees at my last job were women
ThickAsThieves: Can't you just say, diff will not change more than 16
%, then have a close date?
nubbins`: wait, so doctor squishface lost 11
% and is bragging that it outperformed?
decimation: In 1897, there lived 345 000 Germans in Ukraine, that was 4,2
% of the population. In 1911, there were 419 000 Germans. ... In spite of it, Germans played an important part in the Ukrainian culture life. Until 1914 many professors at Ukrainian universities were Germans.
☟︎ Shakespeare: "SecondMarket Inc. is racing to open up a private bitcoin investment fund to ordinary investors as soon as the fourth quarter, potentially beating a rival offering by two investors best known for their lawsuit against Facebook Inc. FB -1.37
% chief executive Mark Zuckerberg."
Shakespeare: <benderp> Shakespeare: what was the slippage on that one? /// I dunno if it'd be fair to assess considering the volatility daily, but I think the sale started about 20
% higher than where it ended
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ninjashogun: So, the idea is that the first 500 qualified profiles (full name, highly technical with CV, and in a major market - e.g. San Francisco, New York, London) - would get a 2.5
% fully diluted equity in the company. The next 1500 profiles get 2.5
%. And the following 8000 profiles get 5
%.
ninjashogun: I think that's a very good idea, moiety, and if you targeted the chip'n'pin form factor (looks like a card) sold with a networked home reader, you could sell them as a plug-in solution to merchants. I'm not 100
% sure how card processing works, but it may be possible to piggy-back on that system and let merchants use it as though it were card, meanwhile the back-end processor (your company?) or an intermediate networked de
deadweasel: they don't accept them and less than 1
% of their biz is btc. they let Coinbase or Paybit or whatever do it
Perlboy: Yeah, i know at least one bank that has moved to 100
% Windows.
moiety: ninjashogun: yup 100
% competent huh
Perlboy: ninjashogun, 99
% of managers are a case of shit floating.
ninjashogun: moiety - fair enough. I should have been clear that I was being satirical, and not using my own definition of competent. I think basically 100
% of people are competent at what they do.
ninjashogun: Most American teachers are "incompetent". Yet America has a near 100.00
% literacy rate.
benkay: he's no troll - 100
% authentic!
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Neil: "The Fed has been targeting a 6.5
%..." Joke? Like they think they can target anything? The world gets on witih it, they sit there observing.
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Shakespeare: "The Fed has been targeting a 6.5
% unemployment rate as a gauge to start discussing when to raise interest rates. But several Fed officials have said they don’t find the jobless rate reference useful now that the rate, at 6.7
% in February, is near the 6.5
% threshold."
Neil: But given her intro, I'm sure she loved the effect that "enforcement office for the SEC" or whatever it was had on 90
% of the plebs
Neil: Signature of "Neil" with the payout addr of the 10
% bet
Neil: b.t.w. I claim full credit for the 10
% bet
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Neil: In fact I consider 20
% too safe; was gonna make it more interesting.
mircea_popescu: Neil something you said about no more diff jumps over 20
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okcjosh: will it pay off? Right now a may GHS is around 33
% the price of a live GHS. Does buying 3 times as many GHS for may have a good chance of paying out more, based on estimated Diff increase?
mircea_popescu: you have like 30
% chances to develop some types of liver cancer etc.
mircea_popescu: it may actually be genetic. about 18
% or so of the population finds various aromatic hydrocarbons... aromatic.
mircea_popescu: while by population should only be entitled to a modest 15
% mircea_popescu: what does worry me is that out of the stupidities emitted every day, said sphere leisurely owns 99.x
%