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mircea_popescu: Investors possessing those characteristics are in a small minority, but we have an exceptional collection of them. I believe well over 90
% - probably over 95
% - of our shares are held by those who were shareholders of Berkshire or Blue Chip five years ago. And I would guess that over 95
% of our shares are held by investors for whom the holding is at least double the size of their next largest. Among companies
mircea_popescu: an0 is accepted by the exchange doing 90
%+ of all bitcoin financials.
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% in 1d 12h 40m 57s
ninjashogun: nubbins`, that's not true. I guarantee 100
% that there are people int his channel who know what vision algorithms are, and what electronics engineering and embedded programmigng are. 100
% guaranteed.
mircea_popescu: Neil no 1
% was charged (site does indicate that, but it's erroneous). the tx is 3a01762308fc1c9b36478d3bb4c3198eb69f3c29ab24af2e4520727c7fa9c79c3a01762308fc1c9b36478d3bb4c3198eb69f3c29ab24af2e4520727c7fa9c79c once it propagates you can check it.
Neil: mircea_popescu: I don't remember you taking a 1
% fee on such cancellations before on Bitbet.
ozbot: BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10
% ozbot: 3.816 billion | Next Diff in 296 blocks | Estimated Change: 9.8229
% in 1d 20h 15m 59s
KRS-One: netflix pisses me off...90
% of the titles I never heard of..9
% were from 1980 and 1
% recent/goodmovies.
mircea_popescu: "And as for the subsequent performance of that fund, if you had bothered to check, you would have found that in fact, it dropped by a total of 11.6
% from inception to final return of capital -- thereby outperforming every other comparable fund available"
mike_c: "it dropped by a total of 11.6
% from inception to final return of capital "
mike_c: i love how proud he is that he only lost 12
%.
Namworld: It's 32
% in BTC. So 1.32 x 100
peterl: psh, only 32
% that is nowhere near 100x!
mircea_popescu: -17
% on assets, -22
% on fees, half your money back in half a year.
mircea_popescu: normally i'd say "i wish to meet that elated 1
% of bitcoin financiers which actually make 2
% a year", but i think i already have.
mircea_popescu: the zinger being, of course, "Aug 15 15:49:39 <parseval>This guy is charging 2
% of assets annually plus 20
% of profits for management fees"
mircea_popescu: "In retrospect, it's quite funny how some of the folks laughed at those selling ASICMiner to buy into BTC Growth, given that at the end of the day, those who adopted exactly that strategy wound up with roughly 275
% as much money in their accounts than those who stuck with the former darling of the mining world."
peterl: from the dr. greg thread "the approach continues to offer guaranteed profit up until a roughly 350
% gain " he lost money but still thinks his strategy should have huge returns?
mircea_popescu: also TIL MPOE-PR is 1.8687
% of bitcointalk's scam accusationsboard.
moiety: building freelance platform that is 60
% complete. need 10btc benkay
cazalla: maybe the 20Gb represents 5
% of people who verified and the remaining 1Gb represents the other 95
% of people and is just username + email
mike_c: so 10 minutes before trading opens the remaining 25
% of the ipo is suddenly eaten up in one trade. please.
MisterE: canada mandates
% of TV and radio programming must be from Canadians
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dexX7: don't forget about all those "this poor guys life is scwered, people will murder him 1000
%" posts
kakobrekla: yeah, its not 100
% from them, but likely
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic yes, but not the 14
% aspirational crowd that "makes" names
nubbins`: lel, so we outsourced some printing to this company in california. 14
% of the order is missing when it arrives -- no explanation, no "we'll get the rest sent out soon", just numbers changed with a pen on the packing slip. i emailed company, they say "oh sorry -- we'll get the rest to you by march 24"
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mircea_popescu: also, i'm with Mats_cd03. asciilifeform's ideas are tailored for the 1
%. nttawwt, but kind-of dangerous if you're not in.
Mats_cd03: ill fund you if you have 7
% profit month over month for a year
chetty: 42
% said they believed a "motherboard" was "the deck of a cruise ship"
chetty: 23
% thought an "MP3" was a "Star Wars" robot
punkman1: "Our minerrigs will be avaible for rent from launch. A total of 1.6 Gh scrypt will be rentet out for 50,000 MTK/Mh/day. When your total rent pass 1000 Mh you will be the legal owner of a 5Mh rig. You can then chose to continue let us host it and get 80
% of the rentalprofit or you can get it shipped to your door"
BingoBoingo: That example I linked in the logs is poorly structured, and in sports betting the actual likely best case is a 30
%loss.
ninjashogun: e.g. rather than raise $250K via an angel investor, or $4M in a Series A, that both of these could be done 100
% via the bitcoin ecosystem?
mircea_popescu: the fact that the author eschewed the 10
% notation (which is like a symbol by now) for 1 in 10 is kind-of telling
mircea_popescu: "10
% of respondents will lie in any study" is the adage of social sciences.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's exactly 10
%, which is why i quoted it.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, your style is 100
% different from anything I've seen in my (albeit limited) interaction with business or investors. Your post quotes yourself, saying that you would not announce something publically. You post your own IRC conversation that you intend not to be public :)
BingoBoingo: Want to borrow, 5-10 BTC for gambling. Three month term, will return principle + 10
% or list of losing bets << Is this questionable and scammy enough, I also ams not auth'd
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if it comes to war and there's a general mobilisation, the us couldn't gather even ukraine's 1
% ThickAsThieves: i love how now that gox is dead, we don't get 25
% price moves after every news tidbit
punkman: "Because there is not enough BTC to cover everyone's balances, all balances will temporarily be deducted by 12.3
%."
Mats_cd03: it poops on my brain each time i recall that 99
% of GOOG profitable revenue is from ads
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In the Ganges river case I'd guess at least 15
% mircea_popescu: check that out, they only got 1
% ish respond to mobilization orders ?
BingoBoingo: And in the process teach people how to only lose 30
% pr year
mike_c: ok.. i give up. mpex turns off 70
% of its revenue, the share price goes down basically 0
%.
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benkay: 1
% of the time it's an obese whale
mircea_popescu: o... we were totally 100
% legit but we lost it all on pirate
mircea_popescu: what was that study that whatever primitive villages were 80
% the offspring of the village chieftain or something
mircea_popescu: this shit's fucking incredible. btc is about 500ish, the odds of 10k (ie, 2k
% increase) are viewed as 1:3