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trinque: potter county went 71.6
% Romney, and that guy was half-dead
mircea_popescu: they should just s/united states of america/the country of 5
%/ and be done with it
mircea_popescu: a figure which strangely mimics the way publishign works otherwise. what
% of the sale value of books ends up with the authors ? what
% of cd sales end up with the studios, let alone the artists ?
mircea_popescu: ie, the zsa zsa gabors of a new generation, the 1
% of media whores who married well and are now held up before the twentysomething herd as a sort of cunt frenzying fetish
mircea_popescu: Apr 19, 2016: Across all industries the average results for UK SME email marketing campaigns were: Open rate: 22.87
% (2013: 21.47
%) Click-through rate: 3.26
% (3.16
%) Unsubscription rate: 0.53
% (0.47
%)
mircea_popescu: 63
% think he raped someone at some point ; 62
% want him to be president. presumably the missing 1
% doesn't like the dearth of pics ?
mircea_popescu: oh : and soy is down in chicago, and is trending down, and the chinese announced they're dropping 20
% of maize to plant more soy in mainland china.
mircea_popescu: and in other news nobody gives a shit about : the argentine govt announced an "amnesty" whereby idiots with cash in strongboxes/matresses etc can "blanquear" it, by depositing it in a bank and paying 11
% in tax ("to begin with"). same applies to foreign holdings.
mircea_popescu is pretty happy at all this "oh noes, trump won't promise to admit defeat if he loses", because all signals point to a complete rehash of the brexit thing, whereby clinton is credited with ~50
% of popular vote and 55
% of electoral colege, but realises 35
% of popular vote and 30
% of electoral college.
mircea_popescu: subjective value, as judged by you ? it doesn't. objective value, as in, the ship of state is being sailed by idiots into the shoals ? 100
%.
mircea_popescu: otherwise in mosul, the fight is now supposed to take two months, a 50
% upgrade, and from the locals “The Iraqi army arrived yesterday and took the town, and today Isis came back and the army ran away. We weren’t expecting this.”
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, kurdish zone population swelled 30
% in the past year, all civil servants and pashmerga salaries are in arears, and oil prices stay low.
mircea_popescu: alright. i shall employ this to accelerate 10 gram pellets ; at the usual loss of 99.99
% i will then have available 10kW for my pellets.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes of the total energy available to the projectile, some
% is given at launch and some
% is given in flight. if you got a bullet (100-0) ballistics dun work. if you got a missile (0-100) ballistics work
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we're not discussing the aspie 14
% fantasy here. usg dun got no money nor any workers.
trinque: I went searching for a link on the subj and every rag says "we grow (inflate) at x
% per year! we'll have infinity funbux by then!"
mats: i wonder what kinda premiums (50
%?) lloyds is imposing for war risk insurance after all this business
mats: 538 moved its prediction up to 86
% clinton victory
mats: "Milo: ‘100
% Of Fat People Are F**ing Gross’ ... Speaking in full drag to an audience of cheering conservative students, Milo explained why fatties need to put down the Bic Macs."
mircea_popescu: so his theory is 48 to 44
% in popular vote but 318 to 219 in electoral votes. should be funny to see how this plays out
mats: nate silver (of 'fivethirtyeight' fame) believes hrc has 79.9
% chance of winning
mircea_popescu: anyway, he apparently killed it with that debate, got a 15
% surge in support.
mircea_popescu: "Around 81 percent of American households, according to a recent McKinsey study, experienced flat or falling incomes between 2005 and 2014." << in NOMINAL terms. with > 15
% inflation per annum this means that 81
% of the people who were employed in 2005 make ABOUT A QUARTER today of what trhey made back then.
mircea_popescu: Known Moduli: 4391213 Moduli with Obvious Brain-Damage: 460906 ie more than 10
% ffs.
shinohai: I loll'd at his tweet earlier this morning, so ecstatic that they have 1
% of all mining power on their phork
trinque:
% echo foobar | ./rhash --sha3-256 -
thestringpuller: Or at least that's how it's been playing out given the fact 50
% of all women there are pregnant at any given time.
adlai: Estimated Next Difficulty: 260,022,823,582 (+7.79
%)
mircea_popescu: on the web they become i
%20am
%20a
%20windows
%20fucktard.docx or such. because willy-nilly space is a thing.
mod6: putting in the changes "!
%" may have broke something. I did them pretty quick. I didn't do a ton of testing because of other, more important work.
pete_dushenski: awww gs is laying off 30
% of their asian division because m&a's are down by a similar proportion. must suck to run out of tax loopholes.