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mircea_popescu: "Why four
$800 monitors ? Mostly because I’m not a poorfag" << - >> <asciilifeform> ;;later tell pete_dushenski you ~do~ realize you bought the 'poorfag' non-'colouredge' or 'radiforce' eizos, right ? << lol i'm sure he'll be thrilled to hear.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 19-01-2016 02:06:58; ben_vulpes: (hey, it's a bank holiday. half the staph even bothered to show up, and those left as soon as they fixed the fucked up builds they shipped on friday, leaving me and
$bzprtnr alone with the tequila and org chart)
ben_vulpes: (hey, it's a bank holiday. half the staph even bothered to show up, and those left as soon as they fixed the fucked up builds they shipped on friday, leaving me and
$bzprtnr alone with the tequila and org chart)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: one hour of employee time, admitting you get paid
$100, costs your employer ~250 or so.
ben_vulpes: "why gentoo?" asked
$bzprtner, "is that the best linux thing around for working on mega-c projects?" "no, it's simply the least-worst and has a snowflake's chance of working"
punkman: mod6, here's my version: diff -uNr
$1
$2 | awk 'm = /^(---|\+\+\+)/{s="sha512sum \""
$2 "\" 2>/dev/null " | getline x; if (s) { split(x, a, " "); o = a[1]; } else {o = "false";} print
$1 " "
$2 " " o} !m { print
$0 }'
ben_vulpes: sorry,
$client left many bottles of homemade kahlua at the office
ben_vulpes: one of those interesting
$50 now or
$2500 in three week problems i can solve due to hilariously checkered background
ben_vulpes at office, fixing fancy couch
$bzprtnr bought a year ago
BingoBoingo: Was just at walmart and saw a few for
$10 a pop.
ben_vulpes: even
$robofab i worked for one time had their castings done by a casting company.
jurov: and i'm no mircea_popescu to get execution on my projects for
$0.1/hr :(
jurov: ascii_shmoocon i did offer you to become a contractor to my company, paid by
$$$, you recoiled in horror
jurov: how much
$$$ you need monthly?
jurov: yes. mircea decides that washing silicon or eulora art ought to be done for
$.1 per hour and universe obliges
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 05:52:12; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-01-2016#1371076 << i just remembered that 'international' made pretty much exactly this house-towing, sidewalk-shredding, lamppost-buckling "pick-up" from 2004 - 2008. called the 'cxt' and priced right at
$100k. though it weighed 7 tonnes (15k lbs), it had a 7.6l diesel engine with 220hp and 540 lb. ft. of torque and was capable of hauling or towing up to 6 tonn
punkman: "Augur has also contributed
$20,000 to an R&D project to transition the Ethereum network from a proof of work (POW) to a proof of stake (POS) system so it can operate at higher speeds, handle more transactions and thereby become more competitive"
punkman: "Augur hedged a significant portion of its holdings (13,500 BTC). Via itBit, Augur sold at an average of US
$227 per BTC with
$10/coin borrowing cost, netting the Project
$217 per BTC." geniuses
op_null2: cazalla:
$9 million in Augur from thousands of users. They'll use it.
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-01-2016#1371076 << i just remembered that 'international' made pretty much exactly this house-towing, sidewalk-shredding, lamppost-buckling "pick-up" from 2004 - 2008. called the 'cxt' and priced right at
$100k. though it weighed 7 tonnes (15k lbs), it had a 7.6l diesel engine with 220hp and 540 lb. ft. of torque and was capable of hauling or towing up to 6 tonness
☝︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 15-01-2016 15:04:10; pete_dushenski: "The deal comes weeks after GE walked away from a deal to sell the business to Sweden's Electrolux for
$3.3 billion, following months of opposition from U.S. antitrust regulators." << "we chineese, we no kaya hao much amewikan beezneez cost. we want buy nao !"
pete_dushenski: "For Haier, the deal means ownership of a century-old appliance business that makes refrigerators, freezers, clothes washers and dryers across brands such as Monogram, Café, Profile and Artistry. The business trails only Whirlpool Corp in the U.S. white goods market and reported revenue of
$5.9 billion last year." << mega-non-core.
pete_dushenski: "The deal comes weeks after GE walked away from a deal to sell the business to Sweden's Electrolux for
$3.3 billion, following months of opposition from U.S. antitrust regulators." << "we chineese, we no kaya hao much amewikan beezneez cost. we want buy nao !"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "General Electric Co said it would sell its appliance business to China's Haier Group for
$5.4 billion in cash, another step in its push to sell its non-core assets and project itself as a technology company." << here's where the chinese money is going.
pete_dushenski: "Dow briefly plunges 400 points after data, oil rout" << looks like it's 'sell the farm' day. wti under
$30 too.
mircea_popescu: there clearly exists a market for
$100k cars, and this wouldn't take that to make.
jurov: not a biggie to send it back, even slap the
http header to raw text (text/plain;charset="
$charset")
mircea_popescu: it's some old dude apparently living in costa rica (which he invented), telling the world truths in centered lines. "Yes, in case you didn't know it Facebook is a HUGE Blogging Platform and it earns Facebook Billions of Dollars !In fact Facebook generated
$217.00 every second, 24hrs a day during 2013. And they Earned that money from You Blogging!"
thestringpuller: Atomicat: he value of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange has been falling after reaching a high nearly
$4 million in 2005 to a value arounf
$2.5 million today. << Significantly cheaper than a seat at the NYSE
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 15:24:47; thestringpuller: DerpUnion: bitcoin mining is a black hole, as in you'll never get the BTC out you put into miners unless you can do some voodoo. Even if electricity cost was 0, you'd still have trouble paying off the miners themselves unless you have direct access to
$foundry
thestringpuller: DerpUnion: bitcoin mining is a black hole, as in you'll never get the BTC out you put into miners unless you can do some voodoo. Even if electricity cost was 0, you'd still have trouble paying off the miners themselves unless you have direct access to
$foundry
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25, 1977. It earned
$461 million in the US and
$314 million overseas, totaling
$775 million. It surpassed Jaws (1975) to become the highest-grossing film of all time; its gross was later surpassed by that of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). When adjusted for inflation as of 2013" << check it out, there was inflation since the 80s ?!
mircea_popescu: "Economists do the economy as psychologists do the mind. A watershed of data is statistically manipulated. Miserably intricate deeply parameterized speculative theory is fit to data, protected from criticism by complexity. Extrapolations are made. Official predictions are absurd versus observed reality. Economists scream "heteroskedasticity!" and demand multi-
$trillion Federal bailouts. Psychologists disdain irrelevanc
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 09:04:03; copypaste: In fact, I just added it up (
$('#leftbtclist>li').size() ) - you can trade 266 shitcoins on Cryptsy.
copypaste: In fact, I just added it up (
$('#leftbtclist>li').size() ) - you can trade 266 shitcoins on Cryptsy.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:16:36; adlai: there's no a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake their reputation on pgp-signed contracts to buy up their alt after it's launch... reminscent of the
$20 XPY floor
adlai: there's no a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake their reputation on pgp-signed contracts to buy up their alt after it's launch... reminscent of the
$20 XPY floor
☟︎ punkman: "County Judge Steve Grasty says he intends to bill Ammon Bundy for
$60k to
$75k in daily county costs due to occupation."
trinque: asciilifeform: for my curiosity, if the tubes have mouths, could your patch be used by
$enemy to alter the topology of the network in ways beneficial to it?
trinque: yeah, I'm useless when sick for sufficient value of
$sick
assbot: Logged on 06-01-2016 21:57:20; pete_dushenski: girl who leases
$500/mo suv couldn't imagine justifying
$800 iph0ne, so... bought
$300 chinese thing
funkenstein_: lling these terrified people a gallon of water for
$4.00. They put them in jail for price-gouging, for selling them a gallon of water for four bucks.
funkenstein_: "The medical treatment of choice for cardio myopathy is a heart transplant, costs
$750,000. I want you to think about that. They get the heart free from a donor, they get the blood free for the surgery from the relatives. They use
$2.50 of suture material, and they charge you
$750,000 for that procedure. Now 6 months ago in LA when they had the earthquake, they were putting people in jail for 60 and 90 days for price-gouging, for se
pete_dushenski: "Someone is betting
$40,026 on the life of a 73-year-old lottery winner in Michigan. That amount was the highest bid Thursday in an online auction for a lottery prize that pays
$1,000 a month, before taxes. But here's the hitch: The money is paid only as long as Donald Magett stays alive."
mircea_popescu: our times the speed possible with any other manufacturers tape systems, and ten times faster than paper tape -- the only method available at the time for loading Micro Soft BASIC onto the Altair system. Of course, to even do that on an Altair, you had to buy a paper tape reader and an interface. Usually an ASR-33 Teletype and an SIO card. (
$$$) By contrast, Digital Group systems included a video and cassette interface
mircea_popescu: "Apologists for this kind of SJW fascism will contend that the
$250,000 fine is not mandatory and is a maximum, as if it somehow eliminates the farce of the laws’ new interpretation." << you know, consensus will enforce the lower limit.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 07:16:55; assbot: New Yorkers Can Now Be Fined
$250,000 For Not Using Loony Gender Pronouns Like “Ze” And “Hir” ... (
http://bit.ly/1ZdJMiw )
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-01-2016#1364239 << "The odds of winning are 1 in 292.2 million. So the expected value of a ticket is
$800*1/292.2=
$2.73. A ticket only costs
$2 so that’s a positive expected value purchase! We do have to make a few adjustments, however. The
$800 million is paid out over 30 years while the
$2 is paid out today."
☝︎ bitstein: ribeyes are what,
$4 USD a pound?
mircea_popescu: 3/17/98 -- Two former New York City police officers become the last of 14 NYPD officers to be convicted in a tax evasion scheme. The two sold tax evasion kits from Patriot groups to other officers for up to
$2,000 each.
punkman: "Medolac, based in Oregon and started in 2009, sells 4-ounce pouches of sterilized donor milk to hospitals for up to
$5.90 an ounce. Theirs is the only “room temperature” product currently on the market, meaning it does not need to be thawed out." << I haz business idea!!11
pete_dushenski: isn't it
$50 for a pair of vacuum-sealed panties these days ? (to prison inmates)
pete_dushenski: the chicken i buy is
$23/kg, the beef
$30/kg or so.
$12/kg for locally grown, straight from the farmer is a steal of a deal
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Sexy women dress wholesale, customize fashion lady dress FOB Price: US
$15 - 25 / Piece Port: HUANG PU PORT Min. Order: 300 Piece/Pieces"
adlai failed his arbitrage on this basis - usg-sponsor doesn't want to engage museum(s) in negotiation, but maybe
$alertLurker does
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: thought you might have, at
$rupturefarmz << Funny how Oddworld is the first result when put 'Rupture Farms' into google
shinohai: ikr I paid the extra
$12 in BTC for priority too :/
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2016 02:13:30; asciilifeform: google open sores works rather like 'here have a bag of
$$$, do whatever you like, but you can be poettering and you definitely cannot be jurov, asciilifeform, ben_vulpes'