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mircea_popescu: fucking training sargents don't pass. then people wonder why it takes 3mn rounds/kill. 99% it's not the fucking hardware
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, i would say i rely on a very specific sort of literacy. i have people do things for me! you lot, all of you, are the modern equivalent of a barony that is neverthelss being run by the ox-baron personally, by hand. because in the future we have this strange species of ox-man that "can". of sorts, really, only 80% of the can, but hey, who cares about broken fingers and other appednages as a result. HEAR THE OXM
ben_vulpes: 85%+ of it on dedicated bike routes
mircea_popescu: the latter is how ambitious if incompetent lawyers lose 90% of the cases they lose.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: used by pretty much 100% of reversers, auditors, etc. for whatever cpu ever manufactured.
asciilifeform: '“I vote Trump! free Internet”. Approximately 1.6 Gb's of data was exposed, with the report stating that 68.3% of users had their identities or other sensitive information exposed upon connection. Nearly 25% of the users browsed porn sites, while only a little over 5% used the connections to play Pokemon Go' << such brilliance!111
mircea_popescu: mats 40% tax on 10.5 dollars an hour 8 hours a day for a year's workdays
mircea_popescu: you'll get a shocking 40%ish which happens to also be correct.
a111: 15 results for "new york death ray", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=new%20york%20death%20ray
asciilifeform: and yet this is what we have on 100% of planet.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:45 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506249 << 20 year only takes us to 96, which isn't really that far behind. i'd wager about 50% of c code currently doing anything useful was written in the 90s.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506555 << this is not only accurate, but it is closer to 90% in my experience than 50. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506249 << 20 year only takes us to 96, which isn't really that far behind. i'd wager about 50% of c code currently doing anything useful was written in the 90s. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 19:15 pete_dushenski: "“I am looking to weed out police and crazies,” she said. She estimates that only one in four potential customers ultimately passes. Those who do win some time with a professional escort/dominatrix, but it comes at a hefty price: Each hour can cost up to $800, and Rita’s cut is 30%." << steep!
a111: 3 results for "great slow kings", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=great%20slow%20kings
asciilifeform: i did wonder, as a boy, reading about such, what did these folks have instead of brains, that their answer to 'pirates sink 20%' was 'put Moar Silver on MEGA-BOAT'
asciilifeform: ~80% glue-with-c code by weight
a111: 18 results for "from:asciilifeform haskell", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Aasciilifeform%20haskell
pete_dushenski: "“I am looking to weed out police and crazies,” she said. She estimates that only one in four potential customers ultimately passes. Those who do win some time with a professional escort/dominatrix, but it comes at a hefty price: Each hour can cost up to $800, and Rita’s cut is 30%." << steep! ☟︎
mats: looks like i read the old ver of the doc. see https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=zXtrctoj6zH7oNEOO6De6g%3D%3D&desc=594280%20D02%20U-NII%20Device%20Security%20v01r03&tracking_number=39498 for the new one if you wanna read
a111: 3 results for "Der Giftpilz", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=Der%20Giftpilz
a111: 1 results for "der giftpilz", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=der%20giftpilz
asciilifeform: incidentally i've learned that many folks in american east coast live in boats, but do it 100% in the marina. as a kind of enforced-whiteness trailer park.
mircea_popescu: on the planet where the guy he bought it from paid 15% what it cost in 2014
asciilifeform: picture mircea_popescu were asked to design a bridge. 'just part 50% of the moon's mass right ~here~...'
mircea_popescu: but the % varies - at the heyday of the empire, during trajan, burebista's 200+ tons of gold were not enough ; centuries later, a few % of that sufficed for an entire dynasty of paleologai
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505780 <<< the answer is also obvious enough. a PERCENTAGE of the total money calculated on the basis of integration. these days, 50%, hence the bitcoin mining process. ☝︎
a111: 1 results for "man can live and never be found", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=man%20can%20live%20and%20never%20be%20found
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've not yet succeeded in setting up a 100% de-drepperized openbsd.
Framedragger: effective_cache_size e.g. could be set to 75% of total system memory. otherwise - don't want to presume - but it may end up paging the fuck out out of the disk. or other things..
asciilifeform: problem is, phuctor unfortunately cannot be made 100% static
asciilifeform: (uses about 3-5% of ram)
a111: 11 results for "ssh-rsa key from", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=ssh-rsa%20key%20from
jurov: you can't cast the 80% there receiver yourself?
asciilifeform: and, interestingly, won't even make the 'receiver' from aluminum billet, you need a '80% complete' one
a111: 1 results for "http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/51", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fseclists.org%2Ffulldisclosure%2F2016%2FJul%2F51
a111: Logged on 2016-07-17 21:19 Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504260 << this i can relate to 100%. the fact that there is any lag between me clicking on button and the button responding is an unending, continuous insult to my face. 3bn cycles down the drain
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504260 << this i can relate to 100%. the fact that there is any lag between me clicking on button and the button responding is an unending, continuous insult to my face. 3bn cycles down the drain ☝︎☟︎
a111: 80 results for "fits in head", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=fits%20in%20head
asciilifeform: contemplated strictly here. and nowhere else. because, while various folks made noises about 'throw away openssl', 100% of heathens are dead-set on re-creating the very same culture that resulted in it.
Framedragger: my echochamber saturation is nearing 100% but not yet there ;)
a111: 132 results for "from:maqp", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Amaqp
mircea_popescu: 98%
shinohai: Steem took a nosedive since news of hackz, down -14.96 %
deedbot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_Qi << Consort Qi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-demonization-of-empress-wu-20743091/ << The Demonization of Empress Wu | History | Smithsonian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_L%C3%BC_Zhi << Empress Lü Zhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: "how much would you pay me for information that prevents destruction of $1mn worth of materiel ?" us army : "3% of total damage as evaluated by us" ru army, in general "150% of maximal damage" and on the day before invasion, up to 1mn% of same.
asciilifeform: it is 5% faster, big fat fucking deal
a111: 19 results for "from:asciilifeform cribbed", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Aasciilifeform%20cribbed
mats: ~40% according to some
a111: 3 results for "\"megaprocessor\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22megaprocessor%22
mod6: %p trb 12
mod6: %p trb 12
mod6: %e trb 12 F "Makefiles for building full orchastra" "http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502667" ☝︎
mod6: %p trb 12
tb0t: <%a|%add> <project> <code> "<subject>" "<notes>" [ante] | <%e|%edit> <project> <id> <code> "<subject>" "<notes>" [ante] | <%r|%remove> <project> <id> | <%p|%print> <project> <id> | <%pp|%print_projects> | <%pc|%print_codes>
mod6: %h
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 16:12 mircea_popescu: 90% of it goes into "getting a guy there to do it" and 1% or so into "cartridge price tag"
mircea_popescu: 90% of it goes into "getting a guy there to do it" and 1% or so into "cartridge price tag" ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 04:47 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502308 << to put numbers on this : as it recently came out in debate with alf, diesel generators get ~40% efficiency if large enough (closer to my guess than yours! ha-HA!) ; depending on the coil design the resulting electricity will be transferred to projectile somewhere around 1 to 5% efficiency. to go higher air-cored assemblages are excluded because of the high reluctance of the damned
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502353 << efficiency has 0 to do with it! calculate, for lulz, the efficiency of making gunpowder and then launching a projectile with it. (it is in single-digit %, at best.) big fat whoop that the gunpowder-making happens on land. the real reason for railgun is illustrated by the failure of the german Hochdruckpumpe cannon. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: oh and the caper : obviously the coil is a lc oscillator. the remainder 95 to 99% energy doesn't simply disappear. it COMES BACK in the circuit. going... the other way.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502308 << to put numbers on this : as it recently came out in debate with alf, diesel generators get ~40% efficiency if large enough (closer to my guess than yours! ha-HA!) ; depending on the coil design the resulting electricity will be transferred to projectile somewhere around 1 to 5% efficiency. to go higher air-cored assemblages are excluded because of the high reluctance of the damned ☝︎☟︎
thestringpuller: ^- http://freedomforallseasons.org/AllodialLandPatentReports/DO%20YOU%20HAVE%20ALLODIAL%20TITLE%20ON%20YOUR%20PROPERTY_html.htm << hey he's selling a book for 40 bucks
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 15:45 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1501925 << vodka blows ; you want tuica. plum distillate, not fucking grainz. and 52% not fucking 70 proof wtf is that bs.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1501925 << vodka blows ; you want tuica. plum distillate, not fucking grainz. and 52% not fucking 70 proof wtf is that bs. ☝︎☟︎
trinque: hell I'll make it 9%, undercut those other gods
trinque: I am happy to be the God of any that require one. Please send your 10% tithe to deedbot's address.
asciilifeform: every lab i worked in, the chief spent ~90% of his time, doing guess what ?
asciilifeform: 'big machine physics' is 100% usgola.
BingoBoingo: Related the seekrit is out https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/4s1279/pok%C3%A9mon_go/
mircea_popescu: that's fucking it, 99.x% of the whole shebang and the rest consists of typographical errors.
mod6: my blueberries haven't grown very much in the last year or two tho. they're only like 1' high. so... maybe some day? i might have them in a bad place though. about 50% shade.
mircea_popescu: a more decent 5-10% sort of fee vs subsidy composition.
PumpBTC: dao has like 95% of it issuance with 5 people
shinohai: fuckin dao up 19.22%
mircea_popescu: demography doth not lie. be the 11-12% minority, get murdered. it's really that simple.
mircea_popescu: wikipedia has a meagre dozen, ie, abour 2%. "paginas amarillas" like 9. buenosaires.gob.ar a derpy page with large fonts and nice graphics, nothing useful. (in line with the entire government here, they're basically made by apple, 0 substance, harsh colors, foot tall fonts. smartphone sites.)
asciilifeform: where you have to match to 0.1% or whatever.
asciilifeform: so the search for mythical '100% reliable' mine is a distration. and a useful one, because it keeps usg from deploying the thing.
asciilifeform: so stalin loses 5% of men on his own cryptofield, but hitler loses 95.
asciilifeform: so crypto mine has 5% chance of not hearing disarm signal. so wat.
asciilifeform: they, however, WILL work, for a medieval-style 'no you are not precious snowflake and guess what, your grenade during training has 5% chance of killing you and stfu' army.
asciilifeform: the main difficulty is, in getting the mechanism to be 100% reliable.
a111: 5 results for "brin the elder", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=brin%20the%20elder
asciilifeform: 'One thing a lot of pro-fork people don't realize is that they're basically encouraging a very damaging form of speculation on the value of ETH. Because a hard fork promises to return ETH at a rate of < 100 DAO per ETH, it encourages people to buy up large amounts of DAO tokens at their current rates (> 100 DAO per ETH), and then actively advocate for the fork to happen. Last time I checked, this guarantees them a profit of > 30% (in
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 12:57 mircea_popescu: o hey look at that, ethereum actually up 2.5%.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 06:09 mircea_popescu: also re tiny : ro is 15% of ru or somesuch ; ru is 35% or so of eu or somesuch. tiny country is monaco, diff story. otherwise, germany's a third of brazil and saudi arabia a 15% of pakistan naimean ?
mircea_popescu lolz at the shitcoins. bitcoin cap 10bn, yest trade 1/4 bn (2.5%) ; ethereum "cap" 800mn, yest trade 11mn (1.2%) ; ripple "cap" 250mn (hey, recall when it was 1bn+, above ethereum ?), yest trade 500k (0.2%).
mircea_popescu: o hey look at that, ethereum actually up 2.5%. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: also re tiny : ro is 15% of ru or somesuch ; ru is 35% or so of eu or somesuch. tiny country is monaco, diff story. otherwise, germany's a third of brazil and saudi arabia a 15% of pakistan naimean ? ☟︎
pete_dushenski: in other titties, bitbet2 is finally ratcheting up their fee to 2% come august
mircea_popescu: twenty years and 10% or more civillian casualties. THEN you'll see the difference
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/%d1%82%d0%be%d1%88%d0%bd%d0%be/#comment-117977
deedbot: [Trilema] тошно - http://trilema.com/2016/%d1%82%d0%be%d1%88%d0%bd%d0%be/
a111: 2 results for "leather seats", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=leather%20seats
ben_vulpes: breaks 95% of the time.
mircea_popescu: so you can buy 15 houses as a teacher fgor 50% off over your career ?
asciilifeform: 'Law enforcement officers, pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade teachers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can contribute to community revitalization while becoming homeowners through HUD's Good Neighbor Next Door Sales Program. HUD offers a substantial incentive in the form of a discount of 50% from the list price of the home. In return you must commit to live in the property for 36 months as your sole residence.'
asciilifeform: i have pet stationed 100% there
mircea_popescu: so, should an article have "3 votes, 81% upvoted", x = 3*19/62 = ~1. therefore of the total 5 votes, one was against