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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
 mircea_popescu: the latter is how ambitious if incompetent lawyers lose 90
% of the cases they lose.
 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: 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.
  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!
 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!
 ☟︎ mircea_popescu: on the planet where the guy he bought it from paid 15
% what it cost in 2014
 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
 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..
 jurov: you can't cast the 80
% there receiver yourself?
 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: my echochamber saturation is nearing 100
% but not yet there ;)
 shinohai: Steem took a nosedive since news of hackz, down -14.96 
% 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.
 mats: ~40
% according to some
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 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
  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
 ☝︎☟︎ 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.
 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
 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.)
 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: 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
 mircea_popescu: so you can buy 15 houses as a teacher fgor 50
% off over your career ?
 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