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nubbins`: dole is what,
$400-smth a month here?
nubbins`: plenty of
$$, why not try some coke?
nubbins`: i'd sooner interact with a dummy than with a coke-addicted dummy with
$200k of personal debt
nubbins`: there's a lesson in here about paying labourers
$70k/yr
nubbins`: hmm i bought a bunch of shit at the homebrew shop yesterday, and one of the items rang in as
$0.00
mircea_popescu: doh. so if i run a miner that has
$days_left % of total hash output, i can freely vote an infinity of coins. because whatever, i just fill a block with an endless chain of votes and i'm going to eventually mine it into a block.
nubbins`: vendor prob thought he'd get less
$ than he deserved by the time money cleared escrow
BingoBoingo: Well last time they could afford a microphone was when they sold their BTC at
$5 per and got out
punkman: tried their livestream yesterday, audio must have been recorded through
$1 microphone in someone's pocket
mod6: would change GMP_SITE =
$(BITCOIN_FOUNDATION_MIRROR)/gmp or something...
mod6: GMP_SITE =
$(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gmp
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to top
$600 before Jan 2016 :: 17.94 B (15%) on Yes, 104.78 B (85%) on No | closing in 1 week 4 days | weight: 36`910 (100`000 to 20`000) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Mc4SHV )
ben_vulpes: mitch_callahan: doctorow did a story where
$badpeople took control of a robot car to kill the protagonists
mitch_callahan: shit i was using lyft when i was there, they had a
$5 promo anywhere in the lower half of manhattan.. cant beat that.
pete_dushenski: let's do one at a time, first: taxi medallions are essentially very expensive and carefully allocated driver's permits for cabbies. this permit can run
$50k+++ in larger cities and gives the owner the right to operate a cab in that city. they're seen as an investment by the cabbies because they often appreciate in value, even to the point that they're based down from father-to-son in the way a feudal lord would'
punkman: "Over 6 months I bought about
$30,000 worth of Starbucks gift cards for about
$6,000." no shit sherlock
BingoBoingo: My impression is that Foundation pays pretty much anything that can be billed like power, conference hotels, conference food though it pointedly does not offer anyone
$x as compensation in the name of not starving.
ascii_field: i'm a bit confused.... where did the
$0.5M donated by microshit go ?
ascii_field: aha because nobody, sane or otherwise, wants to pay the
$1m/each.
ascii_field: eventually the scum do what it takes to be rid of you and take your
$tech by force
mircea_popescu: who then proceeded to a) have them read some inept turdball he DIDNT HAVE COPIES OF and b) demand
$300 from participants
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 17:01:57; pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa, the Syrian city that is now the de facto capital of the Islamic State, a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or the Office of Services, sends officials through the city markets to collect a cleaning tax — 2,500 to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about
$7 to
$14, per month depending on the size of the shop. Residents go to collection points to pay their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 S
pete_dushenski: , or roughly
$2.50 for electricity and 400 pounds, about
$1.20, for water." << in which 'westerners' salivate over such meagre state imposition
pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa, the Syrian city that is now the de facto capital of the Islamic State, a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or the Office of Services, sends officials through the city markets to collect a cleaning tax — 2,500 to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about
$7 to
$14, per month depending on the size of the shop. Residents go to collection points to pay their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 Syrian pounds
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 29-11-2015 22:51:01; pete_dushenski: "YouTube pays up to
$4 (£2.47) per 1,000 views, meaning the most popular hosts can earn a substantial sum of money." << such bullshit. i bet anything this figure is from 2009.
assbot: Logged on 29-11-2015 21:41:41; pete_dushenski: "When monetizing premature mortality using EPA-recommended data, we find a social cost of ~
$450m over the sales period. For the current fleet, we estimate that a return to compliance for all affected vehicles by the end of 2016 will avert ~130 early deaths and avoid ~
$840m in social costs compared to a counterfactual case without recall." << lulzy volkswagen emissions 'impact research'
pete_dushenski: 1000 youtube videos currently costs <
$1 to manufacture. that's a fact.
pete_dushenski: "YouTube pays up to
$4 (£2.47) per 1,000 views, meaning the most popular hosts can earn a substantial sum of money." << such bullshit. i bet anything this figure is from 2009.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "When monetizing premature mortality using EPA-recommended data, we find a social cost of ~
$450m over the sales period. For the current fleet, we estimate that a return to compliance for all affected vehicles by the end of 2016 will avert ~130 early deaths and avoid ~
$840m in social costs compared to a counterfactual case without recall." << lulzy volkswagen emissions 'impact research'
☟︎ pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: for the man who fancies himself an art investor but doesn't have
$millions to buy rodin, rembrandt, etc., i could sorta see the temptation
jurov: if
$enemy reacts to packets without recognizable structure by ddosing
ascii_field: well i won't be working with
$othercompany for much longer...
mircea_popescu: “My plan would make Wall Street banks, profitable corporations, millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes. My plan would provide living wages for working people and ensure equal pay for women,” Mr. Sanders says, ticking off his plans to raise taxes by
$1 trillion and spend it on infrastructure, guarantee free tuition at public colleges and universities, raise the minimum wage, raise Social Securit
pete_dushenski: ~
$12/day buys you top-notch domestic bodyguard in colombia. seems awfully reasonable.
pete_dushenski: "[mercs] stay largely because of the money, receiving salaries ranging from
$2,000 to
$3,000 a month, compared with approximately
$400 a month they would make in Colombia. Those troops who deploy to Yemen will receive an additional
$1,000 per week"
trinque: kakobrekla: danielpbarron: uptime | perl -ne "/(\d+) d/;print 8,q(=)x\
$1,\"D\n\""
ben_vulpes: but
$shop uses macs to deploy software on macware
mod6: /v|verbose/ should be: /^v
$|^verbose
$/
pete_dushenski: "The extent to which people in the right tail of wealth are highly educated and cognitively able was examined in a sample of 18,245 ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals with net worth's of USD
$30 million plus."
mircea_popescu: In 2014 alone, US Attorneys "forfeited"
$4.5 billion. This dollar amount now places federal law enforcement at the top of the list of of "People Who Take Stuff That Belongs To Others."
mircea_popescu: "Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to
$2tn (£1.3tn) of investors’ money in the next decade on projects left worthless by global action on climate change and the surge in clean energy, according to a new report."
assbot: Fossil fuel companies risk wasting
$2tn of investors' money, study says | Environment | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1Nsi01w )
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:39:59; mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the
$500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insani
mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the
$500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insanity it is.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "If you make it half a million you just happen to be at the cusp of what the scum perceives as "Oprah rich" and they just almost kinda go for it," << coinkidink of coinkidinks, the token insurance salesman in my choir has recently set his eyes on me and yesterday pitched me EXACTLY 500k of life insurance coverage in exchange for
$25/mo.
mircea_popescu: "De esta manera, liquidó US
$ 560 en la semana y lleva vendidos US
$ 1750 millones en lo que va del mes. Así, el proceso electoral presidencial, tomando el lapso que va desde las dos semanas previas a las PASO hasta ayer y el propósito de mantener el status quo cambiario (aunque no sea sustentable), insumió US
$ 8015 millones de las reservas."
assbot: Por la dolarización electoral, salieron US
$ 8000 millones de las reservas - 21.11.2015 - LA NACION ... (
http://bit.ly/1OnKypT )
mircea_popescu: well, the ~
$65 in box cutters the terrorists spent did bring down a 8-10bn piece of real estate.
assbot: Costco shopper who broke leg after shoving receipt checker loses lawsuit seeking
$610,000 | OregonLive.com ... (
http://bit.ly/1QWuXjF )
jurov: "In developed nations the average person would earn around 15 BW
$ a month, but it is hoped that in poorer countries where people have to walk further for work, school, or simply to collect water, the Bitwalking scheme could help transform lives."
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 23:28:24; pete_dushenski: top kek. 'radiologist' goes to 'skool' for 10 years+ of post-secondary, spends
$bezzle in tuition, and is still no better than a garbage-eating pigeon
soiled: gold's gonna go to
$10k/oz
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: loss of life 'costs' something, which is presumably fixed in this example, whereas 'value' of plane decreases over time, starting at
$115 mn and eventually ending up at whatever the scrap is worth melted down.
kakobrekla: ;;google Air Force has been forced to write off a brand new
$115million gunship
pete_dushenski: for the sake of argument, let's say that the plane will depreciate sufficiently to accommodate for loss of life. so
$115 mn lost, but info gained. or
$115 lost and no info gained.
pete_dushenski: "The [British] Air Force has been forced to write off a brand new
$115million gunship after a pilot accidentally flew it upside down, according to a report. The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship was taking part in a training mission over the Gulf of Mexico in April this year having taken off from Elgin Air Force Base, officials said. The pilot, from 413th Flight Test Squadron, was taking part in a 'sideslip' maneuver when h
pete_dushenski: top kek. 'radiologist' goes to 'skool' for 10 years+ of post-secondary, spends
$bezzle in tuition, and is still no better than a garbage-eating pigeon
☟︎ ben_vulpes: re: "ed", a nurse was over last night, lamenting the shift from "emergency room, you know, a big room with sheets, "emergency department" with individually nicely fitted out, warm rooms with room service that someone other than
$invalid is paying for"
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> "ts fields could yield
$200 million per year if those crops are sold, even at the cut rates paid on black markets. And how do you conduct airstrikes on farm fields?" << easily, call monsanto
pete_dushenski: "ts fields could yield
$200 million per year if those crops are sold, even at the cut rates paid on black markets. And how do you conduct airstrikes on farm fields?"
pete_dushenski: "Arguably the least appreciated resource for Islamic State is its fertile farms. Before even starting the engine of a single tractor, the group is believed to have grabbed as much as
$200 million in wheat from Iraqi silos alone."
jurov: btw, another funny point from
$book: lung cancer is correlated to... sugar in cigarettes