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pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-11-2015#1327066 << why not have price go back over $1k per container ? why have no freight industry at all after price crash and shucking off of excess capacity and firms who can't handle dumping ? ☝︎
punkman: speaking of boats, "Prices to move a 40-foot container from Rotterdam to Shanghai drop to $300"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-11-2015#1326968 << we have this pestilence. in the maths dept of $uni, there is a gigantic wall of leaflets for 'tutoring' flyers, and half of all the phd candidate folks pay their rent this way: helping victims of usa 'schooling' fail more slowly ☝︎
asciilifeform: ($30k, iirc)
wao_: jurov: well, I can get E7-xxxx for $7000, but is it worth?
assbot: After raising record $3.4M on Kickstarter, UK drone startup collapses | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1NEcyCU )
ascii_field: mircea_popescu looked like he was about to have aneurism. please don't! i did not want to piss on his parade, but must point out that if $magichost folks do the same exact thing as the last 1,001 folks, they will get... same result
pete_dushenski: "The Russian passenger jet that crashed over Sinai, Egypt, was brought down by a bomb estimated to contain 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of explosives, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service said Tuesday, and the Russian government is offering a $50 million reward for information about those who brought it down."
assbot: Nigerian Professor Claims To Have Solved 156-Year-Old Maths Problem, Which Carries $1Million Prize - Yahoo News ... ( http://bit.ly/1N9DXCm )
whaack: http://i.imgur.com/nYokdoN.png << Circle went from $100 in "BTC" to MIT students to $5 in fiat
punkman: 2checkout down to 2.4% +$.3 per tx huh, used to be 2-3 times that
asciilifeform: normally <$1k
assbot: Buying $100,000 in BTC with credit cards, fleeing country : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1H5smC3 )
ascii_field: ' It’s $2.99 on Kindle, if you’d like me to Venmo you the money. As a person who not all that long ago walked away from Gawker Media, and who also grew up reading Gawker, Jezebel, and Deadspin, the little Kindle Single can actually be a delight...' << at this point my gas mask clogged and i can read no moar
BingoBoingo: Under $1.70/gallon in places
trinque: "estimated to raise $398 million over 10 years" << lulz
assbot: Exclusive: China's Tsinghua Unigroup to invest $47 billion to build chip empire| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1kZz7e3 )
BingoBoingo: There's this odd cognitive dissonance in internet drug users where they will make an earnest effort to derp about the medical mineutia that distinguishes very similar compounds, yet they will rarely get a $20 rapid test to make sure the compound they are about to consume is actually what they anticipate consuming
adlai: testingthisstuff: also fyi, even the tor developers admit to the ease (~$1M) with which a large-scale sybil attack can be mounted against the network
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:42:10; phf: and to tie it all nicely, latest muppet lab announcement, http://isrl.byu.edu/506-2/ "Kent Seamons and Daniel Zappala received an NSF grant for Middleware for Certificate-Based Authentication. This is a three-year award for $496,900. The goal of this research is to develop a trust platform that consolidates the decision-making process into a single location to provide a correct, consistent, and usable service
phf: and to tie it all nicely, latest muppet lab announcement, http://isrl.byu.edu/506-2/ "Kent Seamons and Daniel Zappala received an NSF grant for Middleware for Certificate-Based Authentication. This is a three-year award for $496,900. The goal of this research is to develop a trust platform that consolidates the decision-making process into a single location to provide a correct, consistent, and usable service for all existing and ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i was running forward ss in 1985 moscow, what i'd do is have a huge supply of $stuff crash 30 miles from moscow.
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has recently proposed Financial Access at Birth (FAB) initiative in which every child born in the world is given an initial deposit of $100 in an online bank account to guarantee that everyone in the world will have access to financial services in a few decades.You can read about the initiative by clicking here.. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: ~$100 - 200
asciilifeform: where somebody gets trapped in a bubble and told 'the state of the art is this thing here and guess what they never got $longagosolveditem to work, therealbitcoin suxx!!1111'
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324128 << whgart the shit is this ? << it costs me $7 per month. ☝︎
jurov: i then squeezed $$$ out of them
assbot: Gemini $2200 per Bitcoin! Are they out of Bitcoin to sell? - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1H1Wyh8 )
assbot: Gemini $2200 per Bitcoin! Are they out of Bitcoin to sell? - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1H1Wyh8 )
assbot: CentralNic to Acquire Internet.BS In A Deal Worth Up to $7.5 Million ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lf8irN )
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ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i haven't seen many things that i could reproduce in the production environment that i couldn't reproduce in my local environments, but even for weirdness showing up in production that needs debugging there, i run the application in the browser to get it to the bad state, attach to the code running on the server (however that works for $turdlang), and inspect what the browser is doing and how the server responds.
ben_vulpes: yo so was it $epithet in paris or what?
BingoBoingo: Since the $20's aren't benjies they can be spent
BingoBoingo wonders how asciilifeform would handle sudden wealth in the form of 2000 BTC, a 20lb gold dumbell (encased in vinyl for concealment), and a duffel bag full of $20 dollar bills.
liquidassets: really...? he said something like $1000/lb, was it expensive? Where did you try it?
assbot: Four bidders won $14 million worth of bitcoin in last U.S. auction| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1RS3gqF )
punkman: "Just spent 500$ and am feeling great about it. The DDOS is most likely done by a government agency i suspect"
punkman: https://www.gofundme.com/protonmaildefense $57k huh
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2015#1322020 << I don't see it. nobody cares about those folks, and they don't own anything. Facebook might have paid $5k "corporate tax", but they have 100,000+ sq feet office and I dunno, 500-1000 employees in UK? ☝︎
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mircea_popescu: (legal precedent : http://trilema.com/2013/the-endless-story-of-korea/#selection-81.0-81.349 aka "Plaintiff seeks to make his case solely upon the theory that, by reason of the change in the weight of the dollar he is entitled to $1.69 in the present currency for every dollar promised by the bond, regardless of any actual loss he has suffered with respect to any transaction in which his dollars may be used. We think th
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pete_dushenski: did he build a $6 mn man for a running mate ?
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pete_dushenski: a $50-200k luxury good is a $50-200k luxury good
punkman: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-10/why-alibaba-is-having-singles-day-in-beijing-for-first-time "Transactions on this year’s event passed 57.1 billion yuan ($9 billion) before midday, eclipsing the 2014 mark with another 12 hours still to go."
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BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski Tag Heuer is more $1500 than 10 k price range
asciilifeform: i can retell galois or i can $work.
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asciilifeform: at least not the $15k one i used some years ago
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 13:30:52; copypaste: I've seen current professional book scanners, they are huge and cost $10K USD minimum
copypaste: I've seen current professional book scanners, they are huge and cost $10K USD minimum ☟︎
phf: in fact in v's case $verified serves no other purpose, but to do the whole for:else:
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: once or twice a year i get a check for $10 or so from them.
assbot: Logged on 09-11-2015 13:41:59; BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> ok, $2k servicing. but still ! << What you can't do this at home?
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2013 01:16:17; asciilifeform: two drunks each pay the other $100 to eat spoon of shit.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-11-2015#1320822 << the $64k question, of course, is: did the coroner whack the ln2'd stiff with a little hammer, like a sausage in physics school ? ☝︎
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assbot: Logged on 09-11-2015 07:30:51; pete_dushenski: not like patek philippe doesn't need $5k servicing every 3 years.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> ok, $2k servicing. but still ! << What you can't do this at home? ☟︎
pete_dushenski: ok, $2k servicing. but still !
pete_dushenski: not like patek philippe doesn't need $5k servicing every 3 years. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: what, like giving your child a legacy is free ? pff. don't be cheap. buy more $aapl
BingoBoingo: Because when the coach signs off on it who is some $400k a year president compared to a $2mil+ coach
BingoBoingo: "The verified Twitter account for Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel has posted a picture of the team and coaches locking arms." << I am more certain Wolfe is out this week, probably Monday, than I am Bitcoin is crossing $400 again this month.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yours is the $64-quadrillion-bezzollar question - what weapon
kakobrekla: >but SEC believes suspect made just $100.
kakobrekla: >prosecutors allege that Craig's false tweet-storms caused $1.6 million in losses to shareholders.
adlai: he said, "nah, any guy from $bezzleCorp you see, i'm the thorn in his ass"
adlai: while field-testing $bezzleCorp-supplied equipment, sergeant adlai asked an unfamiliar civilian, not wearing $bezzleCorp.colors, who showed up one day whether he also belonged to them.
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ben_vulpes: "my only job around here is to scowl loudly at bad commits and demand more tests" - $bzprtnr
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pete_dushenski: "Surgeons break the leg bone in two and implant a state-of-the-art telescopic rod into the middle of the broken bones which then pulls the bone apart very slowly, about one millimeter a day. New bone grows around it and tissues like the muscle, the nerves, the arteries, and the skin, regenerate as well. At about $85,000, the procedure is expensive and the process lengthy. It takes at least three months to complete it
pete_dushenski: fantastic way to spend $20 (normal movie is $13)
pete_dushenski: 500 and has no restrictions on where it can be used. The second, which may be valued between $500 and $750, will be limited to use at Volkswagen dealerships." << in which vw doesn't even try to 'fix' the problem that isn't and instead distributes cash to owners whose vehicles WILL BE WORTH MORE than the owners of post-scandal neutertronics
assbot: Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion | Business Wire ... ( http://bit.ly/1NULamJ )
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assbot: ProtonMail coughs up $6000 to stop DDoS attack, DDoS carries on anyway | ZDNet ... ( http://bit.ly/1NTxjNF )
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mircea_popescu: d in college. If you are going to college to get an education and not to meet guys, you are insane, literally insane, delusional, in reality one is never going to happen and the other is going to happen anyway, and you could have gotten both for free at a bookstore. Worked for me. The only question for the future single mom is whether it's worth $XXXXXX a year to meet guys, and the answer is of course it's not, even
mod6: When I wasn't cutting down trees, I would blow up an air matress and float down this creek that ran through a private golf course. Where I would fish the golf balls out of the creek, shine 'em up and sell 'em back to the guys who just hit 'em in there for like $0.25 per ball.
BingoBoingo: (roughly $3,500 per week), and a round-the-clock sober companion to oversee the entire operation (approximately $10,000 per week). The final total for a week of the most luxurious stint of detox known to man? Around $50,000. Room service not included."
BingoBoingo: "If the idea of entering a facility, even a luxury one, is too much to bear, you can always follow the lead of true ballers who detox in style at luxury suites at Claridge’s in London or Trump Tower in NYC to the tune of about $3,000 per night. For the roughly week-long experience, they’ll then hire an on-call doctor to administer a detox program and medication (an estimated $15,000 per week), a 24-hour nurse to facilitate it
ascii_field: audience collectively worth what, $1B ?
BingoBoingo: Foodstamp culture: "I saw an episode of Bridezillas that she wanted to use EBT for her wedding cake. Except it was her friends card and it was not a store she was getting it from it was a lady baking out of her house and the baker lady was going to buy the stuff for the cake and like $700 in groceries as her 'payment'. They all got fines, the baker got shut down and the friend lost her ability to receive stamps and I think lost cu