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assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:03:04; PeterL: mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions. << you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated
$ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 01:07:56; asciilifeform: at any rate, i (and
$maxint others) will port
$whateverthefuckyouwant to, e.g., cray II. for a fee.
PeterL: mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions. << you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated
$ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
☟︎ phf: mod6: use File::Temp qw/:mktemp/;
$foo = mkdtemp("/tmp/fooXXXXXXX"); print
$foo."\n"; # => /tmp/foowq51sxd
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:54:25; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: usg algo is, as i understand: 1) pick a fella who needs to have problems 2) steer known scum to his
$thing 3) have it be established that he knows of (2) 4) pick him up as a thieves' fence
mircea_popescu: Ethereum (ETH)
$ 0.748576 (-24.18 %) 0.00152907 BTC (-39.43 %)
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to top
$600 before Jan 2016 :: 16.09 B (26%) on Yes, 46.75 B (74%) on No | closing in 1 month 1 week| weight: 84`375 (100`000 to 20`000) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Mc4SHV )
lobbes: hanbot: I've heard around
$30 a pop, though I've never been myself. My loathing of crowds may have kept me alive
assbot: Social Media Is Not Real Life on Instagram: “Was paid
$400 to post a dress. That's when I had maybe 150k followers, with half a million followers, I know of many online brands (with big budgets) that pay up to
$2000 per post. Nothing is wrong with accepting brand deals. I just think it should be k ... (
http://bit.ly/1RNN4X7 )
assbot: The same day MMM (global ponzi scheme using bitcoin) announces it is pausing operations, the bitcoin price drops
$20 in a minute. This is totally coincidental and the recent
$100 spike was caused purely by fundamentals and adoption : Buttcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1l15ARA )
v_diddy: "oh your wordpress is very very insecure. it has shared php hosting. you need to spend
$maxint to migrate to custom blablabla with frufrufru to protect your reputation and reduce the risk of br34ches!1"
BingoBoingo: <v_diddy> really? scratch-offs are provably trustable now? << Even more of a Gamble in Illinois. Prize over
$600, get paid maybe nevar.
v_diddy: anyways, at a high level, one aspect of the wager i'm making here is that if a moron like me can with dilligence and self-discipline figure out how to turn a dollar into a buck twenty, if i bring the discipline and insist on the dilligence, i oughta be able to crap out at least one kid that can support me through
$enddayz when my meatwot is all dead and dried up
v_diddy: trinque: man can i get
$legendaryshitshow1 and
$...2 from that guy yet?
trinque: I'm just mocking the poverty of
$oldboss
v_diddy: actual incentive program at a place where a rescued
$wotschmuck once labored
mircea_popescu: Ferrari and now it's only a Honda, but either way, not much time for absences and no time at all for Keisha's learning curve. Keisha isn't just unemployed, she is completely unemployable. We can argue whether auto plants should pay
$20/hr or
$50/hr, but for certain there is no market for unskilled labor at all."
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin over
$326 before November :: 0.44 B (14%) on Yes, 2.59 B (86%) on No | closed 15 hours 2 minutes ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1HgHlDt )
ascii_field: perhaps some schmuck once showed him a crapple
$2k panel and he took a crowbar to it in disgust
BingoBoingo: Then she makes Jess a Backpage ad with a
$500 minimum and shit goes to all hell
BingoBoingo: From the story: "So when they finished he gave her
$100. I said "jess, you selling your puss for
$100??? Pussy is worth thousands. U Trippin"
punkman: "Your Printer has stopped? Waste Ink Pads counter overflow? Want to go to Canon Customer Service? Want give them
$50? DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME and MONEY – RESET YOUR PRINTERS YOURSELF"
mircea_popescu: A judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court said Wednesday that Caroline Westlake must pay 800 pounds (
$1,235) to Kate Sanders for assaulting her in a dispute over colleague Adam Davies, who had dated both women.
phf: mircea_popescu: afaiu, steam now funnels all indie submissions through "steam greenlight". you list your game for
$100 fee, description, screenshots, gameplay videos, demos, etc. and the commoonity votes on whether or not they would want to see it in the store. they explicitly mention that for free games any sort of in game payments must been done exclusively through "steam wallet". the technical side involves integrating their
assbot: Seventeen years and
$2.7 billion in, Pentagon's high-tech blimps fail to deliver on promise - Baltimore Sun ... (
http://bit.ly/1kb0Sjz )
pete_dushenski: because corporate lawyers work 80 hours a week and sop up their tears with
$500k -
$1.5 mn a year.
mircea_popescu: all on borrowed money. There were cost-of-living loans, and tuition of about
$33,000 a year. Later came a
$15,000 loan to cover months of studying for the bar.
mircea_popescu: "WHEN Mr. Wallerstein started at Thomas Jefferson, he was in no mood for austerity. He borrowed so much that before the start of his first semester he nearly put a down payment on a
$350,000 two-bedroom, two-bath condo, figuring that the investment would earn a profit by the time he graduated. ...Mr. Wallerstein rented a spacious apartment. He also spent a month studying in the South of France and a month in Prague --
mircea_popescu: donations" factor by calling alumni and asking them to donate
$5, and whoever doesn't donate label as deceased."
mircea_popescu: Which brings us to the first point, the main point: law schools are lying. Despite the fact that "JDs face the grimmest job market in decades" the schools are somehow reporting to prosepctive applicants that, e.g., "93% of grads are working" and "the median starting salary of graduates in the private sector is
$160,000."
pete_dushenski: 'Status of Women. Consolidated expense is budgeted at
$1 .4 million in 2015-16 . A province-wide dialogue around the formation of this new ministry is underway .' << mkay
pete_dushenski: eh nothing exciting :
$4 bn for 'human services' and
$11 bn for 'other ministries' (agri, natives, tourism, energy). also ~
$1 bn for debt servicing and ~
$1 bn for 'disasters'
pete_dushenski: speaking of health and inconsistency, alberta's new ndp gov (hyper-unionistas) just released its 2015 budget today :
$19.7 billion for health care,
$7.6 billion for k-12 education, and
$5.7 billion for post-secondary out of a total
$50 billion budget
mircea_popescu: "The physical chip was designed by Mykotronx (USA) and manufactured by VLSI Technology Inc. (USA). The initial cost for an unprogrammed chip was
$16 and a programmed one costed
$26."
mircea_popescu: "There is a terrible, terrible, ugly truth underlying all of this, and that is that taxes don't matter to a government that can print money. The government collected
$2.4T and spent
$3.6T. They'll take what they get, of course, but if they had collected
$2T or
$3T you/they would not have noticed. The country isn't a household, it is a bank, and as long as the rest of the world believes "we're good for it," then we a
gabriel_laddel: trinque: I enjoyed the fuck out of going to buy
$CENSORED and was really excited about it, but ended up sleeping through the allotted time.
adlai: no, but you'll have an easier time building that with the condition system than if you're using
$blub
mircea_popescu: "total drug sales climbed to
$300B (more spending on drugs)."
pete_dushenski: same story today. chocolate exists, but only at
$maxint
pete_dushenski: "Alphabet beat earnings estimates by 14 cents with Q3 profit of
$7.20 a share. Advertising revenue on its Google sites pushed sales to rise 13% to
$18.68 billion." << stock +9% today
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does Richard Wilkinson manage to look at the data showing that us blacks making
$1k a month just for the asking nevertheless sit around poles like monkeys glaring at people ; whereas those same blacks living in brazil, making a quarter as much or less for 200+ hour work months go out and fix the swing in the park that they build for free in their spare time and decide there's something wrong "with society"