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gabrielradio: “If you’ve no debts and have
$10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans. More than 25% of Americans have collectively that is.”
pete_dushenski: "BMO’s annual debt report pegged average household debt in the province at
$124,838 in 2014 (compared to a Canadian average of
$76,140.) Among Albertans, half held credit card debt, 53 per cent had mortgages, and 17 per cent held student loans."
pete_dushenski: sorry, i exajamarated : "average Albertan owes
$24,271 not including their mortgage."
pete_dushenski: "VC investment in bitcoin companies dropped 41% from
$145m to
$85m – the lowest total of the last four quarters" << in more than one place.
pete_dushenski: "Chinese cross-border investment in greenfield projects and in expansion of existing projects in Africa fell by 84 per cent in the first half of this year compared with a year earlier, from
$3.54bn to
$568m." << the waterfall is drying up.
BingoBoingo: Maximum cost for parts on plasti-saturn is ~
$2000 for a donor car in great condition
mircea_popescu: Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969),[2] known by his stage name Jay Z (formerly Jay-Z),[3][4][5] is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2014, Forbes estimated Jay Z's net worth at nearly
$520 million.
ascii_field: l0l who the everliving fuck doesn't have
$ 25 ?
mircea_popescu: there';s nothinfg rightful in not having
$25 disposable to play, which is ALL this is about.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before a guy starts sending all the companies scam "copyright infringement" notices and invitations to pay
$600 to make the embarassment go away, like those twerps trawling the noob torrent folk.
ascii_field: (mortgage, 'student loan', tax. most of the stuff people actually owe
$maxint for)
ascii_field: originally had a meaning: shops with
$maxint funding and complete vertical integration for virii production (pipeline of 0day mining, proof of concept, weaponization, deployment) etc.
mircea_popescu: " Based upon the information provided, you have been placed in the "other" category of requesters, which means you are responsible for the cost of search time exceeding two hours (
$44.00/hour) and reproduction fees (
$.15 per page) exceeding 100 pages. We will notify you if it appears that we will meet or exceed our
$25.00 minimum billing threshold in processing your request." <<< where's the "blockchain technologee"
pete_dushenski: also, atm reduced from
$1k max per day to motherfucking "suggested max" of
$800.
pete_dushenski: same at retail level. local bank : "oh we only carry
$2`500 cash so that's your max withdrawal per day"
pete_dushenski: "Police took a substantial amount of marijuana and what Jose said was about
$10,000 in cash. The arrest report listed the cash at
$4,670. Jose said he never got his money back."
pete_dushenski: "The I.R.S., which accused Ms. Crile of underpaying her taxes by more than
$81,000 from 2004 to 2009, argued that based on several factors, such as her lack of a written business plan, her work as an artist was “an activity not engaged in for profit” and that she could not claim tax deductions in excess of the income she made from her art."
shinohai: Sounds good until I get accused of plagiarism and hounded on twitter to return the
$30-40 in BTC you "paid" me to write.
mircea_popescu: you're only in it for the money, why do more work for the same pay? F#@
$ that. It would take things like morals and integrity to do the right thing in the juvenile system in this country; two of the many virtues this system has little to none of. Corrupt judges receiving kickbacks and facility owners buying jets and boats with money obtained by falsely imprisoning minors is all business as usual in the juvenile justice
HeySteve: the china cheapies are like
$2.5 max
HeySteve: well maybe for marijuana growers but I mean just regular 60W bulbs, shouldn't be more than
$5 here
pete_dushenski: so it's
$1.39/oz, or about
$0.05/g, for opium in mainland china in case anyone was wondering how badly their silk road dealer was ripping them off.
pete_dushenski: "Forget Colorado, stoners. The real frontier of narcotic edibles is in Shaanxi province, China. A restaurant owner there just confessed to police that to keep customers coming back, he had infused his noodles with 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of pulverized poppy buds—which can contain narcotics like morphine and codeine—that he bought in August for 600 yuan (
$98)"
shinohai: Some enterprising individuals in this area will often lift cars using cinder blocks, as if
$19.99 is too much to rent a pair of jackstands and do it right.
mircea_popescu: punkman i can tell you the difference. it's about
$1k for half-and-half.
funkenstein_: "For the 9 months ended 30 September 2015 Factom had gross sales of US
$628,337 (resulting in a trading loss of US
$358,142 for the period). "
brg444: Minor, too, predicts that bitcoin as a currency “will get destroyed.” He likens the coin’s current market cap—about
$3.7 billion—to “an accounting mistake or rounding error that Bank of America makes.”
pete_dushenski: "Twitter has said it is cutting 336 jobs, roughly 8% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring of the business. The job cuts will cost between
$10m (£6.5m) and
$20m in severance pay, while the restructuring will cost between
$5m and
$15m, the company said." << sex sells. except when it's a platform for sex.
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 21:59:05; pete_dushenski: davout: "According to Schneier it costed ~
$3mn in 2012 to find an arbitrary SHA1 collision." << cost
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the basic problem is that you are decrypting
$blob and, so long as the output has the expected form (and how many of us check? yes, i check. but there are folks who will pipe it straight into their irc via shellatron. yes, you know who you are
ascii_field: so he modifies assbot so that the next time mircea_popescu is given otp token, it is actually carrying the rsa-enciphered symmetric key from
$message
pete_dushenski: davout: "According to Schneier it costed ~
$3mn in 2012 to find an arbitrary SHA1 collision." << cost
☟︎ assbot: The news wants to do a story on the
$500 computer Bitcoin lock hack. Does anyone know anyone affected by this? : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1G24DlG )
mircea_popescu: "If this seems implausible to you, which it must-- that's exactly the point of it-- consider the following extreme analogy, which surprisingly will be easier to understand, which is also the whole point: Say your father raped you repeatedly for a decade. Hold on, slow down, it gets worse: now you're 40, and he shows up asking you for
$2400 because, and I quote, "you have a responsibility to take care of me." There h
ascii_field: 'Here's the other side's example: when they talk about raising taxes on the rich, why do they pick a "low" point and push it higher? Should the highest rates be at
$250k/yr?
$300k? Another way of doing it, which is precisely why they cannot do it, is start at the top and move down. "We need
$1T. Ok, top five guys pay 90%. Not enough? How about top ten guys pay 90%. Not enough? Top...." I'm not advocating this or
mircea_popescu: he price of food stamps. Other correct responses would be
$700/mo for "some high school" (SSI) or
$1500/mo for "previous work experience" (unemployment). I would have accepted
$2000/mo for "minorities" (jail) for partial credit."
mircea_popescu: " Is there a natural economic equilibrium price where, say, a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid to use Instagram? Let me be explicit: my question is not should we do this, my question is that since this is precisely what's happening already, is it sustainable? What is the cost? I don't have to run the numbers, someone already has: it's
$150/mo for a college grads, i.e. t
phf: "how do i put it in the terms you understand? an apartment for
$300 a month. -- whoa! how do i get that? -- sure, so 5 apartments in this building, 7 year contract, i'll give you a 25% discount, that'll be
$94.5k. my secretary will give your secretary ach routing details."
punkman: "[
$400m] will be doled out slowly, however, says Mr. Ravikant, so as not to overwhelm the market. In the first year, AngelList will disperse about
$20 million of the money, ramping up to
$50 million a year in subsequent years." and "on a recent trip to China, two different limited partners each offered him
$500 million, but “we’re limited in how much capital we can absorb,”"
punkman: "A typical “fake wedding” hosts about 600 or 700 paying guests" *
$50 =
$30k, say the venue charges
$25 per head, that's a lot of pesos leftover
pete_dushenski: mitch_callahan the 34" version of that monitor holds some appeal for me but i'd have to see it in the metal first.
$1k isn't outlandish either.
cazalla: i believe there are some 144hz aroud now, and that eizo is 240hz which would be awesome but a bit
$$$ unless you have aspirations of the pros or something
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 18:23:11; ascii_field: 'Concretely, we estimate the SHA-1 collision cost today (i.e., Fall 2015) between 75K
$ and 120K
$ renting Amazon EC2 cloud computing over a few months.'
cazalla: so i had a car accident like 6 weeks ago, young chick merges into my lane, does a bunch of superficial damage, lodge claim and gotta take it to panelbeaters on monday for a quote.. but given the car is 20 years old, i'd rather a cash settlement than the car having the damage fixed.. insurance company is open to the idea once i've got the quote done which i would gauge around
$1,500 given the chick damaged 3 sections
assbot: New York judge blocks Paul Smith's College from changing name for
$20 million gift | Inside Higher Ed ... (
http://bit.ly/1L2VNTm )
ascii_field: 'Concretely, we estimate the SHA-1 collision cost today (i.e., Fall 2015) between 75K
$ and 120K
$ renting Amazon EC2 cloud computing over a few months.'
☟︎ pete_dushenski:
$cad 1 =
$usd 0.66 at the time, was parity five years ago, now back to 0.75
pete_dushenski: ah scratch that 40 guesstimate : the 1996 model msrp'd for 2079 yen,
$usd 15.99. so probably closer to
$cad 20.
pete_dushenski: global phenomenon eh. i don't think they were exactly cheap either. maybe
$cad 40 ? in ~1997 money ?
pete_dushenski: so... you can spec a 'microshit surface pro 4' with 1tb hd, 16gb ram, intel i7 for...
$2`700 !
pete_dushenski: "For just
$19.99, ShipFoliage.com will send you a few leaves harvested from the colorful forest floors of Vermont and New Hampshire. “Each leaf is carefully picked and color balanced in a bundle of three,” the website reads." << so
$6.66 for a generic leaf ?? what was that about money not growing on trees ?
mircea_popescu recalls many winters ago going through books, discovering
$680 express charge. turns out that if you want nyc service "within three days" you gotta pay like a week's wages. otherwise, the waiting list's 5 weeks long.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:28:38; asciilifeform: then anything bigger than a lift cabin is burned
$ BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> which is to say !s anything made for
$20k or so << I dare you to deliver to me a Compact pickup truck in the United States less than 3 years old. The problems are known.
assbot: Logged on 23-09-2015 02:04:53; asciilifeform: with no bureaucratic obstacles in the way (Officially not intended to be fed to human) - can get ANYTHING made for
$20K or so, in Kg+ qty.
mircea_popescu: guy was trading pot, had 5 grams + ~1k
$ confiscated, 2 years in prison for trading, 6 months for possession, suspended sentence.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 00:24:22; asciilifeform: (phun phakt: lucent corp. still brings in
$20M/yr or so... renting out rotary phones. caveat is that this figure is a few yrs old, and a substantial number of the chumps are likely to have succumbed to old age since it was last published)
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 00:21:52; asciilifeform: who rents a
$1k gadget ?
ascii_field: 'The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, told a Senate panel that only a very small number of Syrian fighters trained by the United States remained in the fight—perhaps as few as five. The tab for training and equipping them was
$500 million. That's
$100 million per fighter, but that's OK, because it's all good as long as the militar