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punkman: mircea_popescu: no wai, I just did one the other day for
$15
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 23:27:06; pete_dushenski: and speaking of wowz and suches and muches and scamcoins, i just checked the chart for dogecoin and it's really surprisingly stable. also noted that
$50-100k of the crap trades hands on a daily basis. then again, could be some dogederps trading with himself all day.
pete_dushenski: and speaking of wowz and suches and muches and scamcoins, i just checked the chart for dogecoin and it's really surprisingly stable. also noted that
$50-100k of the crap trades hands on a daily basis. then again, could be some dogederps trading with himself all day.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "American Apparel Inc, known as much for its sexually charged advertising and controversial founder as for its fashion offerings, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday" << this is what 'made in american sweatshops' buys you.
$20.5 mn of 'value' and
$300 mn in debt.
ben_vulpes:
$rokkitclub collectively blinked in confusion and carried on with tricks
ben_vulpes: person in question made an appearance at
$rokkitclub as well on the same topic.
mircea_popescu: "With these ca. 100.000 dls we made a whooping
$162 in total. In other words form 100.000 people playing or at least downloading the game 127 in App Purchases were tracked by Apple, which means that 0.13% of our user base as paid something inside the App. Don’t get us wrong: We are thankful for those purchases and we hope that you enjoy our game, but to build a sustainable business this won’t get us very far as an
mircea_popescu: " 50 million downloads and
$10 million later" << eulora only made ~2k or so yet.
mircea_popescu: "On October 8th, 2013, just a few days shy of one year since CSD officially launched, the game landed on Steam. And in just one day, I had made nearly
$15,000 in gross sales, which was almost as much as I made in the entire last year on PC/Mac/Linux for CSD. In two days, I surpassed it. In one week, I had made over
$50,000 in gross revenue… more than I did in the last three years as a game maker and barista. My fami
trinque: I'm in a
$50/day hotel room with king sized bed, indoor pool, it's lovely
punkman: and sucker gotta pay
$100/month for it
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
$250 or above on September 30th :: 0.12 B (60%) on Yes, 0.08 B (40%) on No | closed 2 weeks 4 days ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1KZW0EN )
ascii_field: you need the precision of a
$1M injection molder.
ascii_field: there ~are~ constructive uses for '3d printer', we even have one here, in a closet, at
$rupturefarms
pete_dushenski: and for what it's worth, the car looks to be a nissan altima coupe. ~
$35k off the dealer lot.
AgentScully: someone in Mexico City went through the trouble of stealing a
$200 tops thinkpad I had, thank god my hard drive was encrypted because who knows what kind of smut I lost.
pete_dushenski: looks like the best flight deals for march 2016 are about
$900 and 18hrs in the air from here. definitely manageable.
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2015 13:55:17; pete_dushenski: Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough, ftr, you both suck. that you've raised
$350k is a testament to the problem of too much money, not the worth of your unoriginal ideas. don't quit your dayjobs and/or give your rich husband's feet a big smooch when you get home.
pete_dushenski: "As of Monday, the company’s shares put its value at
$7.6 million" << gtfo. seriously.
pete_dushenski: Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough, ftr, you both suck. that you've raised
$350k is a testament to the problem of too much money, not the worth of your unoriginal ideas. don't quit your dayjobs and/or give your rich husband's feet a big smooch when you get home.
☟︎ cazalla: mircea_popescu, nah, local supermarket use to do roast chickens for
$2 at the end of the day
ascii_field: ^ plausibility: approximately zero; money:
$millions
ascii_field: (as i understand, anyone who so much as touched bitcoind since
$10 or so is guilty until proven innocent of being a gavin)
ascii_field: ' It's still hiring like crazy, with nearly 10,000 open jobs listed on its website, for instance, and it has ratcheted up research and development a bit, spending
$8.7 billion in its last fiscal year — which ended in August — compared to
$8.6 billion in fiscal 2014.' << does anyone else feel brain melting from the sheer density of flimflam packed into this paragraph ?
mircea_popescu: altogether a marginally better showing than garza's "buyout at
$20" plan.
mircea_popescu: "When blockchain technology will become more adopted by businesses, is an ether price of 100
$ realistic ? (self.ethtrader)"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no but seriously. at what point does the idea form that hey, minuscule "pollutants" out of extant cars aren't the problem. stop giving so many derps cars! << The used car market is finally starting to regain some price sanity after the "cash for clunkers" supply contraction. The confinscatadors may be planning to do a repeat except with more "fuck you" and less "
$5000" rebate
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu "Ethereum now actually exists, and those who were lucky enough to take up Mircea Popescu’s offer to buy ETH from him that he doesn’t have at a price of
$0.12 a piece are welcome to try their best to collect." << from ethblogthing
ben_vulpes: 'cause i suuuure as shit ain't writing any more code than is necessary than to pry mword open to execute my "portable code" (as
$newclient's IT dept refers to...everything)
assbot: [L] SFYL pending. Captain of the industry TradeFortress reboots 'inputs.io' as 'wallet.la' after previously losing
$1.2M worth of Bitcoin in a "hack". : Buttcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1RaosrR )
pete_dushenski: ^ older data, only one geographic region, but looks like the bots were yielding ~
$70/hr.
pete_dushenski: appears that revenues went from roughly
$60,000 per month, to
$110, 500."
pete_dushenski: i was actually looking up nannies/babysitters earlier and was expecting them all to be
$25/hr or some shit. pleasantly surprised to find several ads for
$10/hr cash
pete_dushenski: "An investigation is underway as to whether US military personnel tried to get the government to foot the bill for a total of
$96,576 (£63,268) spent on strippers in Las Vegas. The Pentagon's Inspector General is also looking into claims the personnel tried to expense
$952,258 (£623,838) spent in casinos."
punkman: "Paquete subscribers pay between
$1 and
$3 per week" "In addition to the subscription fees, revenue for El Paquete comes from a classifieds section called "Revolico." Sellers pay to list their items, and you can get a premium listing if you pay more. Revolico is the cash cow of El Paquete."
punkman: well they got
$10mil in June, can't be using old and dusty gpg now, gotta come up with their own stupid shit
assbot: IRS Agent Busted for Attempting to Extort
$20,000 from Cannabis Shop Owner | The Free Thought Project ... (
http://bit.ly/1KyVuj1 )
mircea_popescu: "Wait. So someone purchased etherwallet.org (a premium domain name worth a not trivial amount of money most likely), put the work into creating an actual functional wallet with a pretty decent design, spent weeks promoting it, and for what?
$1400? What is this? Kindergarten?"
mircea_popescu: With total accumulated investment reaching
$32.7M, BitPay has now raised more venture funding than any other bitcoin startup. << this is drastically false.
assbot: Bitcoin payments pioneer BitPay raises record
$30M in Series A led by Index Ventures | Index Ventures ... (
http://bit.ly/1KTpPdl )
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 03:09:44; mircea_popescu: BitPay will soon be dead. They probably make
$1000 per month revenue and burn around
$500K.
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 13:50:30; hdbuck: raspi + 3D printed case! they'll sell at least 100 of them, so that's around
$1.2 million a piece to pay back the VCs. i am waiting for the « toasters » tho.
assbot: Harvard employee accused of spending
$80k of the university's money to buy Legos and iPads - infoBlizzard ... (
http://bit.ly/1Kxia2V )
hdbuck: raspi + 3D printed case! they'll sell at least 100 of them, so that's around
$1.2 million a piece to pay back the VCs. i am waiting for the « toasters » tho.
☟︎ punkman: "My gf don't know this but everytime we fuck I put
$1 in a jar & thats how much imma spend on her for her bday. So far she gettin a mcchicken"
phf: just went to groceries, spent about
$200 for ~maybe~ two weeks worth of food (chicken for just a couple of days and fruits for 3 days since it'll go bad), cashier kept asking questions "wow that's a lot of food! how many people? is this for a month? etc."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> how the fuck do you price this shit now ? << same way sub saharan africans can buy anti-malarials that before gouging cost
$13.50 a pop in USia
BingoBoingo: <punkman> how much pork does
$3 buy? << Little
punkman: how much pork does
$3 buy?
mircea_popescu: srsly, a complete meal out of
$3 ? no wonder inflation figures are down.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Well consider before the price spike in question med was going for
$13.50 per pill in the US and about
$0.035 elsewhere
cazalla: do americans actually pay such prices or is it simply a case where end user pays
$8.80 (as we do here) and the goverment/tax payer is fucked for the rest of it?
assbot: PM calls for it to become 'un-Australian' to disrespect women:
$100 million commitment on domestic violence - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ... (
http://bit.ly/1LxD83U )
assbot: BitBet - BTC to top
$700 before November :: 5.03 B (4%) on Yes, 118.82 B (96%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 2 days | weight: 38`035 (100`000 to 22`000) ... (
http://bit.ly/1FuQ1uw )
mircea_popescu: suppose i read this in 3030, at which point no fucking body knows what
$ is, and we decide it stands for "trustcoin"
psztorc: That was actually a footnote. It was
$1 in the pdf
mircea_popescu: ""Whereas a stock market is a place to buy and sell shares of a corporation’s earnings, a Prediction Market (PM) is a place to buy and sell predictions. Valid predictions entitle their owner to
$11"" << this, foir the record, is horrible writing. do not mix things so far apart the abstraction scale, it confuses idiots and it gives smart people the impression your abstractor really has very little breadth.
assbot: BECK
$ on Twitter: "@danielpbarron I'm personally too busy to kick your ass but don't worry I'm sure someone else will" ... (
http://bit.ly/1WhlLYq )
shinohai: Got billed
$250 for bandwidth overages
gernika: Would like to get my machine in a DC - but the cheapest hosting rate for a 1U I can find around here is
$200.00/mo. Which is 4x more than I last paid for the same service.
shinohai:
https://redd.it/3lv366 "If you truly believe that devices need to be loaded with Bitcoin, why wouldn't you just print out a QR, tape it to your Raspberry pi, and fund it with
$700 in Bitcoin?"
BingoBoingo: "The yield for those who received the
$7,000 annual scholarships was 7.1 percent – a statistically significant difference" ... lol "At the same time, the study suggests that the impact of this kind of merit aid may not be large -- the yield rate was low even for those receiving it."
shinohai: I could literally pay some doge derp
$1 to 3-d print that holder, I have the same product and the derp thinks "yay my currency is a success"
mircea_popescu: "In the deal, Hooli would invest
$200 million for equity while in return the two companies would enter into a business development agreement on the side in which Pied Piper guarantees to spend that money in a massive consumer campaign on Hooli’s ad platform."
mircea_popescu: besides, that
$450 mud bike thery want is just gonna produce hospital bills.
mircea_popescu: " But sitting in the parking lot it gave us the appearance of extravagance while inside the building we were living the frugal life--in a world starved for software development talent, it would have been hard to lose money paying MIT-educated programmers
$50-85,000 base salaries plus an end-of-year bonus based on accomplishment and the firm's performance."
pete_dushenski: just checked local classifieds, whole box with 'opteron' can be had for as little as
$150 still
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: inb4 amd opterons are going for
$1k a pop