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mircea_popescu: hey, last time euro dropped 1% in a day, you couldn't get out of the fucking "o noes europe is teh end" usg agitprop
asciilifeform: dip 2.51 % is 'freefall' ??
a111: Logged on 2016-04-08 20:36 mircea_popescu: davout i have nfi what you did here. for one thing, shareholders don't get 86, they get 86 + 1% of resolveed bets - 13.37
mircea_popescu: mod6 ftr that was about 50% of italian GDP throughout the past 1500 or so years.
asciilifeform: (the typical modern auto is built to fall apart within 1% or somesuch of the day the credit is paid off)
mircea_popescu: this because 99% of people who currently own cars shouldn't own as much as a pocket knife.
mircea_popescu: mats don't ever get married ; it's like buying a cunt that sits unlubricated 99% of the time!
mats: if it weren't for uber i'd own a vehicle that sits unpowered 95% of the time
mircea_popescu: eulora uses opengl, and that's ~100% of all linux gaming.
mircea_popescu: and on top of which the beauty of wot-access-control, perhaps nto apparent yet, is that if you're hit with something it'll be both complex and readily documented. as opposed to the faux-real-world, where one still gets 90% brute force ssh attempts and crap.
asciilifeform: i kinda wonder now, what % of folks around here are su exiles
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if ((rand() % 666) == 1) disconnect_terrorist();
asciilifeform: at this point i would do pretty much anything so long as it pays the bills and is 100% tele
mod6: but, only 5% wfh basically.
mod6: in oct the place i was at which was wfh pretty much 90% of the time went under. found a life-raft at the current place.
asciilifeform: like 99% of the 'intellectualz' of his time.
mircea_popescu: davout i have nfi what you did here. for one thing, shareholders don't get 86, they get 86 + 1% of resolveed bets - 13.37 ☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: i presently pay ~50% tax.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i actually don't have much to choose from. 95+% of work in my field requires usg 'top secret'.
mircea_popescu: just as soon as the damage done to a hated third party (here, the russians and especially the saudis) exceeds the damage done to the item itself, it's 100%.
mircea_popescu: in a stroke of incomprehensible, ancient beings brilliance, minimal value of bitbet as established by signed contract in 2012 (100 btc) is almost within 10% of liquidation value of bitbet as established by free market / receiver, of ~89.35.
asciilifeform: it is classic app store - 'don't like it? go sell on the street, keep 100% of the pennies you get'
asciilifeform: (where in fact author is lucky to see 3-5%)
mircea_popescu: in entirely unrelated but omfg i can't believe this - cascadia dwelling derpy mother of slavegirl that wants to think of self as "fiber artist" but otherwise crochets like any old woman since time immemorial, landed what to her appears as a very good deal. she sells her stuff in a senior citizen center gift shop. for a 15% comission. to understand each other : she provides the merchandise. she provides the sales workforce. sh
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell davout delete xmlrpc.php from your wordpress install and you will be 95% of the way to securing your blawg ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government’s main student-loan program aren’t making payments << incidentally... i own a coupla of these.
asciilifeform: '... The picture has improved slightly from a year earlier, when the nonpayment rate was 46%, but that progress largely reflected a surge in Americans entering a program for distressed borrowers to lower their payments.'
asciilifeform: 'More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government’s main student-loan program aren’t making payments or are behind on more than $200 billion owed, raising worries that millions of them may never repay.'
mircea_popescu: hm. hey phf : http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22localize+that%22 vs http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-07-2015#1189592 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: still at what, 1% of historical valuation ? 2 ?
asciilifeform: they were 100% commonlisp (allegro) but never will be published or advertised.
asciilifeform: the publicly-sold-miners thing was 100% chumpstrapping
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asciilifeform: except that dram ~demands~ the controller, and it HAS to meet the timing spec 100% of the time, or it loses bits.
mod6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_%28computer_science%29
asciilifeform: patents in modern world are 100% scamola.
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midnightmagic: but there's a neat possible 20% algorithmic improvement in bitcoin mining that was just released that might eat bitfury/et al lunch.
PeterL: S.MG with an earnings of 0.14%, that's better than my savings account
mircea_popescu: bout 50%, iirc, that sometimes.
asciilifeform: 9 or so of the remaining % is because you get static memory (no consing, no gc, FORCED to intelligently allocate).
asciilifeform: 90% of why i like ada is that it 'compiles like c' (i.e. without massive runtime or bytecode claptrap in place of ida-able binary) WHILE having bounds-checked array accesses etc.
mircea_popescu: ie, crazy-five-year-plan-gas doublespoken as "regular" being excised at only 67%, while actual regular at 84%
mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/0TK5TNG.txt << and pray tell, 50% OF WHAT
mircea_popescu: "sciencehatesyou 3 points 1 day ago* I can't be bothered to read his tedious text. I also don't care what he does with his fake exchange and dumbass site, it's not like anyone was using it. The whole thing was a fake front, a facade, from day one. He has been cast out from butt circles, and as a last resort, was here trolling buttcoin for clicks using sock puppets (and man does that guy use sock puppets - 90% of the users o
mircea_popescu: specifically : i would judge trinque did 10% of the job yet. still has to specific.
mircea_popescu: %anybotshere ?
asciilifeform: i have ~98% logz from 2013 up
mircea_popescu: you get 9 tools type A to 10 tools type B ; all the B's work, about half the A's work and while Bs are always on As are on 1% of the time or so.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 5, but my dick has been inside 1 of them so 20% interesting rate.
pete_dushenski: " With only 7% of Canadians having mortgage terms between six and 10 years, long terms are not a popular choice in Canada. They are even less popular amongst younger age groups at only 3% uptake in ages 18-34."
asciilifeform: 100%
deedbot-: [Qntra] Latest Bitcoin Network Difficulty Adjustment ~0.82% - http://qntra.net/2016/04/latest-bitcoin-network-difficulty-adjustment-0-82/
PeterL: but yeah, a "savings account" gets 0.1% APY
PeterL: ben_vulpes> 1% interest on checking or savings accounts oh my sides << at my local credit union you can get 2% interest with a 5 year certificate, does not keep up with inflation but its better than no interest
ben_vulpes: 1% interest on checking or savings accounts oh my sides
asciilifeform: i'm not aware of any positions there which even include 100% tele.
pete_dushenski: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/ireland-sells-first-100-year-bond-to-complete-comeback-trail << ru 5-year bonds at 9% and irl CENTURY bonds at... 2.35% ? wtfbbqsauze
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asciilifeform: well not 100% mechanical, it has meat in it.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: aha. ru also offers 9% on 5-year bonds. sign a nigga up!
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: afaik modern day champ is ru, at 15% flat.
pete_dushenski: reading 'titan' (mega-jdr bio) and longing for days of 3% income tax for $600-10k, 5% over $10k
pete_dushenski: http://philipmaymin.com/papers/Philip%20Maymin%20and%20Zakhar%20Maymin%20-%20Any%20Regulation%20of%20Risk%20Increases%20Risk%20-%20FMPM%202012.pdf << 'Thus, we conclude that the effect of any objective rules for regulation will result both in more risk being taken by each individual bank, and by the risks taken by different banks to be more correlated with each other, resulting in a far more fragile financial system than
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my pet is 100% portable.
mircea_popescu: much like aeron flux, this film sins because a) the chick should have been naked about 50% of the film more, ie 50% instead of 0% ;
mircea_popescu: makes sense - my "crazyness" is the direct cause of about 99.x% of the times slavegirls get their hide recolored.
phf: in earlier years i wrote a scripting language where processes will go mad after running too long, i.e. each operation had a correctness probability that will be logarithmically adjust based on thread's age. a boolean expression that returns true at 1, will return false 30% of time at .7, etc. i vaguely suspect something like that was used to write eulora server
asciilifeform: but they are so threadbare, that a loss of 2-3% can mean death.
mircea_popescu: currently they make 9x% of their money from stipend.
mircea_popescu: to a measurable but in any case low tolerance. sure, 0.000001% hash won't matter.
mircea_popescu: i mean on a 80% sort of approach, sure, no problem
mircea_popescu: in line with what appears to be the xi policy. he's gutted the bureaucracy, which obviously pissed off all the wanna-be 14%, as what he aims is very much in line with the mp definition of government ("may exist for as long as i don't see it")
mircea_popescu: no fucking individual member of the public has even 1% of the intellectual werewithal to even consider the matter in the sense of putting all its disparate elements on the table ; let alone drive a sane conclusion from the mess.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-03-2016#1440358 << i wonder why pete_dushenski did not likewise suggest spamming. it has exactly the same 'hollywood tournament market' profit distribution. ftr i was a malware hunter and exterminator for some years. 99+% of ransomware artists made ~0. ☝︎
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PeterL: what do you mean 1% fee spammy, that is what they take as commision
jurov: and 1% fees spammy
PeterL: jurov, wouldn't it be easier, rather than doing two transactions (sweep, then distribute) to just do a single? (bets are used to pay winnings, the 1%fee to a bbet company address)
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mircea_popescu: if you are going to make other determinations than who won a bet, might as well put a 50% tax on the richest 10% or w/e the french fashion is these days.
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asciilifeform: and making custom butt plugs, gags, to 5% accuracy
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asciilifeform: i used norton commander's editor for 99% of things.
asciilifeform: and is not even in all cases 100% documented, so will be difficult to re-create.
mod6: 99.9995% of time it works. except for when it doesnt.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> well, the implicit 'i swear with my life to this' - leaves me reluctant to sign anything i did not write 100% of << and who's to say, even if you wrote everything at one layer, that something doesn't fuck you in the butt from a layer below? we don't have computers. never did.
jurov: and sometimes it happens suddenly, like https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SWSqP8WFOdQ/Vu68Q-o05wI/AAAAAAAAJu0/rMYkpDTWpGk/w441-h221-no/rabbit%2Bpop.gif
asciilifeform: well, the implicit 'i swear with my life to this' - leaves me reluctant to sign anything i did not write 100% of