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assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to top
$400 before January 2016 :: 4.55 B (18%) on Yes, 20.27 B (82%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 week| weight: 61`576 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q7xNzw )
shinohai: All they got was a cruddy old laptop worth abt
$200, wasn't insured.
shinohai: Which would you rather have,
$700 or a device that you charge
$50 for and people keep inserting coins in to use?
pete_dushenski: looks to be ~
$1/lb as a going rate, shockingly, exactly like in that trilema article
mircea_popescu: Blythe Masters says US lags in blockchain use (ft.com) / Over
$60 million in funding raised for bitcoin companies this week alone. / bla bla << "To sum up : what we have so far are a few millions invested in hopeless start-ups that have no talent, no business model, aren't solving a problem and generally speaking don't exist other than as a tag on an orange calling it a potato." /
http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of- ☟︎ davout: "
$1,500 for this shit?"
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:58:53; pete_dushenski: ya, ~
$30 per month ad infinitum gets you the latest greatest iphone
BingoBoingo: at
$100k bitcoin we could be talking about no practical way to send less than a crisp hundred dollar bill
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:00:18; cazalla: Vexual, nah i left because of some issues with asbestos and then started a new job, but turned out
$25 p/h for an 8 hour working day actually meant
$25 p/h for first 8 hours, work for next 4 hours for free! (fuck 12 hour days even if it was fully paid)
punkman: "Nishimura estimated that around US
$15,000 had been paid to blackmailers targeting Ashley Madison users."
pete_dushenski: now if apple's 'iphone upgrade program' were available in canada, which is isn't, this phone would have to be ~cdn
$50/month, seeing as usd
$ pricing 'starts at
$32/mo' for base iphone 6s with 32 gb and cdn-usd is 0.75.
pete_dushenski: ok, just checked pricing : new iphone 6s plus 128 gb is
$1`289. used iphone 6 plus 128 gb is
$850 here. a difference of
$439.
pete_dushenski: the trick being that the phone depreciates
$100 - 200 per year, and crapple's charging customers twice that
pete_dushenski: ya, ~
$30 per month ad infinitum gets you the latest greatest iphone
☟︎ cazalla: Vexual, nah i left because of some issues with asbestos and then started a new job, but turned out
$25 p/h for an 8 hour working day actually meant
$25 p/h for first 8 hours, work for next 4 hours for free! (fuck 12 hour days even if it was fully paid)
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 01:22:43; BingoBoingo:
$12,000-
$15,000 also fits the sweet spot for "toy" vehicles. Less than people pay for a boat and more than they can sell it for.
BingoBoingo: Fuck, a roadworthy chevy monte carlo can be had for
$500
BingoBoingo:
$12,000-
$15,000 also fits the sweet spot for "toy" vehicles. Less than people pay for a boat and more than they can sell it for.
☟︎ shinohai: Found a decent ti-89 for ~
$200.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 17:44:48; punkman: ascii_field, I wouldn't think fake capacity numbers are a problem, but yeah I guess you gotta write
$x GB of data to it that can't be compressed away
punkman: ascii_field, I wouldn't think fake capacity numbers are a problem, but yeah I guess you gotta write
$x GB of data to it that can't be compressed away
☟︎ BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: And if willing to eat rifle Mosins around
$200
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Even with more familiar stuff plenty of 1911 clones floating around
$350 to
$450 new
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo, am i mistaken ? <<
$500 in US could buy quality eating pistol
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 01:04:57; pete_dushenski: "I thought the support BitcoinXT had was way bigger because of so many people praising it on /r/Bitcoin. I wanted to help scale bitcoin so I spent about
$200 to set up 10 BitcoinXT nodes for a month."
pete_dushenski: "The
$200 I spent was almost 1/3 of my bitcoin savings and I regret wasting my money on this. Maybe I will keep running BitcoinXT at home but I haven't decided."
pete_dushenski: "I thought the support BitcoinXT had was way bigger because of so many people praising it on /r/Bitcoin. I wanted to help scale bitcoin so I spent about
$200 to set up 10 BitcoinXT nodes for a month."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Starting last month, New York City began tracking about 400 people's driving habits, including how much gas they use, when they drive, where they are, and how fast their cars go. The program, called "Drive Smart," promises drivers discounts of up to 30 percent on their Allstate auto insurance, as well as "incentive rewards valued at
$25," according to the program website.
thestringpuller: 17:44 < Tiraspol> when are my bitcoins gonna cost 1000
$ each again
pete_dushenski checks yeg to bwi.
$376 round trip with stop-over in ord.
pete_dushenski: ascii_field: by the time esr could legally sell his shares in 'lnux' (june 2000), the share price had tanked from
$240 at end of ipo day to ~
$40.
pete_dushenski: "A man sexually harassed by his boss at a Wellington hostel has been awarded more than
$35,000 after being sacked for complaining about the treatment."
pete_dushenski: "For Sale: AGM-114K Hellfire Missile, Slightly Damaged. Asking
$1000 OBO. Location: Fort Drum, NY"
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 08:11:53; punkman: pete_dushenski: ebay just sells flat-rate ads. << ebay still takes 10% fee on final price (up to
$1k or something). and that's before paypal fees. not for cars though.
pete_dushenski: "PBOC had stepped up its foreign exchange intervention to
$122 billion in August from about
$50 billion in July."
pete_dushenski: "China's foreign currency reserves shrunk by
$93.9 billion to hit
$3.56 trillion at August-end, the largest monthly drop on record, according to reports."
punkman: for a while you'd see items priced
$0.1 and rest of price in shipping costs, which worked to minimize fees.
punkman: pete_dushenski: ebay just sells flat-rate ads. << ebay still takes 10% fee on final price (up to
$1k or something). and that's before paypal fees. not for cars though.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Billiards Suite •
$4,000/night • sleeps 2 • Our most booked suite! This suite includes exclusive use of the billiards room for 8 hours, plus an adjoining hotel room. This is the most asked for suite in The Mansion for events, as you can sleep (if you choose) or play billiards on a
$150,000 classic billiards table." << via o mansion's absurdly bad www
pete_dushenski: nothing irks me quite like holier-than-thou bellboys though, once had one in nyc who flat-out rejected
$2. "not enough". because 0>2 in his fucking sandfilled head
pete_dushenski: "Here in Seattle, where the first stage of a
$15-an-hour minimum wage law took effect in April, Ivar’s seafood restaurants switched to an all-inclusive menu. By raising prices 21 percent and ending tipping, Bob C. Donegan, the president and co-owner, calculated he could increase everyone’s wages." << welcome to japan. i guess the pearl harbour invasion stuck after all.
ag3nt_zer0: "Jack Whittaker won
$315 million and ten years later, his daughter and granddaughter had both died of drug overdoses, his wife divorced him, and once while in a strip club, he was drugged and robbed of
$545,000 in cash"
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell asciilifeform `for i in
$(shasum -a 512 patches/* | awk '{print
$1}'); do python v.py patches o
$1; done` returns "No origin found." for all patches. i've not successfully run 'origin' yet.
punkman: shinohai: that's why they raised
$3.5mil to make an app
mircea_popescu:
$ gpg --verify florianweimer.fuckeveryonewhowaseverinvolvedincomputersyouarethereasonthingsuckihopeyougetcanceranddie.asc florianweimer.fuckeveryonewhowaseverinvolvedincomputersyouarethereasonthingsuckihopeyougetcanceranddie
ascii_field: one example of 'military' feature would be, say, guidance via laser (or something else the opponent can't jam with
$5 of components)
pete_dushenski: "For students seeking to make some extra bucks to pay for tuition, Pornhub may be able to help. The adult video website is offering a
$25,000 scholarship to a legal age college student who likes making others happy. "
jurov: pete_dushenski mats
$genericreassurance
$coinbrcomingbacksoon
$sorryforinconvenience
fluffypony: when I was there in November I got a prepaid SIM from T-Mobile for
$80 for a month
mats: would own if it was
$500 new
ben_vulpes:
$bizpartner got the new delicate thing
pete_dushenski: maybe i buy off-brand mac and cheese instead of 'kraft dinner', save
$0.50, invest, be moar rich !
assbot: How I Joined Teach for America--and Got Sued for
$20 Million by Joshua Kaplowitz, City Journal Winter 2003 ... (
http://bit.ly/1Uo1OBs )
mircea_popescu: if the alternative costs
$19 but breaks down once a day, the 1k one is cheaper.
mats: is there any way to look at the active mpoe order book (ie, the way 'mpexbot' used to spit 'em out with '
$depth <asset>')?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally it occurs to me - one theory that'd very well fit the soviet ibm insanity would be, "the captive thief". ie, a guy so enamoured with the idea that "this calculator is hot (ie, stolen)" that he'll gladly expend
$1500 to get a shitty pocket calculator, instead of
$1100 to get a 10x as powerful desktop.
assbot: How a bug in Visual Studio 2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me
$6,500 in a few hours ... (
http://bit.ly/1LIaQls )
assbot: A Law Enforcement Encounter: If you ran a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit
$100 you prolly ought to be somewhat concerned and/or prepared | Bingo Blog
jurov:
$ machinectl shell
mircea_popescu: "yes, the forever anal love of your mom's worth well over
$10k!"