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asciilifeform: last year, i was given several $k by the fella i work for, to buy whatever machine i wanted, so long as it was portable. ended up with top-of-the-line (at the time) 'lenovo', and WHEN USING ONLY FREE SOFT despite MONTHS of effort, neither battery, nor 'suspend mode', nor EXTERNDAL DISPAY OF ANY KIND work.
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 5.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $400 before January 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1170/bitcoin-to-top-400-before-january-2016/#b19
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 5.33000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $400 before January 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1170/bitcoin-to-top-400-before-january-2016/#b16
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.50000000 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $400 before January 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1170/bitcoin-to-top-400-before-january-2016/#b15
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 8.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $400 before January 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1170/bitcoin-to-top-400-before-january-2016/#b14
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: "So run off to the bathroom, strip naked and weigh yourself. Pork bellies go for ~$1 per pound, and so do you (provided you were frozen, trimmed, and added up to enough of your peers to make a 18`000 kg package)." << http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefield-of-the-future/#selection-133.273-133.484
pete_dushenski: looks to be ~$1/lb as a going rate, shockingly, exactly like in that trilema article
asciilifeform: (items like $3k laptops where the screen cracks two weeks after purchase, and THEY WON'T TAKE IT BACK, are why. that kind of thing is not forgotten, not forgiven. if the alternative were not microshit, apple would already be dead.)
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: hell, iphone 4 (5 years old?) still bring in >$100
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) ☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: one day someone will explain to me the point of buying a $megabuck machine to sit in traffic jam in.
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.
pete_dushenski: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3k8uez/youth_are_the_killer_app_of_bitcoin/ << "After many failed attempts at convincing friends/family/co-workers that Bitcoin is beneficial, one of my Minecraft server players asked me about it. I decided to send over $10 worth on Circle just so he could experience it first-hand. I didn't expect much, since he's young he might not understand even some basic financial c
BingoBoingo: Fuck, a roadworthy chevy monte carlo can be had for $500
pete_dushenski: $150 - $15k
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269147 << it's really quite bad ass, the hummer. assuming the heater worked, i'd pick one up for $15k ☝︎
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." ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1266284 << i r lulzed at the "Valued at $25". srsly ? that's what, 1/10000 of yearly rent ? lkulz. ☝︎
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.
asciilifeform: 'when are your bitcoins gonna cost $1 again / plz help'
thestringpuller: 17:44 < Tiraspol> when are my bitcoins gonna cost 1000$ each again
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assbot: The Dealer Who Swindled $6 Billion From General Motors ... ( http://bit.ly/1K3wyRC )
pete_dushenski checks yeg to bwi. $376 round trip with stop-over in ord.
pete_dushenski: not that $2,110/mo isn't still obscene
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 cannot imagine $500k pp transfer
pete_dushenski: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Porsche-911-TURBO-X50-/221870469237 << air cooled porsche lulz. at $500k, this 18-year-old 911 turbo x50 is pricier than absolutely everything the firm sells today save the 918, which is a 1/918 unit HYPERCAR that retails for $850k
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: we have '$1k 4 lyf' lotteries here. pretty lulzy
asciilifeform: 'William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but was $1 million in debt within a year. "I wish it never happened," Post said. "It was totally a nightmare." A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings and his brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him in the hopes he'd inherit a share of the winnings.'
asciilifeform: '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, as reported by The New York Times.' << thinking folk don't play lotteries.
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"
asciilifeform: say i wanna buy an xxxxxtron but don't have $10k.
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
assbot: Bitcoin miner DigitalBTC $6.77m in the red | ZDNet ... ( http://bit.ly/1NhnfA5 )
mircea_popescu: $ gpg --verify florianweimer.fuckeveryonewhowaseverinvolvedincomputersyouarethereasonthingsuckihopeyougetcanceranddie.asc florianweimer.fuckeveryonewhowaseverinvolvedincomputersyouarethereasonthingsuckihopeyougetcanceranddie
asciilifeform: $ gpg --verify florianweimer-general.asc
asciilifeform: $ gpg --verify florianweimer.txt.asc
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)
asciilifeform: it was made, almost certainly, by 'some guy' and injection molding co$$$$$$ts.
phf: nah, at $200 price <body style="margin: 0px"><img style="-webkit-user-select:none; display:block; margin:auto;" src="http://www.swissmicros.com/photos_nov2012/DM-41_pouch+back_large.png"></body>
asciilifeform: mats: frustrating, ikr? there's maybe $2 worth of material in there.
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 02:57:05; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-09-2015#1262290 << yours for $15 (pdf though) https://dl.acm.org/purchase.cfm?id=363827&CFID=542942868&CFTOKEN=64707750
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-09-2015#1262290 << yours for $15 (pdf though) https://dl.acm.org/purchase.cfm?id=363827&CFID=542942868&CFTOKEN=64707750 ☝︎☟︎
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. "
asciilifeform: their 'don't count' works in the same way as in all times and places. kennedies can gf after gf, and no one indicts, corzine et al can steal $maxint, etc.
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phf: $350
jurov: pete_dushenski mats $genericreassurance $coinbrcomingbacksoon $sorryforinconvenience
pete_dushenski: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3218027/Place-order-iPad-pick-giant-vending-machine-fully-automated-restaurant-opens-San-Francisco-sells-superfood-Quinoa.html << take that, $15 min wageists
fluffypony: when I was there in November I got a prepaid SIM from T-Mobile for $80 for a month
fluffypony: and that costs ~$112 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 )
deedbot-: [Qntra] Peoria Pays $125,000 in Satire Settlement - http://qntra.net/2015/09/peoria-pays-125000-in-satire-settlement/
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>')?
asciilifeform: same 'people' who put green paint on cd to 'improve sound', and buy $50k cabling ?
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
asciilifeform: $ sha512sum derive_and_more.img.gz
asciilifeform: (at a few $mil a pop)
jurov: $ machinectl shell
mircea_popescu: "yes, the forever anal love of your mom's worth well over $10k!"