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ith: And isn't the 0.25
% yearly? What happened to get it switched to monthly?
ith: When did it get raised up from 0.25
%? (whatever bond interest rate that is, which was previously 0
%)
BingoBoingo: ith: Current interest rate is 33.8
% monthly
assbot: BitBet - Luke Skywalker Turns To The Dark Side In Episode VII :: 1.61 B (81
%) on Yes, 0.37 B (19
%) on No | closed 2 weeks 6 days ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1kmUAwY )
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: i've only ever had one fast car, and it grated on my nerves 98
% of the time as 98
% of my driving is under 60 kph.
mircea_popescu:
% Total
% Received
% Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
kakobrekla: allocate 1
% of the blockchain size and you are good for many years.
mircea_popescu: cat fucksticks.txt | sort -u | while read line; do curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0" --cookie "session=185406475447611750
%3a13562327112394530656;secure_check=1;authlink=8e9808c6;__cfduid=de2158114156a0b38260969e145b2ca9e1450046931" "
https://www.okcupid.com/profile/$line" | sed 's/profile_similar/\n\n/g' | sed 's/href/\n\n/g' | grep 'cf=' | grep "/profile/" | sed 's/="\
mircea_popescu: check it out, "engagement" went up by 9
% / 1.59 mn in one quarter.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:24:21; mircea_popescu: trinque the fed mostly owns privately issued paper anyway. mostly bond bundles, but most of them are tied to stocks (via banks) so in point of fact the fed owns atm ~118-122
% or so of the entire us economy
mircea_popescu: "Why did we launch with 12 million variants? Because we thought we needed to. Would the market have been happy to customise just the length? If we’d done proper validation, we would have known, that yes, it would have been happy — thrilled even. It only became apparent, too late, that 90
% of our orders were for very typical jeans from atypically tall women. Stonewashed stovepipes with a 36-inch leg, anyone?"
mircea_popescu: "We hired a local operations manager in Denver (Sasha Juliard) and soon launched at Shotgun Willie’s (the highest-grossing strip club in CO) and two other bars. We made about $1,200 on each deal (50
% went to DexOne, we spent $800 on each launch event and we had $500 in hardware costs), this was the only sales revenue Flowtab ever made. We were tightening up our sales process, but it was hard to market ourselves prope
☟︎ jurov: which purpose is still not 100
% clear to me, seems an inventory what we're going to relay to whom
mircea_popescu: mod6 in fairness 99
% of tribulation was because i wasn't using 99997
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that style of presumption is 150
% of what's wrong with foss.
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 18:50:08; mircea_popescu: it's just that at some point some
% of gdp went into researching pewter alloys and making dumbass candlesticks and now it doesn't.
pete_dushenski: 86
% of respondents: "No, I have never heard before that fossil fuels can cool area - it all needs looking at again."
jurov: still, if it really was big
% of population, the outcome would look like after wave of pestilence&co, which it did not
jurov: but they *did not* have million-armies. just gathered few thousands of derps, maybe 1
% of pop... that could not have made a dent in gdp
jurov: i suspect it isn't the case. let's say in middle ages 95
% was the agriculture and 5
% the religion ... and now the 5
% remains under whatever guises (new age, dianetics, angelology, you name it) just the 95
% moved on
mircea_popescu: it's just that at some point some
% of gdp went into researching pewter alloys and making dumbass candlesticks and now it doesn't.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just pointing out that you know, "here's prb showing 35
% (of 40
% of the actual network)". which happens to be exactly the mtgox approach to lyf.
ben_vulpes: funny, it's like 90
% of why i'm even here
pete_dushenski: even without the internet, you'd figure that there would still be huge swathes of the population (those with brains, pen, and paper) that can figure out that "10
% inflation" shouldn't yield a doubling in food prices every 3 years, as we've essentially seen in the last 3 years with only a reported inflation of "under 2
%"
pete_dushenski: i'd be curious to know (and so will endeavour to find out) if there were as many people calling "bullshit" in the late 70s and early 80s when reported inflation was ~10
% and loan rates for cars and houses were 20-25
% mircea_popescu: what, we only 0.01
% of the engineers we need, why not make it 0.00001
% ?
assbot: Logged on 20-12-2015 12:08:09; mircea_popescu: 100
%[======================================>] 11,536,384 3.06M/s in 3.6s
mircea_popescu: 100
%[======================================>] 11,536,384 3.06M/s in 3.6s
☟︎ punkman: "Possible optimistic conclusion: the new definition of “improved” is going from 34
% to 21
% success rate. Long (and painfully) live improvements!" lol
jurov: i'm completely fine with 70
% - filled hashtable
mircea_popescu: 98.x
% of my contribution as far as fucking up my own tech dept goes to date has been variations of "STOP WITH THE DAMNED CODE" and such.
assbot: luke-jr comments on Could a cartel of pool operators collude to 51
%-attack the blockchain and/or change the protocol? ... (
http://bit.ly/1NDI98l )
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 16:19:23; PeterL: would have worked if housing prices hadn't dropped 75
% where I lived
PeterL: but 100
% savings would have no loi
pete_dushenski: and a 'decent sized portfolio' can be easily 100
% savings
liquidassets: once you go above 4 you're in commercial category, need like 20
% down at least, harder to qualify
liquidassets: sure, about 1.1
% of assessed value where I live
PeterL: would have worked if housing prices hadn't dropped 75
% where I lived
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol wikipedia "Thus, non-recourse debt is typically limited to 50
% or 60
% loan-to-value ratios,"
punkman: your name is liquid assets and you want 50
% in real estate?
liquidassets: I'm calling smart money has a significant
% in cash
mircea_popescu: ing and everything else. The publisher got paid a 20
% commission." <<< put their dumbass widget on your site (so provide all the leads), use your own creatives (so provide all the work), be paid a 20
% COMISSION.
mircea_popescu: However these companies made their life without you, most probably for years." << the fundamental delusion of start-up-ers is that the market is free and efficient, and therefore there exist objective measures of worth. the sad reality of life in socialist states (ie, any state that acquires through any means any measure of control on 10
% of the production of the citizens or more) is that the market's distorted, and wh
mircea_popescu: (in other news, okcupid's "ai" matching system is an utter useless pos. my own network creates usable hits with a 50
% probability or better, by the 100s/day - and i didn't even KNOW i know chicks on okcupid in the first place. their crapolade made me click no about five hundred times in a row.)
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:27:41; asciilifeform: as in, not only did folks get $15k or whatever creditcard-level investment for, what, 20
% cut, but had to ~live~ in the compound
renart: just like ubuntu, totally adequate for 94
% of use cases, and entirely inadequate for the remaining 6
% mircea_popescu: "Women, white and black, who do not qualify for management, are usually not worth anything on the staff, and generally steal at about 20
%, with lower paid working black girls less than half as likely to steal as their management counterparts, and white girls on staff infinitely more larcenous than the white girls in management. I won’t even try and explain this, as it boggles my mind." it doesn't boggle my mind any.
mircea_popescu: "Black female managers are rarely effective and steal at 50
%—fully half of the ones I have worked with being confirmed thieves." << lioness hunting for the clan as opposed to the ball busting harpy gioving herself and everyone else aneurisms. makes sense, huh.
mircea_popescu: "White female managers usually end up with nervous breakdowns and are not as effective as men, but are 100
% loyal and never steal, ever. This is the backbone of any retail food staff, white chicks. Work her until she breaks and get another."
mircea_popescu: i would estimate liberalization takes the peso to 25ish. that's 30
% up not 40
% down.
mircea_popescu: should the damned thing liberalize the new price would be 1.1 bn dollars matching 10.5bn pesos, or roughly speaking... 10. a 40
% drop from it's black market rate of 16.
mircea_popescu: this means the farmers were paying 50
% tax on top of all the other taxes.
pete_dushenski: "Government spending accounts for 40
% of Tibet’s GDP, while 10-15
% is the more usual level for other provinces. In a cyclical sense this is beneficial, as Tibet is hardly feeling the current slowdown at all: it reported 9.8
% real GDP growth for the first three quarters of 2015. But the reason they’re not feeling the slowdown is that they didn’t have a real economy to begin with. It’s a bunch of civil servants
mircea_popescu: superstore. After 15 months of operations, we had approximately one order per day, generating on average £26 in revenue and supposedly 30
% in gross margin, but given the low volumes, we were losing money on every order."
punkman: 80
% of the people are gonna spend 20 minutes on my stupid questions!
mircea_popescu: "Brawker lets you order anything with #bitcoins and save up to 20
% anywhere online."
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 02:03:42; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, one time i separated 863 teenaged females into 10 groups of 5 tons each within a 1
% tolerance. the process consisted of me walking through the group and pointing. to my advantgage, they were lightly dressed. to my disadvantage it was night time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, one time i separated 863 teenaged females into 10 groups of 5 tons each within a 1
% tolerance. the process consisted of me walking through the group and pointing. to my advantgage, they were lightly dressed. to my disadvantage it was night time.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 20:48:04; ascii_field: ' Self-funded development via block subsidy - In order to have an ongoing source of funding for development work, a consensus rule has been added to allocate 10
% of each block subsidy to a development organization. This entity is transparent and responsible for funding development work performed by current and new developers so that the project remains sustainable without a funding dependence on outs
ascii_field: ' Self-funded development via block subsidy - In order to have an ongoing source of funding for development work, a consensus rule has been added to allocate 10
% of each block subsidy to a development organization. This entity is transparent and responsible for funding development work performed by current and new developers so that the project remains sustainable without a funding dependence on outside forces in the
☟︎ mircea_popescu: We started VATLER during the summer of 2014 as an on-demand valet service in San Francisco … We received a phone call from the police department telling us that our permits had not been granted and they gave us a warning because we were operating illegally in most of our locations…In 2 weeks, we lost major accounts and 30
% of our revenue streams without any perspective of growth. We tried to make some restaurants p
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 18:53:14; nubbins`: and if not, it's 100
% because of everyone else
mircea_popescu: also, seeing how InterActiveCorp ( NASDAQ: IACI ) consists of at least 10
% okcupid and claims total assets of 4bn, we can estimate the value of the bezzle! if 4k worth of okcupid is perhaps 10
% of the business self-valued at 4bn, then every dollar a us corporation owns is worth ~0.001 cents of actual, honest to god, turkey-buying dollars and 0.999 cents of pure bezzle.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, of those 2-300 people, should you have the curiosity to include a link strategically in your profile, you might discover that exactly... 0
%, as well as 0 per thousand actually click.
mircea_popescu: this is practically a straight advertising deal, and i have the numbers : out of the ~150-200k people onlione they claim perpetually, the 1-2 dollar thing buys you about 300 over an hour, so that's superficially 1.5-2 per thousand but i suspect might be as high as 10
% given that obviously, not everyone actually pays any attention to them.
assbot: Sergio Lerner: "1) I'm finalizing a BIP: A new Efficient Compact SPV Proof scheme. A chain of 2016 hdrs can be compressed into 10 hdrs, proving 50
% of work. / 2) This will be key piece for 2-way-peg system we (Rootstock) contribute to Bitcoin, via hard-fork. / 3) Yes, can also be soft-fork." : Bitco ... (
http://bit.ly/1QnQwei )
mircea_popescu: it's lead me to discover that i really don't give a shit. you gotta specify what "answers you'll accept" and 90
% i'm like... whatever.
ascii_field: 'A C++ module that generates maps procedurally is required for Eulora. In this first iteration, the idea of a "map" reduces to "a folded corridor 3 x 3 units in square section". Folding means that the corridor may curve however you please (provided it's continuous, contains no volumes smaller than 3x3 units and no inclines over 10
%) and run into itself (not necessarily at right angles).' << this is in SWAG !!!
nubbins`: and if not, it's 100
% because of everyone else
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:50:52; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1
% fee exists as a Schelling point mostl
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1
% fee exists as a Schelling point mostly due to BitBet's i
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 17:04:29; mircea_popescu: this is why dudes hang out with bitches (hey, she might not be pliable to me, but she sure as fuck ain't pliable to anyone else - so that's 50
%. spreading, works.)