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assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin main net block size to increase in 2015 :: 3.84 B (13
%) on Yes, 26.68 B (87
%) on No | closing in 2 months 2 weeks | weight: 24`943 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1MUlaZd )
mircea_popescu: it is rare, yes. look at the normal distribution, between say 88 and maybe 75 you get what, 4
% of the population ?
mircea_popescu: rather than the 99.94
% his piece of shit "ventures" are currently.
mircea_popescu: he's so hyperfucktarded, he's only going to be 50
% behind actual entrepreneurs.
mircea_popescu: "Some examples will make this clear. Suppose your company is making $1000 a month now, and you've made something so great that it's growing at 5
% a week. Two years from now, you'll be making about $160k a month.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "currently compromise a bit more than 50
%" << comprise ?
mircea_popescu: (and yet he should be - in practical terms a population that spends x on sheltering women and x on sheltering men will fare ~35
% worse than a population that just spends 2x on sheltering men. because women are for many reasos much much harider)
mats: curiously, INTC took a ~10
% dive in the two weeks following the publication of 'Intel Subsidiary Agrees to 750k Penalty for Unauthorized Encryption Exports'
assbot: BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 101.09 B (98
%) on Yes, 1.54 B (2
%) on No | closing in 10 months 1 week| weight: 98`932 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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assbot: Bitfury joins Chinese pools and backs BIP100, nearly 50
% of hashing power is now publicly backing BIP100 : Bitcoin ... (
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assbot: BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 101.09 B (98
%) on Yes, 1.54 B (2
%) on No | closing in 10 months 1 week| weight: 98`985 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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mircea_popescu: anyway. at least in romania's 90s, the life of a young theoretical physicist was ~90
% derive and the rest chicken scribblings of the kind you mention.
mircea_popescu: mike_c honestly i suspek your intuition is certainly correct. more money to be made teaching this than 90
% of the stuff taught online. "be a better you" or w/e.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under $190 before September :: 2.52 B (4
%) on Yes, 62.36 B (96
%) on No | closed 2 weeks 1 hour ago ... (
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mike_c: of course, i'm wrong at least 50
% of the time. anyhoo, I like the list :)
phf: like ruby gems, famous for having a fashionable veneer ("we do DSL like lisp!") and horrible buggy 80
% code
mircea_popescu: "MegaIndex - powerfull analytics tool which allows to get comprehensive report about web-site's incoming and outgoing links." <, in other news, i am persuaded 50
% or more of webtrafic is meta.
assbot: BitBet - Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) to drop below 14,000 before 18th September :: 1.48 B (14
%) on Yes, 8.9 B (86
%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 3 hours | weight: 59`576 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under $190 before September :: 2.52 B (4
%) on Yes, 62.36 B (96
%) on No | closed 1 week 6 days ago ... (
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PeterL: my US stock investments have recently lost everything they gained since January, big old 0
% increase on the year now
jurov: cuz otherwise "$#@$
% it ate my attachmetns, dun wanna such mutilation"
BU769XX_dIQ: x
%fail, is not that written into the (rules)
trinque: you join the MMM and you make 100
% assbot: BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 100.09 B (99
%) on Yes, 1.01 B (1
%) on No | closing in 10 months 1 week| weight: 99`855 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1hUaTkm )
mircea_popescu: pretty amusing how on some basic demographics, all the various groups doing various "better bitcoins" come out drastically in support of bitcoin-xt. it'd seem the people who agree bitcoin needs "improvement" is 80
% the people who already agreed with this, unsuccessfully.
assbot: BitBet - Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) to drop below 14,000 before 18th September :: 1.44 B (18
%) on Yes, 6.4 B (82
%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 1 day| weight: 63`773 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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assbot: BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 100.09 B (100
%) on Yes, 0.01 B (0
%) on No | closing in 10 months 1 week| weight: 99`986 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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mircea_popescu: b) you farm these and let them age, what's the big deal. 99
% of all social media accounts are registered for the purpose of aging and then be used in a scam exactly like is contemplated here.
mircea_popescu: which is how 99
% of these "fake fine art" arguments are settled - no eggyolk in the pigment or shit
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 15:19:42; BingoBoingo: Not even wrong: "However, the question of whether miners and pools will support that increase in the form of XT, a fork of Bitcoin Core, remains. It currently has 13.7
% of bitcoin's hashing power behind it." <<
https://archive.is/41s4u mircea_popescu: the only thing that matters re propaganda is whether it gets repeated. that's 100
% of it.
mircea_popescu: i think it was even under 80
% at some point this millenium.
BingoBoingo: Not even wrong: "However, the question of whether miners and pools will support that increase in the form of XT, a fork of Bitcoin Core, remains. It currently has 13.7
% of bitcoin's hashing power behind it." <<
https://archive.is/41s4u ☟︎ mircea_popescu: for as long as there's even the faintest hope of maybe one day scamming someone, every last human being is 100
% jwz.
mats: 95
% of sappers i ever talked to performed missions just like this
mircea_popescu: by far. as even one inch off... you lose 97
% or so of power
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what's 50
% of the conversation in my household for the first x months of the life of a new girl anyway
mircea_popescu: this because "the people" have no proper function in government, and unlike the aspie 14
%, the people know this well enough.
mircea_popescu: modern ro is kinda what the us aspires to be. and at the point where that happened, about 3
%.
mircea_popescu: if the odds for a policeman being answered with bullets are ~0
%, there can be a country.
mats: correction, FB: -4.98
% mats: YHOO: -3.10
%, TSLA: -5.12
%, BABA: -3.83
%, AMZN: -3.22
%, AAPL: -2.05
%, BOX: -2.31
%, FB: -.98
%, SCTY: -4.47
%, ZNGA: -2.33
%, GOOG: -2.13
% kakobrekla: BingoBoingo yeah i wasnt clear, 75
% over 1k blocks which is 1 week + 2week 'grace' period
BingoBoingo: <kakobrekla> afaik you need 75
% +2week for switch to work << 75
% for just 1 week. Decides to fuck off faster than difficulty decides between anal and blow job.
mike_c: in the meantime, everyone sane forks their coins, dumps the scam coin, and now the 60
% miners are mining worthless coins.
kakobrekla: afaik you need 75
% +2week for switch to work
mike_c: majority of miners = 60
%? Then 40
% of miners stay on bitcoin and blocks take.. 25 minutes?
mircea_popescu: there might have been some hookers working the cream off the top, those 1-2
% oif males that finally got the nerve together to actually GASP!~1 meet someone after 10 or so years of derping around on the site.
BingoBoingo: Last week on KMOX Illinois DepAg was talking about a fall of 15
% over last year's crop, but shit looks to have started dying really fast
jurov: even if you do something innocent like printf("
%d", sizeof(stuff))
ascii_field: chetty: i will have you know that all of my works are 100
% hatred-for-usg powered.
mats: oh. well, she asked another employee for help, so i'm almost 100
% sure it wasn't a play.
punkman: "As part of the deal, BoC absorbed the loans and insured deposits of Laiki, formerly the second-biggest bank, after its uninsured deposits had been comprehensively bailed in. The new bank was then recapitalised by converting 47.5
% of BoC’s uninsured deposits into equity."
punkman: I bet some russians lost 80
% mircea_popescu: oh. yeah, but quickly diminshing returns. something like 86-88
% is probably right.
mircea_popescu: they're still negotiating it, obviously, which is why the rule. but i doubt it'll be under 70
%.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "5 points 86
% upvoted" ... how does this work ?