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mircea_popescu: "What if the federal government handed you a check for $1,000? Would that go to that new pair of shoes you've had your eye on? Dinner for the family? Credit card bills? The possibilities are endless."
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 04:17:02; decimation: heh EUR/USD fell to $1.08 from $1.10
nubbins`: "will effectively remove white and yellow mastic and even black asbestos mastic for as low as $.11 per square foot with absolutely no odor and minimal efforts"
decimation: heh EUR/USD fell to $1.08 from $1.10 ☟︎
decimation: so at 20% rate, usg pays $3.6 trillion in interest per year. current annual tax revenue is $3.1 trillion
decimation: not only will usg be paying all of its tax revenue to debtors, the fed's $4.5 trillion worth of 3% mortgages won't look so good
asciilifeform: implies the price going from reasonable to $maxint overnight, or the like
mircea_popescu: $ curl -IL http://trilema.com/wp-content/themes/trilema/trilema_credits.php | more
asciilifeform: trinque: if you don't understand that this costs ~$trillion and requires a sovereign country in your pocket, you have not thought the matter through.
[]bot: Bet placed: 10 BTC for No on "The Winkdex: BTC $5000 or more in 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1104/ Odds: 12(Y):88(N) by coin, 12(Y):88(N) by weight. Total bet: 83.1718 BTC. Current weight: 84,321.
thestringpuller: "The total amount of United States Currency seized from the stops is: $13,647,160" << they just want new toys
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 21:40:01; mike_c: $5 / month is rich?
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 19(Y):81(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 89.8305122 BTC. Current weight: 72,075.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $150 before April" http://bitbet.us/bet/1123/ Odds: 9(Y):91(N) by coin, 10(Y):90(N) by weight. Total bet: 28.65000237 BTC. Current weight: 68,632.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 20(Y):80(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 84.8305122 BTC. Current weight: 72,110.
felipelalli: danielpbarron: it isn't $ 10, it was just an exaggeration. I guess I have more than $ 100 there.
danielpbarron: or else every "homo reddicus" with $10 will end up spamming the orderbook
felipelalli: that would be great. But $5 / mo worth it, I thought it was more expensive, don't know why. I'll continue to pay that even without big investments yet.
thestringpuller: LOL $10 in assets
jurov: it's what you do with fiat assets? to ask broker to manage $10 woth of them?
danielpbarron: lol @ $10 in assets
felipelalli: well, if I buy like $10 in assets, if I pay $5 / month I am making a bad deal, right?
mike_c: $5 / month is rich? ☟︎
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: for an american gasenwagen, it is theoretically enough that you moved $int from your bank account to a known btc exchange at some point
asciilifeform: mike_c: i still don't get why somebody buying a parcel of $maxint btc would affect the price on, e.g., 'btc-e'
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 20(Y):80(N) by coin, 20(Y):80(N) by weight. Total bet: 83.3305122 BTC. Current weight: 72,525.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.02 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 19(Y):81(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 82.3305122 BTC. Current weight: 72,680.
[]bot: Bet placed: 15.19171 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 18(Y):82(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 81.3105122 BTC. Current weight: 72,803.
mircea_popescu: Because it is endangered and endemic to the area, development projects have been restricted to preserve its habitat. For example, the Dickey-Lincoln dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on the upper Saint John River in 1974, was deauthorized by Congress in 1986 after years of study, because the dam would have flooded 88,000 acres (360 km2) of Maine forest and severely reduced the lousewort's habitat. Some
mircea_popescu: "pay $50 to watch pvt 1st class joshua cooper learn to give oral pleasure to Berg, the great dane"
decimation: 50 cal rounds go for like $5
asciilifeform: or whatever $machine
asciilifeform: i.e., it no longer means 'where you go to trade money for $goodies' but just 'place you go to dump excess money'
BingoBoingo: Mosin also at $150/piece also solves http://trilema.com/2015/strategy-for-the-antisocial-struggle/ for body/vehicle armor
[]bot: Bet placed: 5.03285372 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 22(Y):78(N) by coin, 21(Y):79(N) by weight. Total bet: 66.0688022 BTC. Current weight: 73,586.
asciilifeform: say, you are in the habit of selling $gizmos for btc
sjsqd: because I tried to buy $50 USD worth of bitcoin
pete_dushenski: a $100 linux laptop does the trick
adlai guesses that $censored_guild has set the bar rather low...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: by $american_megacorp
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, today at $censored_firm we were suddenly excited to learn that a very, very costly $censored_guild_professional will accept a document via 'pgp'... only to learn that he was speaking of a 100%-proprietary turdware
BingoBoingo: But M$ in particular hit the same issues that sent Apple away "Red Ring of Death"
mircea_popescu: Subject: Programmer | Designer | Coder @ $599/month onwards From: "Patricia Jones" <patricia@resourceonhire.com>
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.08750005 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin above MtGox $266 high 2 years on" http://bitbet.us/bet/1126/ Odds: 99(Y):1(N) by coin, 99(Y):1(N) by weight. Total bet: 3.23750005 BTC. Current weight: 99,991.
[]bot: Bet created: "Bitcoin above MtGox $266 high 2 years on" http://bitbet.us/bet/1126/
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.51 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $413 before Songkran" http://bitbet.us/bet/1122/ Odds: 27(Y):73(N) by coin, 26(Y):74(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.93804235 BTC. Current weight: 80,040.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.0217 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 24(Y):76(N) by coin, 23(Y):77(N) by weight. Total bet: 61.03594848 BTC. Current weight: 75,760.
[]bot: Bet placed: 8 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 23(Y):77(N) by coin, 22(Y):78(N) by weight. Total bet: 60.01424848 BTC. Current weight: 76,142.
mircea_popescu: "One of the hottest venture capital investment ideas–bankrolling office-supply discount chains–is starting to sour. In the past two years, investors poured nearly $200 million into at least 16 office-supply “supermarket” chains. But today, the flood of entrants threatens a market-share war, and the result may be hard times."
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.07888891 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 26(Y):74(N) by coin, 25(Y):75(N) by weight. Total bet: 52.01424848 BTC. Current weight: 76,629.
[]bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 27(Y):73(N) by coin, 25(Y):75(N) by weight. Total bet: 50.93535957 BTC. Current weight: 76,696.
decimation: what about $bil's of bezzle? that helps too
[]bot: Bet placed: 2.495 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 22(Y):78(N) by coin, 21(Y):79(N) by weight. Total bet: 47.34535957 BTC. Current weight: 77,360.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5.17037452 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 17(Y):83(N) by weight. Total bet: 44.85035957 BTC. Current weight: 78,445.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.81067348 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $100 before April" http://bitbet.us/bet/1108/ Odds: 7(Y):93(N) by coin, 10(Y):90(N) by weight. Total bet: 28.66774984 BTC. Current weight: 28,886.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 20(Y):80(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 39.67998505 BTC. Current weight: 78,504.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5.00000001 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 14(Y):86(N) by coin, 14(Y):86(N) by weight. Total bet: 37.18598505 BTC. Current weight: 78,685.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "BTC to top $450 before 31st Mar" http://bitbet.us/bet/1113/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 17.97550202 BTC. Current weight: 37,170.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $100 before April" http://bitbet.us/bet/1108/ Odds: 7(Y):93(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 26.43707636 BTC. Current weight: 29,196.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 16(Y):84(N) by weight. Total bet: 32.18598504 BTC. Current weight: 78,786.
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.03030303 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 16(Y):84(N) by weight. Total bet: 32.18598504 BTC. Current weight: 78,786.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for No on "BTC to top $413 before Songkran" http://bitbet.us/bet/1122/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 16(Y):84(N) by weight. Total bet: 10.42804235 BTC. Current weight: 83,974.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2.02020202 BTC for No on "BTC to top $450 before 31st Mar" http://bitbet.us/bet/1113/ Odds: 18(Y):82(N) by coin, 16(Y):84(N) by weight. Total bet: 15.97550202 BTC. Current weight: 37,192.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.12804235 BTC for No on "BTC to top $413 before Songkran" http://bitbet.us/bet/1122/ Odds: 32(Y):68(N) by coin, 29(Y):71(N) by weight. Total bet: 5.42804235 BTC. Current weight: 84,000.
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.22448973 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 20(Y):80(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 27.15568201 BTC. Current weight: 78,806.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $413 before Songkran" http://bitbet.us/bet/1122/ Odds: 40(Y):60(N) by coin, 36(Y):64(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.3 BTC. Current weight: 84,017.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for Yes on "BTC to top $450 before 31st Mar" http://bitbet.us/bet/1113/ Odds: 21(Y):79(N) by coin, 17(Y):83(N) by weight. Total bet: 13.9553 BTC. Current weight: 37,208.
ben_vulpes: yes well do away with the $maxint vehicle cert process, $maxint operator training...
ben_vulpes: you're familiar i'm sure with the near-disposable cessna's thrown over america's southern border, stuffed to the gills with $substance?
ben_vulpes: $thing
asciilifeform: but just such a battery could make the difference between an unmanned flying machine that can deliver $thing between point a and b, say
assbot: Bitcoin Company Coinbase Raising New Investment at $400 Million Valuation | Re/code ... ( http://bit.ly/1AZ4Wap )
jurov: For D.CBSE long investment to be even, it needs "only" $46m IPO or buyout
jurov: The total raised by Coinbase has now hit $106 million. Coinbase, a San Francisco-based company reports that there are 2.1 million bitcoin wallets from a customer base of 1.9 million
assbot: NYSE, USAA and BBVA Make $75M Coinbase Investment | PYMNTS.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1M0S1I6 )
ben_vulpes: there's no reason why these things should cost $MAXINT, aside from the prohibition on owning the constituent materials for any not favorite son.
mircea_popescu: "Alum and current fellows have produced more than $100 million in economic activity including investments, exits, revenue, and grants. "
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are the only folks for whom there isn't already $maxint in handouts
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but what if your work is meaningless without $b synchrophasotron ? <<< i thought it was 50k.
asciilifeform: it is also not entirely clear to me where the 'better men' are to get the $b
asciilifeform: but what if your work is meaningless without $b synchrophasotron ?
asciilifeform: because don't need, at least for most of that list, $maxint
asciilifeform: except if the difference only becomes palpable a few $b and decades later, it does't really exist to the naked eye
asciilifeform: which takes a few $b in imperial money
asciilifeform: synthetic crystal of two chiral isomers of $censored that would have, according to the model, very small difference in energy of phase change
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $150 before April" http://bitbet.us/bet/1123/ Odds: 9(Y):91(N) by coin, 10(Y):90(N) by weight. Total bet: 25.00350855 BTC. Current weight: 83,568.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 00:04:30; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: to round off the earlier thread, house will be confiscated a) ahead of schedule, if you get lucky b) when your local real estate racket's ability to crank out drywall, pour cement, assemble the thing is outpaced by, e.g., flood of $refugees from $pisshole who 'deserve' your house and your neighbour's
asciilifeform: who's gonna pay the $25K that thing will - inevitably - cost ?
gabriel_laddel: (I have a $300 compaq that I prefer to any apple crapware - same one as MP iirc)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: to round off the earlier thread, house will be confiscated a) ahead of schedule, if you get lucky b) when your local real estate racket's ability to crank out drywall, pour cement, assemble the thing is outpaced by, e.g., flood of $refugees from $pisshole who 'deserve' your house and your neighbour's ☟︎
asciilifeform: get the budget high enough without making secrecy impossible << this is right back to the 64-quadrillion-bzollar question. the dept-of-breaking-pgp gets $maxint and remains totally secret - not to say that they've succeeded or even tried, but we have no idea how much cocaine they were able to buy with the $maxint, nor the carat purity of the gold of which their toilets were made
asciilifeform did not see the film, but will say that he could probably produce a 'snowden' film with an arbitrarily high degree of 'truthiness' given a few $10M-usd
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 00:51:31; mike_c: ^ 200 satoshis is worth less than an ad view at $2 cpm
mike_c: ^ 200 satoshis is worth less than an ad view at $2 cpm ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: "Well did you get the $50?"
gabriel_laddel: The daughters Schwartz were walking home, and see a sign "Become Catholic, receive $50"
asciilifeform: the sucker bait's $0
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I checked. No sub $31 BTC to be had today
[]bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $150 before April" http://bitbet.us/bet/1123/ Odds: 9(Y):91(N) by coin, 10(Y):90(N) by weight. Total bet: 24.00350855 BTC. Current weight: 87,048.
[]bot: Bet placed: 4 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $150 before April" http://bitbet.us/bet/1123/ Odds: 9(Y):91(N) by coin, 10(Y):90(N) by weight. Total bet: 24.00350855 BTC. Current weight: 87,048.