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Adlai: the XX
% figure just goes to show that personhood is a little beyond biology
mircea_popescu: and if as far as we know it might as well not, that makes 84
% or w/e comparisons untenable. irrespective of what may or may not be the case.
mircea_popescu: in any case, claiming a z80 and a pentium 6 are "99.84
% identical" on the grounds of mass spectrometry is about as apt.
assbot: Logged on 08-05-2015 15:36:17; gabriel_laddel: Apparently chimpanzees share ~99
% of our DNA and dogs ~84
% mircea_popescu: think about it this way : if you reverse 5, out of thousands, but not randomly picked, you can now install on what, 1
% of the base ? 10
% ?
decimation: note that 20
% hurts someone making $100k way more than 30
% hurt someone making $3 mil
decimation: the top 20
% pay 20
% tax rate, and the top 1
% pay 29
% decimation: asciilifeform: his remedy: "For starters, (1) Get absolute rid of all tax advantages for setting up ‘Family Foundations’ and ‘Blind Charitable Trusts’ and all that BS. GET COMPLETE RID OF ALL SUCH STRUCTURES. (2) Giant wealth-tax – like 95
% flat garnishment – on all net-worth above, say, $10 million.Then let’s just see how many Richie Progressives (not to mention Warren Buffets) of the world go around in the media
assbot: BitBet - Phuctor will find a bad key :: 0.02 B (2
%) on Yes, 1.08 B (98
%) on No | closing in 1 week 1 day| weight: 94`192 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1IjOLuk )
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah. wouldn't want random dude in a band that drinks too much read that and with his usual superficial comprehension skills decide 1
% of keys are broken or some similar shit.
assbot: BitBet - Phuctor will find a bad key :: 0 B (50
%) on Yes, 0 B (50
%) on No | closing in 1 week 1 day| weight: 99`996 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1JsBVH9 )
pete_dushenski: zynga lays off 364 people, loses a penny a share, stock up 7
%. farmville bringing in 1/4 what is was 2 years ago.
nubbins`: meanwhile here in twodogland, HST just went up 2
% pete_dushenski: ndp = boost corporate taxes from 10 to 12
%, increase min. wage to $15/hr, 12
% tax rate on income between $125,000 to $150,000; 13
% on income between $150,000 to $200,000; 14
% between $200,000 and $300,000 and 15
% over $300,000, all up from 10
% flat provincial tax
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this was 98
% of mr mold's theme
assbot: Logged on 06-05-2015 16:29:14; ben_vulpes: | | | | ->08.68
% (67,108,864B) 0x470070: ThreadGetMyExternalIP(void*) (net.cpp:379) << that this is a thing cracks me up
ben_vulpes: | | | | ->08.68
% (67,108,864B) 0x470070: ThreadGetMyExternalIP(void*) (net.cpp:379) << that this is a thing cracks me up
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Hire diverse Googlers: In the past, our university-focused hiring programs have relied heavily on a relatively small number of schools. But, we know those schools aren't always the most diverse. For example, while 14
% of Hispanic college enrollment is at 4-year schools, Hispanics make up just 7
% at the 200 most selective schools. In the past two years, we've doubled the number of schools where we recruit, to promote s
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how you people can even live in a 100
% pencilneck atmosphere.
decimation: "2. All police assets from Baltimore City and surrounding municipalities were concentrated in three zones, leaving over 95
% of Baltimore City and Baltimore County without police protection."
williamdunne: Although I've normally found that most web-frameworks fuckup at 10-15
% load
mircea_popescu: but whatever, horowitz can pay. they can push back and forth the same million in qe, taxes, fines, donations, govt contracting and whatever until they fall over. every 1000 times they do it, the "gdp" goes up by 0.0001
% or w/e
lobbes: not sure how you'd measure black market economic activity, but this article claims 25
% of Mexican GDP is such:
ascii_field: 120309 (pogo, fired up ~2hr ago, currently ~50
% ram used)
cazalla: AU slashed interest rates to 2.0
%, lowest on record, gotta juice the housing market a bit more i guess
livegnik: I'm finishing up some things atm, and will then go catch some rest. My IRC server is up 99
% of the time (the missing 1
% was yesterday), so I'll be back in here :)
ascii_field: memory footprint climbs very, very slowly. as far as i can tell, thus far, this is 100
% due to fragging
decimation: they admitted that they are around 40
% 'original'
mircea_popescu: Revenues for the full year of 2014 increased 16
% over 2013.
mircea_popescu: "a total of 15,495 accounts were identified as having premium FetLife memberships” and that “Male doms make up far and away the largest proportion of FetLife’s [paying] customer base, accounting for 3,452 (22.28
%) of the total customer accounts identified."
mircea_popescu: (and so is bitcoin-otc.com's. these together make probably 90
%+ of our inbound links atm)
mircea_popescu: and an actual software environment is exactly that : a. people doing jobs 100
% and b) documenting this process 100
%.
lobbes: <bagels7> I stay away from men in general. << you spend time in this channel though. About 95
% men from what I guess
Pierre_Rochard: for example you’re a 90
% owner of a subsidiary in mexico, etc
Pierre_Rochard: I don’t… gaap or non-gaap depends 90
% on the user, 10
% on the software - the software is at 11
% pete_dushenski: losing my account and losing 20
% of your share price just a month later? hmm, twitter, very hmm.
mircea_popescu: listen, seeing how it's using about 10
% of what it could... throtle it ?
mircea_popescu: how did "worst case" interest group get to lose 70
% so that "best case" interest group can gain 6
% ? clearly this was enforced by an opressive, chauvinistic patriarchy which, to bother an irigarayism, "favours the speed of light over other speeds that are much more important to us".
mats: o nvm it fell below 20
% at some point
mats: might be 19
% pre market
mats: ouch, TWTR falls 15
% williamdunne: If you acknowledge La Serenissima are you its slavegirl because you pay 0.1
%?
williamdunne: What if someone else pays for a degree and in return they get a
% of my salary?
Adlai actually spend the alcohols chatting with a dark-skinned lady who was 100
% coherent despite also partaking of alcohols
mike_c: this HYIP sounds awesome. put me down for 500
% of it.
williamdunne: The operator, its not like they're selling 40
% of £40,000/year, they're selling 40
% of whatever they make, with no guarantees of said figure
williamdunne: Yeah, don't let them sell 500
% of their income
assbot: Logged on 28-04-2015 16:33:22; williamdunne: i.e I sell 40
% of all my future income for xx btc today
trinque: I agree 100
% that "canonical" as the outside world is made to see it should not be a git repo
williamdunne: i.e I sell 40
% of all my future income for xx btc today
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what's really funny to me is that there's a "social media site", with 3-4mn claimed "users". out of these 3-4mn, if 1
% are actually there you're lucky, and out of those 1
% if anothyer 1
% is even vaguely worth the mention you're ahead of the curve.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Josh Hamilton: great but not-elite baseball player relapsed into his booze and blow habit. Started sucking at baseball right after Los Angles's other baseball team signed him for 125 million dollars over 5 years. They are trading him to Texas and eating 90
% of the remaining payroll.
nubbins`: asciilifeform after looking at some solder paste press setups, yeah, you could 100
% do this in my basement
mircea_popescu: what was it, 1
% of world pop owns 50
% of assets or what ?
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:34:06; mircea_popescu: seems nuts. 1
% of new price if used ?