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asciilifeform: these things deprecate on the 'usg pays maxint, scrap dealer pays 1%' formula.
mircea_popescu: seems nuts. 1% of new price if used ? ☟︎
ben_vulpes: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=cascadianhacker.com%2Findex.xml
mircea_popescu: mike_c also, could "Timestamp" space be about 75% larger so it doesn't force double lines ?
pete_dushenski: wow, even msft +10% today. nasdaqsanity.
mike_c: http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/nubbins%60/
pete_dushenski: +15%. whoa.
mats: https://developers.yubico.com/ykneo-openpgp/SecurityAdvisory%202015-04-14.html
assbot: 259 results for 'summary?' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=summary%3F
mircea_popescu: out of which, <1% are active to any reasonable degree.
mircea_popescu: basically, they claim 3mn users but from what i've seen it's < 1% eligible womenz, nominally
mircea_popescu: 15% of the 5gb is made up out of 568048645 instances of "if i sent this email to the wrong guy please pretend this never happened because my name is phantomcircuit" in 45734 threads.
lobbes: 'One trial found the chances of lung cancer increased by 18% while another showed an rise of 28%.'
RetroFeel: sorry english not 100%
ben_vulpes: 7% a week, i think
miaviator: Hell I wasn't 100% certain until the latest email leak. And i was digging from the inside.
williamdunne: "The defendant enters a plea to the charges brought by the U.S. attorney at a hearing known as an arraignment. Most defendants — more than 90% — plead guilty rather than go to trial. If a defendant pleads guilty in return for the government agreeing to drop certain charges or to recommend a lenient sentence, the agreement often is called a "plea bargain." If the defendant pleads guilty, the judge may
williamdunne: More than 90% of cases settle without going to court
mircea_popescu: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/80-percent-of-police-force-resigns-after-missouri-town-elects-first-african-american-mayor/ << what i want to know about this thing is, how the fuck do you cut an integer 80% out of 6.
mircea_popescu: so what, 3% of the people who know you would recommed you ? such win.
assbot: Barometru de criza : Doar 20% dintre romani ar refuza sa se dezbrace la interviul de angajare! on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1yL4zmt )
Citizenfive: https://grugq.github.io/presentations/COMSEC%20beyond%20encryption.pdf
Citizenfive: iirc there's something useful on the concept in herehttps://grugq.github.io/presentations/COMSEC%20beyond%20encryption.pdf
mircea_popescu: Citizenfive can you distinguish between the "words don't matter" position and (mutatis mutandins), the "BUT it is called the “Worldwide Web” so there really is NO chance of any site being 100% secure" ?
felipelalli: BingoBoingo: well, the Brazil is a very complicated country. We have like 60~70% of taxes, but our government is very corrupt and inefficient. So, the people try to avoid to pay taxes, but some taxes are impossible to avoid. As a reference, you can buy a new March (small car of Nissan) 1.6 here for US$ 13,000.00 and you can't import your old Saturn. Used car import is prohibited. Also, a negative point is the huge urban violence.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-04-2015#1102971 << s.mpoe is down what, 50% ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: (they get ~20% success rate on a value of about $1k per sucker suckered to settle with them)
danielpbarron: Bter's investment Plan is made for you! Trade or withdraw the invested BTC any time -- Receive the up to 10 % annualized return automatically
pete_dushenski: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Shaw%2c%20Bernard%2c%201856-1950 << a useful collection of some of shaw's better known plays
ascii_modem: consider - close to 100% of u.s. juridicial whatevers, have winblows in the loop
mircea_popescu: felipelalli the funny thing about english as used here is that it's not really familiar to about 90% of native english speakers either.
nubbins`: ascii_field your average bezzle cubicle dweller prob spends 25% of gross income on food
ascii_field: that is, the fact that he did not stick 100% to diddling the machines under cover of dark
nubbins`: 100% agreed
nubbins`: he 100% does not
nubbins`: great stuff, top kek. 25% discount on my home and car insurance. $500/year "wellness benefit" for new running shoes. full health and dental.
assbot: Logged on 13-04-2015 21:34:15; williamdunne: "Did you know that the average tax return so far for 2015 is $3,539! What would, or will, you do with that hard earned money the government so graciously returned to you after borrowing it at 0% interest?"
williamdunne: "Did you know that the average tax return so far for 2015 is $3,539! What would, or will, you do with that hard earned money the government so graciously returned to you after borrowing it at 0% interest?" ☟︎
nubbins`: now you're in the 0.1% :D
nubbins`: if you shut 'em down within a day of them failing inspection, you're the 1%
gribble: PHON.RO - Accident mortal Filipestii de Padure - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfsjy64XjV0>; SindromulGoaga.ro | Colectionez Sindromuri: <http://sindromulgoaga.ro/>; animale salbatice din romania.ppt - Editura EDU: <http://edituraedu.ro/didactice/clasa%20a%20II-a/Cunoasterea%20mediului/animale%20salbatice%20din%20romania.ppt>
pete_dushenski: "Toyota Venza volume peaked in the model’s first full year at 54,410 units. Two years later, in 2011, Venza sales slid 28%. Last year, U.S. Venza volume was barely more than half what it was in 2009." << oh hey look pete killed the venza with his cartoon drawings in 2011
mats: on Windows the common codecs formats means that 99% of users would be running a 32-bit version of both the video player and the codecs
mircea_popescu: decimation 5% each year, 100% in 4 five year plans, comrade!
assbot: The Great American Passport Myth: Why Just 3.5% Of Us Travel Overseas! | William D. Chalmers ... ( http://bit.ly/1ymYsVh )
asciilifeform: google's snapshot was 99+%, for them.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the jewish situation... oh gawd. at the time of the holocaust, the hasidim were arguably the most advanced troop in the world. certainly > 90% of jewry by cultural and intellectual weight, if 50% or so by mass. for all the squalor of the old manhattan, which is what eastern europe was, the place rocked.
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 11:58:20; mircea_popescu: if i were black in the us i would be fucking worried for my children. being ~10% of the population and >50% of the public discourse is how the hasidim suddenly disappeared from history.
asciilifeform: if the code is not plagiarized wholesale, this puts her above 99% of'em.
decimation: "So the sort of papers that are published in psychology, over 92% of them are, 'Oh, here's a hypothesis; I did an experiment; and I get support.' So that is a problem. Because it leads to people essentially data mining to find a result to find a result and then getting it published. "
decimation: "216 out of 1,226 Soldiers (19.0%) reported using hand-to-hand combat skills in at least one encounter. The Soldiers’ descriptions indicated that hand-to-hand combat occurred in a variety of tactical situations "
asciilifeform: virtually 100% envirowhinerism, 'solutions' for the turd world, or 'accomplishments' of the Officially Sad
trinque: I agree 100%
mats: http://recon.cx/2014/slides/Recon%202014%20Skochinsky.pdf intel me overview
gabriel_laddel: http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=so+sick+of+I+can%27t+even+begin+to+tell+all
assbot: 0 results for 'so sick of asciminerism I can't even begin to tell all' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=so+sick+of+asciminerism+I+can%27t+even+begin+to+tell+all
Chillum: with wake-up times that fast it can sleep over 99% of the time and scan every few seconds
mircea_popescu: or ask them what % they must maintain.
mircea_popescu: im not sure it's even 1%
asciilifeform: so, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZdeGe4yclnoJ:www.loper-os.org/%3Fp%3D388+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
asciilifeform: about 0.003 % is the fraction of the time i get something worth reading.
mircea_popescu: Chillum intel says your 0.003% figure actually very likely accurate.
Chillum: not everything is crap, about .003% is pretty good
asciilifeform: gramming in Java means a life of continual and unremitting pain. So I vowed I would never be a Java programmer, which pretty much shut me out of 90% of all software engineering jobs in the late 90's. This was OK since I was managing to put together a reasonably successful career as a researcher. But after Remote Agent I found myself more and more frustrated, and the opportunity to work at Google just happened to coincide with
mircea_popescu: besides, 2% response rate ? web advertising does a lot of fraud to come up to 0.1-0.3% CTR.
BingoBoingo: http://thebulletin.org/does-going-%E2%80%9C-grid%E2%80%9D-actually-help-climate8191 << I wonder if Tesla is going to market sane NiFe to homeowners or instead going to create the greatest national fire hazard in history. Basement is probably the worst place for a massive battery bank and lithium worst way to do it.
trinque: funkenstein_: that I get 100%
PeterL: so I started this week at Perrigo, the company stock jumped up 25%, therefore investors must like me, right?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it's not heritable but a weak indicator. and one of the prevailing theories is that it's kindled, ie, you could be fine but then you had to go stress it to all shit. 99% get ptsd, 1% actually gets schizo. << Kindling is the dominant theory among the credible people.
mircea_popescu: it's not heritable but a weak indicator. and one of the prevailing theories is that it's kindled, ie, you could be fine but then you had to go stress it to all shit. 99% get ptsd, 1% actually gets schizo.
BingoBoingo: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/10/reports-troubles-webster-u%E2%80%99s-branch-campus-thailand << “W.U.T. is an American university in name only,” Erickson wrote, adding that the top administrators there “do not know what a real American university education consists of, and have no interest in finding out." He questioned whether any of them went to a "real American university in the first place."
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mats: BitchX used to go down with %s%s%s%s
BingoBoingo: stunna: Well, Bitbet would be lower fee than a sportsbook (1%), just wondering if other money would come in to correct the odds.
ascii_field: http://www.ymeme.com/why-wolfram-%28mathematica%29-did-not-use-lisp.html << some detail of what
mircea_popescu: as a result of 1 and 2, 50% of people mining on B move, leaving it with 11% hash rate. the resulting 24% difference moves to pools, 90% of which are A's.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony let's see this. pool A has 25% of hash rate. pool B has 30% of hash rate. there's 45 other pools each with 1%.
fluffypony: it is in A's best interest to setup a new pool, C, and then DDoS B so that C's % of the hashrate grows
fluffypony: two mining pools that control 25% of the hashrate each, mining pool A and B
nubbins`: how they get the obsession, probably 99% of them couldn't tell you
mircea_popescu: Like many other African countries, Tanzania has made huge strides in expanding basic services like health and education. The primary school enrollment rate, for instance, is officially at 94%. But “unofficial” statistics suggest the quality of those services is often quite poor.
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mats: https://cansecwest.com/slides/2015/SCADASL%20-%20root%20via%20sms%20CanSec%20v4%20last.pptx
felipelalli: This made me remember this: https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Defending%20the%20Undefendable_2.pdf
mircea_popescu: spikes used to be reasonably frequent in the 80s in ro. but not major spikes, just, 5-10% sort of things. but then they upgraded the infrastructure and it no longer relies on its own inductance
nubbins`: %conference
mircea_popescu: as long as you shaved off the 95%, you've shaved.
mircea_popescu: give or take, but i'm not really crazy about the difference between 5% and 3% either way
mircea_popescu: their yearly total gross attained 1% of yearly expenditure in no year since 2001.
decimation: ^ actresses waiting tables/turning tricks now use 25% less water
pete_dushenski: buffett did what, 15% per annum over that period
pete_dushenski: to yield 50%+ that is
mircea_popescu: conceivably you have to make well over 50% per year to keep up with the bureaucracy inflation that always doubles paper money inflation in a command economy.
mircea_popescu: if your investmentrs aren't yielding 20% WHILE YOUR POLITICAL CLOUT IS YIELDING 20%!!!
pete_dushenski: so if your investments are yielding 20%... you're getting assfucked
mircea_popescu: that's a little over 20% per annum.
mircea_popescu: fact is, for the past half century, inflation was about 10`000% total.
pete_dushenski: which ties back into the earlier discussion about inflation being 15%, not 3%
ben_vulpes: http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=%21up+bagels7 << also lol dpb's got a crush
mircea_popescu: and i don't believe the man is anything but 100% honest.