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assbot: Families of victims killed, shot at 137 times by Cleveland Police to get $3 million - newsnet5.com Cleveland ... ( http://bit.ly/1p0en75 )
mircea_popescu: "Do you want riots in the streets? How much does it cost to prevent LA (or the city of your choice) from catching fire? Answer: $600/month/person, plus Medicaid. Medicalizing social problems has the additional benefit of rendering society not responsible for those social ills. If it's a disease, it's nobody's fault. Yay empiricism.
mircea_popescu: assbot: U.S. Should Quit $100 Bill to Stop N. Korea Counterfeiting <<< yeah, THAT is why they'll quit it lmao
assbot: U.S. Should Quit $100 Bill to Stop N. Korea Counterfeiting | TIME.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1EUhO10 )
asciilifeform: try buy $1b 'of them' and notice that most of the resulting 'ownership' is physically-inaccessible leveraged crud
asciilifeform: but the lizard who buys a $40m rembrandt is not a fool, he knows he can get $50 next year
assbot: Blockstream closes $21M seed round | Blockstream ... ( http://bit.ly/1qgDQdi )
punkman: "The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce it has received a $1,000,000 donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp. This marks the largest single donation to the Foundation since its inception almost 15 years ago"
mircea_popescu: Series A blocks consist of 2,000 coins and a deposit of $100,000 is required per bid entered on Series A. <<< 10%. ie, "MP was right".
mike_c: my $0.02 is I wouldn't re-rate without a good answer to that question.
BingoBoingo: $status
thestringpuller: $depth f.mpif
nubbins`: "Provincial budgeting has been off by an average of $800 million a year over the past seven years, largely due to inaccurate oil projections."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget' <<< what else is the 80/20 software engineering approach than "build 80% of a functional program out of 20% of the budget and then try to pretend like we're selling it for "half price" ?
asciilifeform: $widget-prime is normally some debased/inferior version
asciilifeform: well, the real boojum (as described, for example, by mircea_popescu) is that the optimization folks did not put the task as 'build $widget using less steel, rubber, hours of slave' but 'build $widget more bezzleprofitably' which usually leads to 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget'
asciilifeform: if $209k per year makes one a pauper << consider applying my ad hoc formula: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-10-2014#869923 ☝︎
decimation: right, and in a related point - if $209k per year makes one a pauper, how much is the real bitcoin foundation going to pay?
decimation: asciilifeform: actually many cops make near $200k with overtime
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe you can get a job at the 'bitcoin foundation' for $209k
mircea_popescu: until myserver; do echo "Server 'myserver' crashed with exit code $?. Respawning.." >&2 sleep 1 done ?
mircea_popescu: "Gavin Andresen's salary as the full time lead developer of the entire bitcoin protocol is $209k a year."
assbot: Coinbase Rumoured To Raise $50 Million Bezzlars, Down From $150 Million Bezzlars | Qntra.net
jurov: En ese fallo se responsabilizo por delitos comunes exclusivamente a la Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA) y se la condenó a pagar $450.000.- por un delito ocurrido en la vereda de la plaza donde se realizaba un acto.
mircea_popescu: $proxies
punkman: on another message he says he's spent $350k on Slickage
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski:"where's the $1.5mn funding for nanotube's WoT" << perhaps you don';t understand what "a protocol for decentralized and password-less authentication" means.
nubbins`: END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n$ or smth
TheNewDeal: I can just as easily be a fry cook at mcdonalds and change my $100 monthly profits to btc
pete_dushenski: i'd personally be quite interested to see what nanotube would do if given a free $1.5mn
assbot: Hey VCs, where's the $1.5mn funding for nanotube's WoT ? http://t.co/gdmiYpx1FA
pete_dushenski: then number $7mn is stuck in my mind but i can't dig up the article to confirm
pete_dushenski: so coinbase scored another $50 mn
mats_cd03: "The city spends $165 million a year on homeless services, about half of which funds supportive housing. That’s one of the highest levels of per-capita spending on homelessness of any city in the nation, said Philip Mangano, who served as the nation’s homeless czar under President Bush."
BingoBoingo: No, easy feel goods are $75 at the massage parlor down by the strip club
nubbins`: Easy Feel-Goods for sale, only $1.25
thestringpuller: $conference
The20YearIRCloud: Second kitchen photo is from a duplex we just bought for $30k ($15k a side)
The20YearIRCloud: It would have been a medium/high level person's house. It's near downtown and is only a few houses away from a speakeasy that was in operation during prohibition. It sold recently (the speakeasy) for around $200k.
The20YearIRCloud: $10k-$20k
The20YearIRCloud: A cheap house where we're working will run $450-$800 , same house in Columbus would be $1000-$1200
The20YearIRCloud: Well, you can drive 45 minutes outside of a columbus where you can buy land, build a smoke factory and the county asks for a $5 paperwork fee and literally nothing else
The20YearIRCloud: I had a house up there I was dealing with for someone, and I had roofers up there doing work. Zoning came by and complained that we hadn't bought the $100 permit, so they forced the guys off the roof even though it was going to rain soon and wouldn't let them put the tarp up there till there was a permit.
assbot: Gruber Has Made At Least $5.9 Million For Government Work | The Daily Caller
assbot: [Bash] #! /bin/bash # assumes that bitcoind is running blockmax=$1 should_continue - Pastebin.com
asciilifeform: what recovery can there be, when your $maxint coins walk away?
mircea_popescu: $conference
assbot: Bitcoin may be worth $1 million; says Pal
mircea_popescu: Mickey Mantle? That's what you're upset about? Mantle makes $ a year. How much does your father make?
assbot: Daily Kos :: Comments: Bitcoin may be worth $1 million; says Pal
assbot: Bitcoin may be worth $1 million; says Pal
jurov: $proxies
BingoBoingo: $2.69
BingoBoingo: Though winter of 2009 was beautiful with sub $2 per gallon gasoline.
BingoBoingo: Indeed. Yes dentist brother gets his $600 bezzel per working day, but youngest brother for some reason doesn't share dentist brother's deviance.
decimation: so this guy profits... and the 'taxpayer' picks up the $$bn bill for freddie mac and implicit bank guarantees
decimation: I had a conversation today about some guy who knew a guy who bought a house for $200k in california in 2002 and sold for $700k in 2006
asciilifeform: i.e., borrowing $20m while broke and on food stamps? or fraudulently collecting food stamps while bathing in $20m bezzlars.
mircea_popescu: In one instance, one of Rubin's relatives claimed weekly income of $200 to get Medicaid and food stamps while claiming a net worth of $10 million to banks in order to get $7 million in loans.
assbot: NY Family Accused of Taking Out $20 Million in Mortgages While Collecting Food Stamps | NBC New York
assbot: So much for speculation about no more 10-yr deals. Heyman says MIA taking w/Stanton about a 12-yr, $300 mil deal. How will they afford it?
mircea_popescu: $15 going rate here.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In this part of USia, $100 could buy 2 tanks with $20 left over
mircea_popescu: i have yet to meet a female argentinian that's both a) fuckable and b) owner in her own right of $100 worth of monthly income free and clear of any burden.
mircea_popescu: you gotta understand for most people $100 in disposable income would actually make a significant difference.
assbot: azelphur@darth-vader:~$ cat test.py str = 'line1\nline2 \\\n' fp = open('out.t - Pastebin.com
saifedean: i'm not too bothered, i don't think he'll muster more than $100 in "investment"
jurov: xanthyos wants to buy coins, you need some $$$
mircea_popescu: Singles Day—the annual Nov 11 online shopping frenzy in which Alibaba saw as many as 2.85 million transactions a minute at its peak, and a total of $9.3 billion in sales
mircea_popescu: $SERVER or w/e php used
mircea_popescu: As of May 2014, Kardashian is estimated to be worth $45 million.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform write to the owner/admin/whatever ticket system you use, tell him that i am offering $100 in bitcoin if they as much as show up here, to claim it.
jurov: $proxies
assbot: Bitcoin Prices Cross $430 | Qntra.net
jurov: then wtf, no, ne is representing $1B investors?
mircea_popescu: select from blog_derps where location within 50 miles and factor 1..n in $criteria or has car etc
mircea_popescu: $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure($permalink_structure); is the call you care about
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a $prefix defined in wp-admin/options-permalink.php but "you really should not fuck with that"
mircea_popescu: $proxies
mircea_popescu: "Dovecot's author takes pride in secure design and implementation. A reward of EUR 1,000 (approximately $1,310 USD, £840 GBP, 130000 Yen as of May 2013) has been announced for finding any remotely exploitable security flaw."
assbot: Does Canada's $100 Bill Smell Like Maple Syrup? Many Say So : The Two-Way : NPR
decimation: yeah: "Ditching the ICBMs would save taxpayers $14 billion over the next 10 years, but not everyone's a fan of the idea: Senators from states where the missiles are based and tested have formed an ICBM caucus that isn't shy to throw its weight around. As a condition for confirming Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's recent pick for undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, the caucus insisted that the Pentagon
Vexual: i read about that gut that printed $200 million, he hoarded it
cazalla: i mean, why spend $20-$30 on a pizza when you can get one from pizza hut on tight ass tuesday for $3.95!
mircea_popescu: $conference
asciilifeform was recently issued a $maxint laptop and was surprised to discover a built-in spectrometer.
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bounce: so the problem they're trying to solve by throwing a threadbare industry best current practice at it is to add some special "it's us, honest!"-sauce to link facebook.com and $facebook.onion
decimation: presumably $bn requires $lawyer to defend it
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> add a few $bn for military discouragement of molestation by currently invested parties. << Data centers with no safe disconnect distance
asciilifeform: add a few $bn for military discouragement of molestation by currently invested parties.
decimation: but we are talking $bn
decimation: asciilifeform: not quite, if you had the $$ you could get TSMC or whoever to mint one
asciilifeform: decimation: $0.1 micro doesn't have access to video ram to display the 'volume control bar' etc.
decimation: as if this couldn't be done with a $0.1 microcontroller
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asciilifeform: (back to the titanic pile of acorns, it did - if only by accident - make a useful point: sufficiently concentrated pile of $goodies is a 'target-rich environment')
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Silver to fall under $15/oz before December 27th" http://bitbet.us/bet/1049/ Odds: 86(Y):14(N) by coin, 73(Y):27(N) by weight. Total bet: 7.5111 BTC. Current weight: 40,158.
mircea_popescu: decimation: if you want something modern and not a rusty bucket you are talking ~$1-2 bn and your money can't buy one << you gotta be kidding me. an aircraft carrier is like 5bn. and i mean a large 100k tdw one, not the shitty 50k uk has.