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nubbins`: "Bottled Queef Gas may be worth 755
%"
assbot: Apple Has 93
% of Mobile Profits; 650M Users by 2018, Says Canaccord - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com ... (
http://bit.ly/1CPQdBP )
mircea_popescu: "I was told that this sample set was too small so I performed the same test over four to five years until I reached the sample size of 10,000 in total split into tranches of 100. Every time the answer effectively remained the same. All the samples lie between a 94
% bias and a 100
% bias."
mircea_popescu: "I originally performed this test 5 times and found approximately a 95
% skew" << :D
mircea_popescu: take out 99.85
% of the population, suddenly roads can be straight np.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, "votes" by bs nodes with < 90
% uptime is pointless.
IHB: @petertoddbtc @trilema @oocBlog @BryceWeiner @JustusRanvier @fredwilson @balajis In regards to scalability and the perceived threat facing the bitcoin ecosystem I am still not convinced we have a problem here. Gavin has been talking about this for a little while now and it shouldn’t surprise anyone of us that he is publicly trying to get a proposal ready so the full nodes can vote on it. 1. If 80
% of the full nodes v
mircea_popescu: dude, don't tell me stories. policeman thinks 120
% is koshert ?
mircea_popescu: you know, somebody should do this as a service. comic strip summarizer. watch them all, pick the i dunno, 1
% worth a chuchle.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, there's a bitcoin kink group. 90 guys of which 50
% over 50, 10 gals, of which half from thailand.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : it's not "mostly engineers". it's 100
% of all the business people actually involved with bitcoin.
nubbins`: incidentally, i have a 1.125oz Canadian numismatic piece from 2013 that I priced the other day... has increased in value by 50
% since last summer o.O
assbot: BitBet - BTC to rise vs USD in February :: 4.46 B (70
%) on Yes, 1.89 B (30
%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 2 days | weight: 75`610 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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jurov: yeah, i guess 75
% of me codes
bitcoinquestions: by code I mean knows a little bit of python and by everyone I mean 75
%+
mircea_popescu: in MPWorld this is implemented as a sort of api, and languages either talk to it or are stuck doing 100
% of the work themselves.
jurov: that generator discussion..incredible. like, imma here running a server off only a little ups with 99.9
% uptime
adlai: i'm not going to declare in advance that i want X
% of profits, or a Y
% upfront fee, if that's what you're looking for
adlai has lost money from garbage data spewed by finex's "trading engine" during extreme load... but he's also making >⅓
% daily there, which has its charms
adlai: or 100
% of the profit from using my own 10btc
mircea_popescu: nah, first timers get a few
% of the profit, and at the end of a whole year.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the great utility of the scribe / secretary, rather than the tits, is that natural languages have piles and layers of redundancy built in. a good note taker is a cheap way to gain 50 to 100
% speed and a decent 10 to 25
% quality for very little cost.
mircea_popescu: trinque i think the concern is to be approached on two lines, empirically. line 1) what
% of queries constitute powerplays and b) what
% of queries result in interesting education that a noob reading logs would benefit from.
☟︎ the_scourge: "I estimate that 90-95
% of the work in Plan 9 was directly or indirectly to honor externally imposed standards." < wow that is really sad... and ... is there a solution?
danielpbarron: at height=27000 the memory is at like 70
% used, no swap
mircea_popescu: more like 400, but then you'd have to explain 1k
% inflation in 30 years,
kanzure: well i was going to write
%f but then i realized i value my life
kanzure: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint:
%d. This may take a few moments.\n Could not find your key. Check if your key is available on keyservers and try later.
assbot: Likely why Twitter has been trying to get news out ahead of earnings: User growth was only 1.4
%, the worst on record. /search?q=
%24TWTR&src=ctag
mircea_popescu: so basically the diff between betting and buying is 3
% on one side, vs the risk premium on the other.
TheNewDeal: I usually just place a premium, like, 3
% on the timeweight
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal but your holding is worth at the very most .189 BTC, and that if no has a 100
% chance to win ?
assbot: BitBet - BTC to rise vs USD in February :: 4.21 B (69
%) on Yes, 1.89 B (31
%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 6 days | weight: 90`871 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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mircea_popescu: 90
% of all available anything, towards the end of things.
pete_dushenski: Ukrainian Central bank raises overnight refinancing rate to 23
% from 17.5
% the_scourge: mircea_popescu: good advice but as a non-USian who has spent 90
% of his life outside the US and 100
% of his adult life outside of N/A, and has lived in non-western places as well, i think there could be something said for living for a short while in california or new england
the_scourge: i don't see very much difference between that and PoW blockchains which have vulnerabilities early on, and can't be truly invulnerable until legitimate mining is consuming 51
% of the earth's electricity
Rippleflip_: PeterL: it is all 100
% verifiable from public ledger
phillipsjk: The top 1
% will be lucky to buy Bitcoin once per decade.
trinque: I'm at like 37
% of rsync'ing leveldb turds up to the server
mod6: during debugging, i did see something that mentioned "blk
%04d.dat" when looking at the txout.scriptPubKey vector:
http://dpaste.com/1E4QQ9A mircea_popescu: it's an ideal usecase for the "use ssd until it fries" because the value of running a pogo is in its running. so a pogo that ran for 3.5 years then died, had part replaced and resynced over three weeks then ran for another 3.5 years is a perfectly functional, 99.999
% uptime pogo as good as any other.
mod6: ok well asciilifeform, I think I'll try the first one in your list since it's 100
% sync'd
assbot: checkmark shows blockchain fully downloaded, but progress bar shows 99
% · Issue #921 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub ... (
http://bit.ly/1CY2Fhj )
assbot: BitBet - Silk Road Deliberations Over 6 Hours :: 1.25 B (54
%) on Yes, 1.06 B (46
%) on No | closing in 23 hours 28 minutes | weight: 100`000 (100`000 to 100`000) ... (
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assbot: BitBet - Silk Road Deliberations Over 6 Hours :: 1.04 B (50
%) on Yes, 1.06 B (50
%) on No | closing in 1 day 55 minutes | weight: 100`000 (100`000 to 100`000) ... (
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BingoBoingo: the_scourge> when we started cooking our food (cause fire was a new technology at some point), our intestine shrunk by over 20
%, leaving more energy for our brain << More likely shrunk as meat became nutrient fire or not. Most carnivores have short GI tracts because meat digest faster than comlex plant matter. Cell walls are a bitch to break.
the_scourge: when we started cooking our food (cause fire was a new technology at some point), our intestine shrunk by over 20
%, leaving more energy for our brain
mircea_popescu: The algae has actually been tested and successfully grown in human urine at 1:180 parts. After 7days, 97
% of NH4+-N, 96.5
% of total phosphorus (TP) and 85–98
% of urea in the urine (ca. 120-diluted) were removed by the microalgae under autotrophic culture (30 °C).
mircea_popescu: bitcoin stable state is where > 50
% of all energy generated on planet earth goes to mininmg.
jurov: in any webmail, you can save the finished message as draft and then try to gpg verify the text. that should take care of 90
% of above problems
jurov: > 1.33.197.110:8333 1 1422939389 99.99
% 99.40
% 99.29
% 87.54
% 74.50
% jurov: < 1.33.197.110:8333 1 1422939389 99.99
% 99.40
% 99.29
% 87.54
% 74.50
% 341734 00000001 70001 "/Satoshi:0.8.6/"
mircea_popescu: heh. people keep derping about the 1
% but don't really want to be teh 1
% eh ?
trinque: pete_dushenski: the vc fairy wanted 67
% of my business
the_scourge: sex is 100
% merit. it's the one thing that can't be made needs-based even temporarily
mircea_popescu: "The anti-fork crowd mostly consists of a small minority of ego-maniacal, 1
% wannabees who want to keep Bitcoin as a niche market for elitist whales because it suits their vested interests. "
mircea_popescu: PeterL you have to understand, 99
% of the circulating material is just that. they get fed hay, they shit it out, it goes on the pasture, which makes more hay. the people live off the wool produced, which is a side effect.
mircea_popescu: poor people have this very massive twin headed disadvantage where a) they start from a very low basis, hence the 1 bitcoin and b) they start surrounded by morons, so nobody to tell them about the importance of
%s
mircea_popescu: the problem is that if you running around in a circle yields you 10 dopamine bitcoins per hour, and actually reading the logs yields you 1 dopamine bitcoin per hour increasing by 10
% every subsequent hour,
mircea_popescu: “The most recent poll showed that the majority of Americans no longer believe the conspiracy theory that a species emitting only 3
% of the world’s supply of a poor heat-trapping gas are magically cooling the planet… I mean heating the planet…. or wait, I mean causing the weather to change now.”
decimation: the implication being that serious folks with lots of bezzlars see a 3
% 30-year loan as a great investment - which is telling about expectations of the future