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decimation: well, it is certainly the case that it is hard to find a bank that pays more than 1
% on your savings account
decimation: as for 15x, you can get 0.5
% loans - that have 1-month adjustable rates
mircea_popescu: banks refinance at about 0.2
% anything under .3
% is ok but over that is being greedy.
decimation: mircea_popescu: for 'well qualified' folks in 'conventional' mortgages, you can get 3.5
% for 30 years!
assbot: BitBet - LTC to fall below half a bitcent before March :: 1.09 B (59
%) on Yes, 0.75 B (41
%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 5 days | weight: 46`041 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1z0iAu8 )
mats: its still fluctuating around 1
%, so perhaps it may live on yet
mircea_popescu: "A sampling of 30
% of average forum users isn't the same as 30
% of the community, and certainly not the ecosystem. In reality individual users and organizations carry different weight. At the end of the day people who believe in Bitcoin (and invest their money into it) will do what they can to protect that value. The fork which has the most economic value will be the one most likely to survive with confidence of those
mircea_popescu: "Now i see. Gavin announced chaos and drama to the press because he himself intends to create it. He gets a 30
% veto and still wants to proceed. It's gonna rip. I just switched to Litecoin."
mircea_popescu: as far as the fabled 17
% strictly monogamous cultures go... i very much doubt this ever happened. no culture in history was strictly monogamous for a strict definition of strictly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you feel like testing a 3rd approach, can you look through orphanage for
% of blocks more than 10
% off the difficulty ?
decimation: I like that line, because it summarizes the activity of about 90
% of the american 'security state'
felipelalli: would work similar as silver works to the economy (silver have ~ 777B market cap in a quick search I just made, not too much compared with gold but it is enough). Even if this coin have only 5 or 6
% of total bitcoin value, it could be useful to "don't stop the world" when bitcoin is under attack or maintenance. --- If I am wrong about that, I could write about what this is a bad idea and altcoins are bad at all.
jurov: 90
% of migrations isn't about schema, but about data
mats: Apocalyptic: ya. i bought at close yesterday. its up 18
% nao
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform fun fact : 50
% of america dreams of but doesn't own and can't afford a laptop. << tablets, "smartphones"
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.15 B (20
%) on Yes, 4388.36 B (80
%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 2 days | weight: 4`868 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1yQKFEb )
phillipsjk: The second time (when I reconnected my router after the attack dropped to ~12kiB/s) the ICMP packets were making up about 0.9
% of the packets.
phillipsjk: It is a UDP fragment flood lasting about 30 minutes. about 0.3
% of the packets were ICMP messages. Not sure if they are looking for "no route to host" from an intermediate router or what.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : 50
% of america dreams of but doesn't own and can't afford a laptop.
davout: the first 135461 blocksare probably like ~1
% of the total processing that needs to be done before being up to date
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: okay, then i'm talking about "nubbins orders 10k units, pre-loads the code, does what he just described, makes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, donates 10
% to .foundation, moves to dutch antilles"
mircea_popescu: maybe the blockchain that messes up seconds is a minute off over ten trillion years. whereas cesium clocks, .855
% off
nubbins`: but the actual sound production side of it is 100
% analog, so full granularity on pitch, tone, a bunch of other things
TomServo: In case anyone missed it, diff change: -6.14
%.
gribble: the20year was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 23 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes, and 1 second ago: <the20year> i hear they're aiming for a 0.5
% APY
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et al: missing ingredient - armv5 build of bitcoind 0.5.3 with necessary patches - that is, 100
% therealbitcoin-controlled seeds. << pretty neat
PeterL: mircea_popescu: what happens with your 25
% offer if they never stick megablocks into bitcoin-core code?
mircea_popescu: my "buy gavincoin at 25
% off still got exactly 0 offers"
mircea_popescu: davout: one week later, scalpl made 7
% profit <<< best rng ever :D
davout: one week later, scalpl made 7
% profit
mircea_popescu: papers of unknown authors chance of being read is ~0
%.
mircea_popescu: 90
% of its utility/planned use is surrepetitious "upgrades"
assbot: So /McDonalds is goin to start accepting a random type currency soon.. I wonder it its /search?q=
%24btc&src=ctag /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash
gabriel_laddel: The browser, window manager, gui library and emacs are all connected to the same common lisp process and are explorable at runtime. Conkeror is based on Emacs and shares some of the same conceptual foundation, thus, the whole experience feels very lispy. The lessons system is 'dialed-in'. For example, you can specify that the user is to scroll to 80
% of a particular URL, at which point you want the windows arranged
punkman: 50-60
% voter turnout, all-time low
mircea_popescu: His mastery of the skill comes not from his ability to "cut around the lines" but in that he can from start to finish carve on some of the most difficult woods in the world to work with. Wood that 80
% of your so called "master carvers" as they claim on youtube and the woodworking forums would not touch in a hundred years because it takes some serious talent to carve them.
mircea_popescu: these guys "delisted" at a 25
% buyback that they didn't really honor
mircea_popescu: CAVirtex, Canada’s largest and oldest Bitcoin online exchange, is facing a potential class action lawsuit to the tune of $884,880 CAD. The alleged losses were incurred by the lawsuit-bringers after the company offered 10
% of its shares for sale on the cryptocurrency-based asset exchange, Havelock Investments then stopped listing the stock by the end of 2013.
nubbins`: funny cos that WC guy definitely spent 100
% of the last couple days panicking and dealing w/ this
mircea_popescu: basically the bitcoin requirement is that your time is within ~10
% ish of itself. so you can travel at up to 30Mm/sec.
decimation: time is a concern for bitcoin, and I suspect that 99
% of your 'ntp' servers trace back to usg
assbot: BitBet - EUR/USD Parity in 2015 :: 0.24 B (80
%) on Yes, 0.06 B (20
%) on No | closing in 11 months 6 days | weight: 99`685 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1ybi07X )
pete_dushenski: "The stock—which trades under the symbol BOX—opened at $20.20 on the New York Stock Exchange, rose as high as $24.73 and closed at $23.23, up 66
% from its initial public offering price of $14."
mod6: but, this is 10
% of the memory i'm used to runing with
mircea_popescu: i just want a single item containing absolutely 100
% everything that is needed, with no references.
mircea_popescu: "I NEVER SAID THAT IT WAS FROM MY OWN MIND, I HAVE ALREADY SAID THAT I USED STOCK IMAGES ON SOME OF THE PIECES. that is not a crime, i own the rights to them. 70
% of your metal coins on the forum have stock image elements on them. Better start a dozen more witch hunts."
mircea_popescu: albania's bubble was like, 9x
% of maximum. russia's a few years earlier, more like 60
%ish. romania's a good 80
% decimation: of which apparently 99.7
% never actually use google plus as 'social media'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform the 2nd is particularly pernicious because of the "good enough" approach. "what do you mean bitcoin transactions can't be used to identify anything ? here's a list of derps we know for a fact, they're 50
% of the blockchain spam" << Reasons to never use a public Electrum server for people wondering about "Lite" wallets.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the 2nd is particularly pernicious because of the "good enough" approach. "what do you mean bitcoin transactions can't be used to identify anything ? here's a list of derps we know for a fact, they're 50
% of the blockchain spam"
mircea_popescu: at this point listing them on mpex should yield what, 25
% of equity. because it'd definitely increase their market value by that much.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Under Mark Karpeles bitcoin did 3,000,000
%. Under VC capital, merchant adoption, bitcoin bowl it did -80
%. : Bitcoin << that post has a core of point in it. if it weren't wrapped in redditard retardation / karpeles bs, it'd almost be worth making.
Pierre_Rochard: gavinandresen: I agree, but in this case I think Bitcoin’s competitive advantage is 100x, and transaction fees are a relatively small part of that, so if they were $0.50 instead of $0.05, adoption rate would decrease by let’s say 0.01
%.