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mircea_popescu: they took out credits in swiss francs because they were 1
% cheaper before the swiss franc doubled in value over a summer, so they could pay 80k for a shitty prefab apartment in a shitty bucharest neighbourhood,
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "25
% salary cuts every 2-3 months" << this is a thing?
mircea_popescu: so romanian presidential elections were 30
%-40
% first round, then 54
% - 45
% 2nd round. then they made a poll to see who people voted with, and 66
% claim to have voted wioth the winner. that's 12
% more than actually did. what fraction of that is people lying, and what fraction is votes stolen ?
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mircea_popescu: the gushing hordes on reddit were so very impressed with how the idiots in question "fixed" the problem (through leveraging a 50
%+1 attack against the blockchain, thourgh meanwhile discredited bircoin mining pools)
mircea_popescu: what they should do would be to remove like 90
% of the current dependencies.
Pierre_Rochard: data += "address:
%s, amount:
%s \r\n"
% (bitcoin_address, amount)
Pierre_Rochard: data = "document:sales_invoice, id:
%s \r\n"
% invoice_id
mircea_popescu: Companies 10 and 11 promised monthly returns of 50
% and 100
% (later 40
% and 70
%) respectively. At the same time, share prices could plummet 50
% for company 10 and 100
% (e.g. all the way down to 0) for company 11. That caveat (known as Rule 18) was another way for StockGeneration to justify their claims that this was a gambling website, rather than an investment vehicle.
mircea_popescu: Company 9 was the "privileged" company, with its shares "guaranteed" never to decrease in value. Promised return was originally 10
% a month (215
% annually,) but was later reduced to 7
% a month or 125
% annually. In early April 2000, Stock Generation, despite all previous guarantees, devalued its privileged company shares to 5
% of their previous value.
mircea_popescu: yeah, just like the
% of times a pickup line is successful depends on the pickup line.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking about this earlier. i wonder what
% of times is a "matgic packet" router attack successful.
kakobrekla: avg yearly supercomputer speedup in top 500, between the years 1993 and 2008: 90
% JorgePasada: Just have the plant be 20
% mining but only the 20
% where you're gonna be wasting the energy anyway
JorgePasada: mircea_popescu: No, but you'd have to find a way to not make it a 100
% deep 0
% wide business, you'd need wiggle room
undata: message ilike '
%term
%' and ...
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".
nubbins`: apparently something like 35
% of bitcoiners are leftys?
nubbins`: BingoBoingo it's only like 10
% as big, not so fun
decimation: although to be fair, I'm sure in his world as long as he has some poll that implies that 50
% of usian support whatever he is planning to do, he would consider it 'legitimate'
mircea_popescu: and so today you can buy an icecream cone like you could in the 80s, except : that it is "the same icecream" that's 1
% icecream, that you buy it for "the same dollars" that have been inflated 10mn to one and that all this allowed imaginary profits nobody can spent to be safely stored where such things are usually stored : fort knox, the social security, people's pensions...
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" ?
mircea_popescu: i always wondered what
% of "operations" end when group #1 doing "undercover work" catches group #2.
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pete_dushenski: can anyone remember the title of that trilema article where mircea_popescu discloses how much he sold that 5
% chunk of mpex for?
decimation: yeah I agree they aren't 100
% silent, but the advantages of silence seem to be large
The20YearIRCloud: I know I joke about owning slum houses, but they're all actually very nice. I underprice our rentals by maybe 5
%-10
% under normal market prices, and keep em in slightly better shape.
mircea_popescu: 99
% of bitcoin users, according to what people think, use windows.
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: to rephrase, the dollar would have lost 99.99
% of its value on the trip to 1mn BTCUSD
mats_cd03: funny how there's no mention of USD being worth <0.1
% of BTC if it goes to 1mn BTCUSD
mircea_popescu: fizzbuzz test is supposed to catch 99.5
% of "programmers" too neh ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: I would agree with the 'idiot' label - but you realize that this 'catches' at least 95
% of humanity - who generally refuse to consider their position w.r.t. the entire world's (and history's) context
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: 20 or so I believe. I think on ebooks I got 30
%. "Self" publishing is a racket
mrjr: we saw that with just 1,000 BTC accessible to the operators, they could cover 96
% of their Bitcoin withdrawal needs
dub: i think its worth noting that for eveyone other than mp and mike it was a 50-80
% loss
dub: 1
% losses for shareholders on s.wol is one interpretation
mircea_popescu: that's a third of the us economy, and about 30
% of the eu.
jurov: lol "medicinal alcohol" is 90
% stuff :DDD
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how's the russian thing work ? mostly as undata's idea, right ? loosely affiliated,
% enforcing warez sites
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the current state of the web, 50
% or more linkrotted away
ben_vulpes: something (perhaps js?) strips the '/', '
%'
mircea_popescu: UPDATE tril_posts SET `wp_content` = REPLACE (`post_content`, 'twitter.com', 'trilema.com') WHERE `post_content` LIKE '
%twitter.com
%'
saifedean: "you two are aware that if this were the normal about 90
% of urban population would die off through simple starvation within the decade, yes ?" how very publicly spirited of you, sacrificing your own health so you can eat in a way that lets peasants survive in giant urban hell-holes!
mircea_popescu: joecool:plenty of deer to shoot and ran a large vegetable garden saifedean:undata but then... who will raise the aggregate demand?! <<< you two are aware that if this were the normal about 90
% of urban population would die off through simple starvation within the decade, yes ?
joecool: chetty: i eat high
% chocolate, usually 91
% or 100
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell peterl yeah listen, this 50
% uptime business is for the dogs.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, it's politically useful. while i can appreciate the philosophical argument of "epsilon is still fundamentally different from 0", it doesn't carry as much practical importance as all that. for one thing, everyone feels entitled to tax you .1
%, including any bank moving your money, and so on and so forth. heck, the miners are taxing about 0.1
% RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu i suppose the notion of taxation in any form makes my brain burn -whether it be through force, state declaration or moral requirement. I am all in favor of the foundation and will likely contribute more than .01
% of my earnings to it, but pressing a moral obligation or establishing a rule/precedent for 'taxation' for anyone participating in btc commerce just doesn't make
mircea_popescu: <Pierre_Rochard> “pay a tax in sum of 0.1
% or a hundred thousand satoshi per full Bitcoin realised” <- Is this tax on profit or revenues? << profit