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mrstickball_: I had a friend that made about $3,000 off of it on a single PC
mrstickball_: there was a period of time we were pushing $5,000/day in riser sales with a 100-300% profit margin
the20year: How much $$ was lost last year in processing fraud and that whole gambit? $25k?
mrstickball_: + we reinvest in inventory very frequently, so profits don't always show up on the books very quickly. I have $25,000 worth of risers behind my desk
mrstickball_: probably closer to $75-100k after all overhead. One issue that we had was some of our merchant processors have screwed us over
mike_c: $40k on $1m?
mrstickball_: kakobrekla: when we announced that we had S3's in stock, we made $5,000 in 8 minutes
mrstickball_: we've already grossed ~$1m USD in the past 12mo on hardware. Unfortunately, capital is a huge bottleneck
benkay: <mike_c> you pay $500,000 to have a cute little thing that loves you for 10 years, hates you for 8, and then hopefully respects you after that. // ideally. sculpting them into not-biodiesel is generally frowned upon in these parts.
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mike_c: you pay $500,000 to have a cute little thing that loves you for 10 years, hates you for 8, and then hopefully respects you after that.
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FabianB: $depth s.mg
FabianB: $depth f.mpif
FabianB: $depth s.bbet
FabianB: $depth s.mpoe
BingoBoingo: Golden toilet prices of $695 mil deliver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Musial_Veterans_Memorial_Bridge and the road surface isn't even smooth but the most charitable definition
BingoBoingo: "I can see this working for a limited amount of time, in small communities. But who is going to build a $3 Billion bridge and regulate the quality of the engineering? Donations? What will keep greedy companies from paying desperate workers $2/hour, which is what is happening right now in countries with less regulation." Ferries are still a thing
decimation: after spending $3 billion to build road, the gov't managers said that the 4-foot trail next to the road would be "too expensive" to complete
nubbins`: now we're only a mystery $15 over
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> just doing up the books for july, seems we have a mystery cash surplus of $666 << you have been clearly blessed. now if the lady's late...
nubbins`: just doing up the books for july, seems we have a mystery cash surplus of $666
mircea_popescu: this log is fucking epic. guy that's got himself blacklisted by derping at me can't spell funding and is looking for $500.
mircea_popescu: $proxies
mike_c: you could spring for the $3 http://www.amazon.com/Berkshire-Hathaway-Letters-Shareholders-2012/dp/1595910778
xmj: fluffypony: we're at about 75$/h
fluffypony: yeah look, if I paid a competent sysadmin freelancer that'll cost me $50/hour, and I can guarantee they'll over-engineer things despite my asking for something simple
nubbins`: i think he said he's pulled in $13k so far, hoping for $20k by the new year
nubbins`: he made the money when btc was > $1k
chetty: <bitcoinpete> $20k car is worth $15k the next year// and all the maintence costs and insurance and and
bitcoinpete: $20k car is worth $15k the next year
bitcoinpete: $10k for new car, $10k for bitcoins
bitcoinpete: let's say he made $20k off the prints
bitcoinpete: nubbins`: did you tell him he shoulda bought $10k of bitcoin instead?
bitcoinpete: https://bitcoin23.crowdtilt.com/bitcoin23-nascar << donate $25k cuz bitcoiners have dogederp fomo
assbot: BTCUSD Update (Bitstamp) Preparing for $700?
BigBitz: $500? $440?
dub: albeit a $1000/night backyard
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: $99 and it's yours. delivery estimated in november 2014 << expensive, but it's not actually a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: money here's a real joke, largest bill ~$8
bitcoinpete: $99 and it's yours. delivery estimated in november 2014
benkay: $mpexlag
pankkake: $proxies
nubbins`: $65m to gaza & west bank
pankkake: $56M to Russia
nubbins`: hm, china received $34m in foreign aid from canada in 2012
benkay: <nubbins`> i struggle to understand living a life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination of your aspirations // that's why they demand consummation immediately afterwards, to keep the void filled
asciilifeform: life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination << next: seppuku parties. save the date!
nubbins`: i struggle to understand living a life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination of your aspirations
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: For asciilifeform> we're talking about a gadget that powers up and sends a single 'sms' every blue moon. << You can pay $ int every year.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and both carriers you mentioned charge $posint / mo.
asciilifeform: dub: every carrier i know of save the ones described above deduct $positive_integer per $time_period
dub: uh its 3Gb for $50
dub: now that I think about it, I once bought an LTE modem with sim and $50 credit for $50
dub: still only $20-30 with some credit included
nubbins`: i mean, really, it's not the band that gets the $10k
nubbins`: one of our regular customers was awarded a $10k grant last year to record an album
nubbins`: they're only around $700
kakobrekla: at this point - might be more $ to be in the floppy biz.
nubbins`: nice middle-of-the-line cd duplicator is maybe $1500
bitstein: Ethereum has raised nearly $800k in about 2 hours: https://blockchain.info/address/36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2
nubbins`: sliding scale, i let the kid away with $50 ;D
kakobrekla: for 100$ i cant even ship my machine domestically.
mircea_popescu: $proxies
FabianB: $mpexlag
empyex: mircea_popescu: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com MPEx-Status: 428 milliseconds Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91 (change: $proxies <newlist>)
mircea_popescu: $proxies
mircea_popescu: $mpexlag
mircea_popescu: still, makes $mpexlag actualy more valuable as a middle-of-the-road sort of measure.
mircea_popescu: $mpexlag
bitcoinpete: $211,000,000,000 = $AAPL and $GOOG combined cash holdings
bitcoinpete: "China signed a bilateral currency swap agreement worth 150 billion yuan ($24.17 billion) with the Swiss central bank, which can invest up to 15 billion yuan in China's bond market."
empyex: jurov: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com MPEx-Status: 422 milliseconds Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91 (change: $proxies <newlist>)
jurov: $proxies mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com
empyex: jurov: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz MPEx-Status: 1028 milliseconds Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91 (change: $proxies <newlist>)
jurov: $proxies
FabianB: MPEx.rb users: just change "mpexkeyid" in $HOME/.mpex/config.yaml to 02DD2D91 and sign it before usage
empyex: FabianB: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz MPEx-Status: 748 milliseconds (change: $proxies <newlist>)
FabianB: $mpexstatus
empyex: mircea_popescu: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
mircea_popescu: $proxies
mircea_popescu: $mpexlag
mircea_popescu: $s
empyex: mircea_popescu: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
mircea_popescu: $proxies mpex.ws mpex.bz
dub: this question 'what should you take to a $site', options ID, changte request, then lists three different access card types
decimation: you can buy on digikey for ~$20 as i recall, but I"m sure apple paid much less
nubbins`: $500k home here *might* have an air conditioner :D
empyex: FabianB: Proxies: ".. running a final swathe of test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back this weekend. also fabian is pretty cool." MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
FabianB: $mpexstatus
cazalla: you can get the m50s for around $100 on special sometimes
Vexual: for $120 try a fresh set
dub: bad news is $200k legal bill
decimation: well and worthless $1 are still bills
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the funny part is, surplus lab robots (like the one i used to program) can be had for < $1k. but they're gigantic.
empyex: FabianB: Proxies: ".. running a final swathe of test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back this weekend. also fabian is pretty cool." MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
FabianB: $status
asciilifeform: and$t0, $t0, 0xffbfffff
thickasthieves: i should do $500/seat L2Bitcoin seminars for the local mexicans and guatemalans
assbot: Russia makes $32 billion dollars of Cubas outstanding debt disappear