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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that's actually pretty accurate. except smart ppl did not think it was cool. "smart" people had visions of a wikipedia-bayesian world.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : not your call to make. by the time they need or can benefit from that sort of thing, they're old enough to pick their own/
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> does anyone know of any decent sociopolitical histories of tls/ssl? << "no" or "only shitty ones" depending on your clearance.
mircea_popescu: adlai> satoshi says, "the world is malleable and so is bitcoin!" sipa says "maybe not", so we shoot him before he starts giving any really dangerous ideas << you really should lay off the sauce.
mircea_popescu: fucktard. i'd be worried about the sms from the bush a lot more if i was dealing billions with this schmuck.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: I dropped my bike in a bush and texted our salesperson about the idea. <<< re the entire chechens thread.
mircea_popescu: i have never met any even half-competent physicists that were proud of their... paper certifications.
mircea_popescu: the actual bones under the abomination are mostly "this is everything" and "all people are equally, each individually, the complete and proud representation of all humanity" and bla bla.
mircea_popescu: of course, it is only superficially related to bayes' own work.
mircea_popescu: doesn’t involve trying to derive probabilities at all, but rather asks the user to just “produce your best-informed guess.” << and you'd love this precisely because of who you are, and where yo ulive, and what you want to be true.
mircea_popescu: And why his favored approach to stress testing (a technique called Bayesian nets) << oh lordy.
mircea_popescu: shoulda grazed sheep instead. learned more, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: in other words, the us fed is managed way the fuck worse than b-a. because hey, the world is full of "physics phds" that went to fucking mit.
mircea_popescu: "In other words, the Fed, by centralizing stress testing around its own approach, is incentivizing banks to follow suit, which may push them to accumulate similar exposures to one another and to manage them in similar ways, resulting in decreased diversification and increased risk. This is a question raised by particularly prescriptive rules like the Fed’s 5 percent hurdle, which are simple to monitor but may be just
mircea_popescu: the dutch followed the portuguese, and after their conquest of the offshore platform and re-basing of their ships there....
mircea_popescu: no. the british hadn't yet been invented at that point.
mircea_popescu: the dictum "never get involved in a land war in asia" is mostly due to the fact that the portuguese were involved in a sea war in asia, and it worked splendidly for them.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: heck, the age of trade was driven by people trying to make their trading house matter more than the ministry of war where all the cavalry officers and junkers hung out.
mircea_popescu: "Hitting a market’s ceiling like this was something that none of my methodologies accounted for." << because going "hey, my primary's like 20bn, the unwind that might need could easily be 2bn in a week, the whole fuel market's maybe a fifth that, hey check this out I've propped a car with a toothpick overf here"
mircea_popescu: there is the lulzy part where "physics phd" genius boy props up a huge derivative trade with a weak market, an absolute noob mistake - and one his fucking desk should have caught.
mircea_popescu: same penis is used to make kids as made napoleon, too.
mircea_popescu: ru is not nearly as aerospace capable as the su was when sputnik, but it's certainly not as bad as it had gotten by 1980
mircea_popescu: (still to this very day putin's ru does not match "we will bury you" su in various key industrial production metrics)
mircea_popescu: trade went to commodity-only, which drove the rapid deindustrialization of 93
mircea_popescu: counterparties stopped accepting rubles for eurodollars.
mircea_popescu: expect the same in the last days of the us. not being a nation is VERY dangerous.
mircea_popescu: exactly same happened in the last days of austro-hungarian empire
mircea_popescu: capital flight in a collapsed federation is a universal reliable phenomenon.
mircea_popescu: for one thing. for the other... obviously they stole all the goats they could, but that didn't really register.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really. and also, the chechen story is mostly a fabrication for internal su consumption.
mircea_popescu: part and parcel of the original design was this refactoring of patches./
mircea_popescu: alternatively, P should come in P, P' and P'' flavours as needed.
mircea_popescu: wait. do i even have to ? "start from here and apply everything from these people" isn't exactly "defined"
mircea_popescu: seems to me it should stay undefined. i just assumed you were discussing roots
mircea_popescu: why we even discussing "a head" ? why does it make a difference ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes << forfeiture now a fedz-only game << in the logs last week!
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> LOOK BRUCE WAGNER is back << that's probably that goat fuckwit.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: works best as part of a balanced diet, which includes banhammer << by... ip ?
mircea_popescu: cheaper and more effectual way to announce that being, of course, having a bid in i guess.
mircea_popescu: actually there is a ticket price where everyone WHO SHOULD BE RIDING gets a seat.
mircea_popescu: the white chicks currently inhabiting it could be trained to dance, i suppose. if you can teach bears you can probably teach argentines too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform argentina is only notable for the landmass. you can fit about five europes in here.
mircea_popescu: apparently all the others somehow got lost in a cloud of "could never happen to me".
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'It is about sending a strong message. << it is about sending a strong message alright.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the belching smokestacks to usaschwitz ? <<< mongolia, india, pakistan, whatevs. africa, argentina, they're looking.
mircea_popescu: <Quent> personally I suspect Peter Todd and btcdrak << but who the fuck are you to "personally".
mircea_popescu: psa : do not use the gpg supplied mechanism for "key expiration", or anything else from there as far as "key management" goes for that matter.