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Adlai: mircea_popescu: tl;dr because i'm about to leave for
a movie?
mircea_popescu: this was
a crucial point in the early history of the various anglosaxon tribes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, because orlovignorance is like the gift that keeps on giving : english is "not spelled like pronounced" for the exact any other natural language (including ones that believe quite delusionally that they are, like romanian) is not : this allows for
a variety of disjunct speakers to at least use the same writing.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Logged on 16-05-2013 02:56:36; mircea_popescu: tell you wahjt, if i'm the boss of
a tribe and i need
a curtrency ima make teeth the currenyc. <<< shit that spelling.
Adlai: so, just knowing that scalpl is managing some assets in
a market doesn't reveal its AUM or strategy, neither the general strategy nor the specific one at the present moment... the smaller the AUM, the better you can hide within the invisible hand
mircea_popescu: otherwise my usage was ambiguous, the 2nd reference rto
a "3rd stage" just means the 3rd step in the reading process being proposed.
Adlai: +asciilifeform | if no information asymmetry (i.e., everybody can see your cards) - no win. << each limit order Lᵢ is one of Nⱼ orders belonging to
a single entity, say Pⱼ. Lᵢ are known, but unknowns include ⱼ, Nⱼ, and Lᵢ→Pⱼ
Adlai: scalpl executes strategies which
a separate component comes up with, in markets of that component's choice. whether that component runs on computers or brains is for that other component to decide.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2014 21:26:13; mircea_popescu: really the proposition of making
a living with trading bots is the response of the engineer who confronted with the fundamental impossibility of making money picking stocks decides to write
a hard ai to do it.
Adlai: interesting. seen
a certain way, i'm
a slow-bleeding rape of things like MACD crossover bots
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2014 21:16:22; asciilifeform: (in fact, i suspect that any bot whose strategy is not
a game-theoretical-finesse-rape of other bots - is quite useless)
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2014 01:17:32; *: Adlai begins
a slow-paced infinite brainstorm of how to monetize open source trading software
Adlai: fwiw, if anybody in here is interested in geeking out
a little on scalpl and trying it out for themselves (or just get
a better idea for how well it works atm), i'd gladly do that in PM. i try to keep my horn-tooting to
a minimum, although
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2014#913050 is still going
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 16-05-2013 02:59:23; Chaaang-Noi: i find your guys reaction to gold and silver as
a store of value very funny :)
Adlai:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-05-2013#33371 <<
a forex fellow in NYC recently put it best: "Any commodity or asset being used as
a store of value will experience higher prices than its 'true value'... Bitcoin separates this into
a separate asset, enabling better price discovery for the others"
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 16-05-2013 02:56:36; mircea_popescu: tell you wahjt, if i'm the boss of
a tribe and i need
a curtrency ima make teeth the currenyc.
gernika: mircea_popescu: im pretty sure 3rd stage reader actually has two cvasi-simultaneous processes where the same photogram as registered by eyes is first parsed for stems then parsed for endings and they get superimposed in
a 3rd stage << Is "3rd stage"
a reference to
a formal description of the classes of reading ability that I can research elsewhere?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: poster from my greek history classroom: "It takes N muscles to smile // M[<N] muscles to frown // but 0 to just sit there with
a dumb look on your face"
Adlai often gets called
a politician by irl friends and is unsure whether to take this as
a compliment or wut
ben_vulpes: not really
a question, more of its own statement
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes time for bitcoin foundation to issue
a statement that the only thing bitcoin needs is for politicians and other leeches to stfu and go away ?
mircea_popescu: people were still naming their kids calogero after him when de niro was but
a wee boy.
mircea_popescu: from what i heard from the remnants of people actually involved, dealing with the germans was more or less like dealing with
a party that had done
a bunch of drugs, sober.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do you think distrust is
a negative ?
bounce: the money flows with gay abandon to the point there's
a term for that: "military industrial complex"
bounce: it's
a well-paying job for many little drones that produce all those intelligence reports that nobody gets around to reading
mircea_popescu: bounce only compared to other agents, that do
a much better job of it.
mircea_popescu: if any of the young uns reading us silently is looking for
a dragon to slay anbd be
a hero : run
a new silkroad as
a reverse-honeypot.
Naphex: hey you gotta figure out as soon as lowlies seen SR1.0 drop, find
a dork, put
a website on that tor thingie
mircea_popescu: "can use spoon to eat soup but not paddle
a small boat. because i am an idiot" wtf.
mircea_popescu: "Without getting into too much detail, it is useful for capturing minute distinctions between accents and dialects; it is not useful for achieving
a dialect-neutral representation of
a language."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> punkman: hah, same story as SR1.0 <<< im not so sure i believe that, incidentally. iut's called parallel construction for
a reason, and that reason is, "lying through the teeth". << SR 1.0 parallel construction, SR 2.0 comedy of errors
mircea_popescu: did this fellow have
a bunch of self-hate issues or something ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol way to go on
a rant. clearly the quoted guy meant "people" as in groups. the implication that naggum isn't
a person is not found inside the op's position.
mircea_popescu: primitive religious minds all over europe firmly believed that unbelievers can not be decent, and will kill themselves or go on
a rampage or something
mircea_popescu: in
a more scholarly perspective : that "respect for others" argument is an exact reprise of the historical argument for "the respect for god". especially in the posited ill effects.
mircea_popescu: " Losing respect for people is the first step towardsthe criminally insane mind. Losing the ability to think of otherhuman beings as of one's own kind is the last, the idea that one isdifferent from others, an outsider to humanity. You have crossed thatcrucial line, probably
a long time ago." <<< fwiw, naggum i trivially invalidated by example.
chetty: use
a word not on the approved list and you will never get that job, obviously you are
a dangerous 'thinker'
chetty: the list of 'approved' words will be down to
a few hundred in no time.
mircea_popescu: he has the chance of
a snowball up satan's arse to do
a better job than all the femiwhales running around using words for purposes.
mircea_popescu: if he imagines saving
a few bytes of notation can have any sort of measurable impact on the workload of culture.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, knowing what
a word means requires knowing its etymology, for all languages in which it appears, as well as
a lengthy casebook of previous usage
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, because i realised this while sleeping re some convo
a few days ago : "knowing what
a word means" is, for the marginally illiterate "read-by-letter" type,
a matter of memorizing definitions. this however is at best
a sorry approximation of the real deal.
mircea_popescu: imagine what the web would be like if domain name resolution worked on
a "what know domain is this new domain most like"
mircea_popescu: i hold that libtards are born by using "own head" as
a source to extract the unknown.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, when the "internet" from microsoft encounters
a word aka domain name it doesn't know
chetty: learning initially with phonics lets
a pérson breakdown
a word they encounter that dont know regardless of their normal reading method. The look-say method people are stuck.
mircea_popescu: at least, judging by the types of errors that end up forcing me to re-read, vast majority of which indicate
a mismatch in the 3rd stage.
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure 3rd stage reader actually has two cvasi-simultaneous processes where the same photogram as registered by eyes is first parsed for stems then parsed for endings and they get superimposed in
a 3rd stage
mircea_popescu: s not attempt to draw any significant parallels between sight and sound, are at
a loss."
mircea_popescu: "I was able to validate my hypothesis that quite
a few English-speakers lack phonological awareness and are not aware of the alphabetic principle. Many people have simply memorized some number of words, by sight and by sound. And since learning Unspell involves having the ability to analyze spoken English as
a series of phonemes, people who have been taught to read English using the “look and say” method, which doe
mircea_popescu: Naphex : asciilifeform has
a much more fundamental approach to things. he's not really
a business minded / cost oriented fellow.
Naphex: asciilifeform: prolly
a few days to set up the infrastucture and 're-ingineer' the essentials in bitcoind
mircea_popescu: take the body in this case :
a whiny 25 yo beta masquerading as an "executive dating coach".
chetty: unfortunately all these lost causes leave
a trail of bodies behind when they move on
mircea_popescu: so now they've moved on from "porn activism",
a soundly lost battle, to "rape culture" bs.
mircea_popescu: however,
a bunch of people have managed to paint themselves into
a corner, by an unfortunate meeting of government welfare and libertard ideology.
chetty: I been hearing that term 'rape culture'
a lot recnetly, what the hell is that?
mircea_popescu: punkman: don't think I've ever had
a good mango <<< ew, you're missing out.
mircea_popescu: bounce nah, economy of scale. same process involved in being
a god anyway.
bounce: seems like
a bit of
a job overload if you're god of bloody everything
bounce: curious problem for universal there-is-only-one gods, though. gods with domains typically have some sort of job description. "care for fertility" "make the rains come", whatever. but
a universal god? what's it got to do with it?
mircea_popescu: i mean he's
a god for crying out loud, what bs is this insecure egotism as depicted by teh jews. nonsense i say!
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if one were
a god, but i mean actual, honest-to-god god. wouldn't you expect he'd mostly want to hang out with assorted unbelievers, unrepentant sinners and firebrand heretics ?
bounce already has
a nice hat.
bounce:
a hate-hat? what colour is that?
assbot:
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