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mircea_popescu: also, make sure you typed the email address correctly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda how sane people use this : wallet on a system behind a node system in a nat.
mircea_popescu: but even admitting this were done correctly, the problem still remains of what txn the client should order broadcast.
mircea_popescu: ideally you want exactly what ben_vulpes was proposing : a node server with a wallet client
mircea_popescu: it's basically a sort of windows nt, to replace windows 3.1. look, flashier plumage and mating dances!
mircea_popescu: he doesn't understand the implementation details. but the situation, he understands just fine.
mircea_popescu: it's about not spending your time writing fiction under the pretense of "thinking". the mouse excels at this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, us had a much better view of the soviets than the soviets, and vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: the hoodlums trying to be drug lords in detroit have a lot more sense in this matter than the "business majors" coming out of harvard.
mircea_popescu: and that is, joining the wot early, and helping set the world on fire. it. strictly it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this is conservation. one does not acquire wealth except one single way
mircea_popescu: otherwise, there are some classes of optimization problems ~once you're already rich~.
mircea_popescu: if you are one of the people buying belgian rubber concessions on the stock exchanges, you make money. if you're in africa, you make quick with the hands and feet.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: making money is a purely ~political~ function. if you are among the favoured elite of the respublica veneta, you then may invest in the ships, and make a profit. if not, not.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: making money is not a function of one's hard work and dilligence in the schoolhouse sense.
mircea_popescu: very naggum-ish character actually. except iirc swedish
mircea_popescu: once you do, you're fucked. "works on most machines" now.
mircea_popescu: looky here : for as long as you don't aim to use the "shortest program" thing for the purpose of attacking my statement, it is ok.
mircea_popescu: only if they don't include it. once you've included it... you've made it general.
mircea_popescu: far be it from me to diss fiction - the creation of "proofs" we know from the outset to be false and then their taking apart to examine where they stole our eyes is exactly shakespeare's trade.
mircea_popescu: the mere fact that you have such proof is sufficient proof that it is wrong.
mircea_popescu: for as long as the proof is wrong, yes, it provably exists.
mircea_popescu: what is the correct code gcc approximates as it churns on cygwin ?
mircea_popescu: it "works" like all fatlogic works : because it's easier
mircea_popescu: at its core, the "optimal retrospective investment" problem is a nude and rude proposition to replace the action imperative ("mouse must escape or die in the act of trying") with an imaginary junk. ("it could have been"). this is not substantially different from what the usg does when it invents a new name for the homeless and pretends to have "resolved the problem".
mircea_popescu: now look at it from the fallacious "purpose" perspective.
mircea_popescu: the time direction thing never stopped anyone from thinking "hey, i could have done better!" or be bitter about how things turned out etc.
mircea_popescu: like, the complexity problem guarantees no government will ever succeed. yet who's deterred from "empirebuilding".
mircea_popescu: in any event, all human folly is based on the failure to come to terms and trying to go through the wall.
mircea_popescu: another is the complexity problem. the simple fact that once the father has said "i know shit", if he opens his mouth enough to say as little as some basic math, he's now wrong.
mircea_popescu: there are a number of hard rules of the world we inhabit, that children take some time to internalize. one is, of course, "move backwards through time" thing. what adolescent did not ponder this, wish it, etc.
mircea_popescu: to put this to intuition : suppose in the alt-universe where your microscopic trade happened, another trader happened to see it and panic.
mircea_popescu: the moment you start doin this sort of thing it no longer behaves thusly.
mircea_popescu: yes, it does, provided you don't take it out of there.
mircea_popescu: '(what bits would you send back in time to time T1), if you could, from time T2, (to maximize profit from investing C coin)'
mircea_popescu: nope. you use in one phase symbols that don't exist of the other.
mircea_popescu: hm. it was discussed but i think long long ago, pre searchable stuff.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope. the notion of "optimal" is undefined.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all the major differences between them and us, it occurs to me there's a very painfully obvious stylistical point : b-a.com doesn't have traffic tracking, github.com doesn't let you search.
mircea_popescu: open source is safe because it's read by millions of eyes, which we ban.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform was just ip-banned by 'github' for 'too many requests from your addr' << lmao.
mircea_popescu: n his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> and enron ruined pensions for everyone << if only. "My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to i
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 40% or 90% is purely a wordchoice matter, much like the zhim thing. 5%ish is where it matters.
mircea_popescu: PeterL being prepared. there's definitely going to be one.
mircea_popescu: any system where taxes exceed maybe 6 or 7% is de facto a command economy,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will remember we're discussing markets here. the phenomenon of alleged "prices" in a situation where the government is the largest economic actor is laughable anyway.