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mircea_popescu: but in russian : США и Европейский союз ввели несколько раундов санкций против Москвы парализует себя. / США и Европейский союз ввели несколько раундов санкций сокрушительный Москву.
mircea_popescu: russians : "The U.S. and the European Union have imposed several rounds of crippling sanctions against Moscow" ; nato : "The U.S. and the European Union have imposed several rounds of crippling sanctions against Moscow".
mircea_popescu: also this is why english is the international language whereas russian is not : english allows two parties to reach a "mutual conclusion" which they can both live with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform myeah. writing for your audience, worst fucking idea ever.
mircea_popescu: "The U.S. and the European Union have imposed several rounds of crippling sanctions against Moscow" << lolmkay.
mircea_popescu: adlai: "The system, akin to an X-ray machine for the stock market" Here we see the useless metaphor in its natural habitat, a NYtimes article << lol, quite. at least salon and the rest of the sew crowd make their metaphores pointedly wrong, rather than useless.
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone willing to work with an incredibly intricately documented ad-hoc algol is more than welcome to be a lawyer. all it takes really.
mircea_popescu: course "loophole" doesn't have the same sound to it as "bug" does.
mircea_popescu: but i like how bounce's legal mind works. seriously, contrary to all the pretense of the entrenched "profession" to the contrary, being a lawyer is EXACTLY being a coder, nothing different at all, let alone substantially different is taught in law school. the ONLY difference is that the hardware is very limited and the api incredibly old and terribly buggy.
mircea_popescu: bounce: so, is there any data anywhere of the efficacy and efficiency of KYC and AML reg implementations? << nope.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 no, not that one. the one where you kiss a girl while the other sucks you off.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 whatever you do, don't do the bj kiss. it'll ruin "traditional" life for you.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i had a bet with a younger, entrepreneur friend, which went that if automatic "make clone of your own penis" and "test yourself for all diseases" kits appear at the same time, the former'll oversell the latter.
mircea_popescu: 'll just be for cheap toys, nightstand knobs that sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: adlai and what it means is, "even cheaper furniture and finishings for the us mortgage mouse"
mircea_popescu: (am i the only one into toothpaste art around the age of 5 or so ?)
mircea_popescu: bounce well 3d printing is mostly toothpaste sculpture, except with plastic.
mircea_popescu: well no, but there's airplanes where you ppls live neh ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i have a metal hand press, and a pile of oranges. so im going to make myself some freshly squeezed orange juice and douse it in the local cognac.
mircea_popescu: because i never noticed as many flaws an dproblems in a woman as when sitting with a coupla camhos watching her.
mircea_popescu: bounce just a little defensive, because not erryday gets to discuss his headpenis, and in public to boot!
mircea_popescu: it's a matter of methodology not of scope. the how, not the what.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves obviously i can appreciate thinking is a process, and one has to make sense of one's [intellectual] history, etc.
mircea_popescu: but the particular definition you gave indicates to the compiler, were the compiler human, that a) you hadn't considered it before using it and b) as defined prolly doesn't serve you in any sense.
mircea_popescu: now, it's entirely your privilege, as the human in this relationship, to define function x any way you please
mircea_popescu: you say "hyper abstract". this is like in code, calling function X. compiler (me) goes wait, wut ? so you go "function X () { random banal shit; }"
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves not at all. i mean something quite specific :
mircea_popescu: somehow i've never noticed it before, but chicks in this country have positively gorgeous hair
mircea_popescu: you gonna get butthurt if i tell you your though process would drastically benefit from more rigor ?
mircea_popescu: whereas for all you know in bitcoin twelve whales get together in a secret chan somehwere and that's how the price moves ?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves do you understand that as dubious as charts are generally, which we won't rehash, at least generally there's the atomic market ?
mircea_popescu: maybe my needs are unrepresentative, but i find they're served equally well by any of the older providers. bitcoincharts, bitcoinity, whatevers.
mircea_popescu: generally what everyone thinks is the thing to do is wrong, which is why the "never compete in saturated markets" advice's served me so well over the years.
mircea_popescu: not to be a parade pisser, but there's problems lurking.
mircea_popescu: putting most work into != trying hardest necessarily. besides, what's this hardest, taking exchange feeds ?
mircea_popescu: this being kinda why all the however many exchange feed centralizers went nowhere.
mircea_popescu: everyone does want to know the price, but a speshal few know you wouldn't know anyway.
mircea_popescu: you will become the reddit index provider, which is not how you feed that market. you don't make goof stuff for the consumers, you make cheap shitty stuff for them
mircea_popescu: you won't become the dominant index provider because people who matter don't chart and people who chart don't matter.
mircea_popescu: that's the risk, you put the work in, "traders" love it, then it turns out the "traders" are 500 redditards all sunk to the hilt in bitfinex/bitjam/whatever
mircea_popescu: what have all these other schmucks been doing ever since this chan started ?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves the way people do. you write down the task, break it up, write down the parts, break them up, read up on the topics, implement, refine...
mircea_popescu: "oh, everything is on wikipedia" is not curation. why the fuck would i want google to return a wikipedia result in the first place, what, as if i don't know they probably have a shitty article sort-of talking around topic x ?
mircea_popescu: and google is the shittiest curator imaginable. people in commie romania thought they had it bad, but this is pointedly worse.
mircea_popescu: it'd certainly be useful for linux-y types, me and google divorced when it took out the operands.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i suspect this is like the "myspace, music industry killer" idea a decade ago. yeah, it'd work, if people didn't suck. people do suck, and as a result, myspace dies.
mircea_popescu: jurov which is why this is so useful : try and do it for search, high volume and low risk, see if anything useful can be done algorithmically.
mircea_popescu: a distributed replacement for google might be a pretty damned good idea
mircea_popescu: well the way i read it it's not referring to anything, merely refusing to commit to anything.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller so look straight in buffett's letters.
mircea_popescu: i'd be much suprised if ibm actually MADE anything, even a decade ago.