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BingoBoingo: Well, I had the sell order sitting there for
a nearly
a month, but Uppity Tortilla seemed to push it though. Once I have the email it sold I placed the buy and withdrew. I more gamble than trade though.
mircea_popescu: and you know,
a sucker is me for not having sold out at 250 or w/e.
mircea_popescu: well, why is it hard ? that's why the long term strategy is
a long term strategy.
krlbrgmn: but when you see
a 25% decrease in the price, it's hard to keep calm
mircea_popescu: the stories you hear about "ordinary citizens just like you" daytrading for
a profit are mostly fake.
mircea_popescu: in general it's
a good idea to set
a long term strategy and follow that.
krlbrgmn: is it
a wise thing to buy back in?
krlbrgmn: oh well, the fuckers got me into
a bear trap
krlbrgmn: 25% can be considered
a flash crash, or not?
mircea_popescu: Vexual the idea to school people comes from
a desire to have them powerful and idnependent citizens, rather than worthless dependent subjects.
Vexual: if one was to create
a programming language, then the idea is to school people
BingoBoingo: I will confess John Dewey ruined 'Murica's chance of having
a philosophical legacy.
mircea_popescu: and i don't want to school anyone, there's about 10mn people pretending they are schooling
a hundred million kids in the us.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, it was the age before you could deform
a turtle into
a peanut. Before and greater than James there was this Charles Pierce fellow, but he ate garbage even though in set theory papers are still now not uncommonly found to have proofs he offered earlier. Logic isn't quite philosophy though either.
mircea_popescu: hardly
a point. this seems the three year old's expectation that his mother will feed him because she can.
Vexual: you could throttle every internet user today to 300 bps and give them
a book on asm.. one guy would make the porn come fast
mircea_popescu: well ok, but psychology is not philosophy. and for that matter, really difficult to argue it into much more than
a fashionable lady passtime.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There was once. This fellow William James at
a point finally overcame his neuroses and condensed his principles of psychology into Psychology
a Briefer course. Then his own dementia and this Dewey asshole had to undo his good work.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I took
a seminar on the Kritik der reinen Vernunft where after covering the transcendental aesthetic and analytic the professor just stopped. The transendental dialectic, pure reason, and the doctrine of method remained. In
a graduate seminar where physical hunger ought be expected of the students. Thus I stopped taking academic philosophy seriously as covered in the program.
Vexual: the comparative success of peeps at the pointy ends of
a bell curve isn't realteable to the hardship of the masses
mircea_popescu: it's funny, they go to all this trouble to make school as much like
a prison as possible, but then fail to take advantage of any of the implicit benefits.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: They probably ought not be so separated, but when
a 'Murican school feeds all of the students like the football team everyone gets fat and no one really wants for anything. Having heavy
a fat offensive line undermines the school's educational mission.
mircea_popescu: "either write
a chess program in asm or starve for one month" seems
a perfectly healthy proposition for any 20 year old to confront.
BingoBoingo: Once I finally got internet access programming the computers fell into the backseat and finding pr0n on the computers moved to the fore.
A failure of education may be one factor. There is probably also
a failure of inflicting hunger as well though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: At some point even
a big head faile unless is surrenders to the aspersorzing. The TI-89 and the 0x0 Macs were the last machines I remember assembler and BASIC flavors being comparably organizable, though my experience in the matter is limited.
mircea_popescu: it's
a homologuous problem to beating the machine in the numbers game earlier.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Probably, but it is quite
a leap creating code that can be organized in assembly for the TI-89 and assembler for
a modern x86 chip. I imagine the leap to the assembler OCL compile to would be still harder to organize.
BingoBoingo: Of course. As are people trying to substitute interpreters for compilers
a la the Lisp machine.
mircea_popescu: well poorly optimised compilers are really
a distantly related subdiscussion
BingoBoingo: I mean the armory wallet is
a python program where going through the interpreter on Linux it is unbearably slow though when compiled for Windows it was fast.
mircea_popescu: lisp started doing the same thing strictly out of frustration, like the geek that's now wearing
a new jockstrap each week maybe he gets to be as popular with the young ditzes as the jock
mircea_popescu: no, language is
a fine distinction. the practical choice one has today is still the same one had in 1960 : eiher something algol-like, something haskel-like, something lisp-like or perhaps an stack insanity
a la asm.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Depends on what you mean by code. Language would probably be
a dubious distinction. The way they organize their code is probably the point.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
A form of Eulora is available. I wonder how many people might want to buy 5+ Demigod or Lich characters in Eulora versus people who might see
a need for as many Cardanos.
BingoBoingo: I'm still inclined to believe
a production Cardano will ship before Euloria hits production.
BingoBoingo: I might also be
a bit drunk to math, but... I was under the impression S.NSA and S.MG were both 100 million shares and S.BBET was 10. I may have mathed or contracted wrong though.
BingoBoingo: I think the new idiots are going to take us to
a new high
taub: basically means "yea there was
a huge selloff, no big deal got absorbed, on we go"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well the f or the h pawn depending on how he decides to struggle. Preferably the f though to avoid
a forced stalemate.
BingoBoingo: I have
a feeling raw IQ like mining probably has fundamental problems in that the people anticipating profits don't know how to wipe.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Wait
a bit, nubbins` needs to learn this chess thing
mod6: yeah, back this spring it went down for quite
a long time.
nubbins`: gribble: MtGox lag is 580874.405675 seconds. During this time, light travels 1164.06580518 AU. You could have sent
a bitcoin from the Sun to heliopause (out of the solar system!) (100 AU).
gribble: MtGox lag is 1.011352 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.00202673808434 AU. You could have sent
a bitcoin across the outer diameter of Saturn's rings (0.0024 AU).
nubbins`: will do, pretty hectic these days but i'm sure i can find somewhere to set
a board up
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: PM me if you want to start
a game.
nubbins`: used to play via SMS with
a friend who moved away. two boards + algebraic notation ;)
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: How are the ones who sold at 4+ doing though... Sometimes that lack of
a proper market helps enrich the tards.
mircea_popescu: ense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is
in some small way to become evil oneself. Ones standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed.
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
BingoBoingo: I'll search the logs, might be
a while. Or maybe I'm trippin balls. Probably the latter.
mircea_popescu:
a guy with
a name like darryl strawberry should be involved in the child sex trade, not fucking drugs
BingoBoingo: dub: He was
a ball player. He actually looks healthier now.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, there have been some in North America too. It is
a situation where differing definitions of recovery and diagnoses conflict. I've had
a cousin who while in the service got an AIDs shot in an experiment and still has something resembling an immune system though, so...
dub: mdma is considered perfectly safe and quite useful for
a number of things
dub: theres
a pretty narrow band in whih ketamine is 'fun'
a lot of users know this and avoid it
dub: asciilifeform: so you worked with
a bunch of drug users
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: that's
a lot of Cardanos ;)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe you send some federal magistrates Cardanos as
a promotion?
nubbins`: hell, if i had
a dollar for every time i achieved complete awareness
nubbins`: if i had
a dollar for every "allegedly"...
BingoBoingo: Once they take you further than that... You have to start hedging vague memories of
a past you with the word allegedly.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It is an anesthetic, but more than anything exotic it has
a good feel. If I was picking an antihistamine to be addicted to I'd probably go with mirtazapine.
dub: I've mainlined it recreationally, not
a whole lot of fun
nubbins`: forgot that "sleep" is
a euphemism in pet-world
nubbins`: hell, i'm not having
a cigarette this very moment
dub: just dont be
a bitch
nubbins`: i just haven't had
a cigarette in two years
VanCleef: the only to quit smoking is to be locked away on
a island somewhere with
a girl where you cant buy smokes and everytime u get
a craving get
a gobbie instead
nubbins`: i'm still
a smoker, and always will be
mike_c: i.e. your mind still remembers nicotine as
a great way to relieve stress
mircea_popescu: this entire tobacco is addictive talk is hogwash. i've been smoking for about twenty years now, at the rate of about one pack
a month
nubbins`: and if it's not
a big problem, why quit?
nubbins`: well, it's
a much more innocent habit on the surface, too, which makes it seem like less of
a problem
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Coke is
a relatively easy quit though. Really
a take or leave it sort of thing. Tobacco is
a bit more insidious though. On top of half your neurons containing nicotinic-cholinergic receptors there are
a bunch of mono-amine reductase inhibitors in tobacco which are much less frequently mentioned.
BingoBoingo: Congrats nubbins` if you mean tobacco. If you were talking powder though that isn't so big of
a deal.
nubbins`: well, no, but most people would choose not to snort
a line of it, given the choice
mircea_popescu: actually i think you can't even find
a "food supplement" that doesn't include it.
BingoBoingo: Then there's the part where lung tissue tends to atrophy in the presence of cocaine in
a way it can't for nicotine since humans generally have
a bunch of enzymes ready to break down cholinergics like nicotine, though not so much for cocaine.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: More toxic yes, but mostly from combustion byproducts. The bicarbonates that make the crack
a rock generally don't stay very benign when they burn.
BingoBoingo: Well, the speed at which you can reach
a decent serum concentration generally makes
a difference on end effect.
mircea_popescu: you know, people who specify CRACKwhore make me thing ladyboys are
a lot more popular than i imagine.
VanCleef: its funny when they really look like
a crackwhore
VanCleef: i met
a crackwhore the other night at
a nightclub
VanCleef: yeh right some fat virgin nerd is going to leave their grandmothers basement to do
a hit
VanCleef: my dad died as
a terrorist show some respect