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assbot: Logged on 22-12-2015 14:57:33; mircea_popescu: it looks like
trilema's going
to get moved off php at
this rate.
thestringpuller: just gotta rip
the plugin code bingoboingo gave me for archives and categories and have pages for
that and it'll be ready for action.
ben_vulpes: and you even have
to ask re homeschooling?
pete_dushenski: $product is unrelated
to $bezzlecorp ? or do i misunderstand
the segmentation
there
ben_vulpes: but in
the meantime, must
tend
to $bezzlecorp, meatwot, $product, fambly etc.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: how do you figure ?
the auto-car
thread is just a good example of wishful
thinking
that some prototype is
the guaranteed fyootoor. no different
than google glass, e-books, iot, etc.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: write a curriculum, write incorporation docs for
the federated states of cascadia,
tango,
the odd simulation problem
that's been nagging, low-profile nearly-submersibles...
pete_dushenski: actually osborne's
tax might minimise
the blast radius of a black swan by pushing wanna-bes
to
the exits before
the next "no one could've predicted"
ben_vulpes dreams of
the popescuian luxury of
time
pete_dushenski: " In fact, contrary
to Mr Osborne’s suggestion,
the only buy-to-let investors who will not be hit are
the very wealthy who buy property in cash and who don’t need a mortgage."
adlai: sometimes you gotta
tempt fate else she'll never
tempt youback
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 01:36:22; mircea_popescu: fucktard. i'd be worried about
the sms from
the bush a lot more if i was dealing billions with
this schmuck.
adlai: shame, i'd have paid
to see how high
the head flew
adlai: ;;later
tell
therealascii fix dat key
thing! or is it kako's fault
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: 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.
pete_dushenski: british were in sea war with asia as well around
the same
time, ya ?
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.
pete_dushenski: also "hey, check out
the sweet gov of mex account we scored. brownie points all around!"
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: 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: 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.
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 00:43:06; kakobrekla: i was actually
trying
to dig up more info on
these 'fake letters of advice' yesterday and couldnt find shit.
mircea_popescu: part and parcel of
the original design was
this refactoring of patches./
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 00:39:31; asciilifeform: in
the sense
that presently patch Q is said
to have patch P as an antecedent if ~any file~ in Q was modified by P
assbot: Logged on 27-12-2015 23:06:44; kakobrekla:
The required equipment was often purchased abroad and presented as someone’s personal design. By
the way, it was common practice in industry
throughout
the history of
the Soviet Union. For example, in
the 1980s a computer “EC1841” was designed for military purposes.
The designers even managed
to get
the USSR State Award. Later it
turned out
that Soviet computer chips had never been designed –
the
adlai: aka "adlai's
term for sheep-people"
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 00:31:22; assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 00:19:09; ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell adlai what was
the story with 'sheeple'?
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
punkman: head is what gets arbitrarily
toposorted
to
the
top?