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mircea_popescu: if indeed he delivers something like 500th in two weeks am is going back to a decent 10-15% then
mircea_popescu: selling coffee brewed from miner waste heat is probably more profitable than deploying the miners too.
mircea_popescu: long long ago on a planet far far away, known only as "this spring"
mircea_popescu: well it's good that they're keeping to their promise not to 50% the network.
mircea_popescu: and you know, a sucker is me for not having sold out at 250 or w/e.
mircea_popescu: you know your own circumstance, make some long term predictions and split your effort accordingly.
mircea_popescu: well, that's something you'd have to come up with on your own.
mircea_popescu: well, why is it hard ? that's why the long term strategy is a long term strategy.
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.
mircea_popescu: yeah, kinda par for the course here. you certainly can't say "crash" if the price isn't at day lows.
mircea_popescu: im sorry, price is 200, day min max is 175/233. what flash crash ?
mircea_popescu: Vexual the idea to school people comes from a desire to have them powerful and idnependent citizens, rather than worthless dependent subjects.
mircea_popescu: and i don't think dewey ruined anything. i think dewey just "cut through the cuts that were there" as the old azn story goes.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the list is longer than pierce, who is imo respectable, but exactly : logic is logic, and "utilitarianism" isn't much philosophy.
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.
mircea_popescu: hardly a point. this seems the three year old's expectation that his mother will feed him because she can.
mircea_popescu: schooling is all about putting people in controlled environment designed for their changing.
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.
mircea_popescu: maybe if some actual philosopher ever visited and felt inclined to talk to the hordes, which seems improbable.
mircea_popescu: i don't know americans ever had the opportunity to listen to philosophy lectures in their country.
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.
mircea_popescu: well... it's easier, and more comfortable, and always easier to find cheap waitresses than cheap mistresses, so...
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.
mircea_popescu: see, im not sure why hunger and education'd be separate issues.
mircea_popescu: that this isn't required of sophomore it students in the west speaks more of the poor quality of it education in the west.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact asm is quite transparent and quite transparently used by actually competent programmers, such as malware creators.
mircea_popescu: this is basically institutional laziness created to not throw the curve for black people.
mircea_popescu: it's a homologuous problem to beating the machine in the numbers game earlier.
mircea_popescu: the balance is between (laziness, ignorance and their offspring) in the human operator on one end and (sugar spice and everything nice) in the machine on the other.
mircea_popescu: this is untrue. writing directly in assembler is both the most control and the most speed.
mircea_popescu: well poorly optimised compilers are really a distantly related subdiscussion
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: im not sure what's fashionable now that java and ruby are dead, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: c has been repackaged 12+ times in the intervening 50 years to appeal to retarded teenagers
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.
mircea_popescu: competent people still use the 1950s C and the 1970s C compiler
mircea_popescu: retards imagine "all new code" is better, as if code rusted.
mircea_popescu: in general in computer science people split into two groups, ie, the retards and the competent, by the code they use.
mircea_popescu: i doubt there will be five liches active at any one time in eulora.
mircea_popescu: at least in their lifecycle. eulora for that matter is already available.
mircea_popescu: no. s.nsa sold ~4mn, which became the total authorised float. s.mg sold ~88mn, which became the total authorised float
mircea_popescu: still, probably the one applciation of asciilifeform's slavecoin
mircea_popescu: (in the sense the 100 iq average is periodically resampled)
mircea_popescu: by the way, didja know fiat-iq is also inflation prone ?
mircea_popescu: so who here has heard the term "neoreactionary" before ?
mircea_popescu: ense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s 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.”
mircea_popescu: “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their s
mircea_popescu: a guy with a name like darryl strawberry should be involved in the child sex trade, not fucking drugs