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I don't get it. Don't they get criminal charges when caught shoplifting? They get 6 months to 3 years in prison here.

Speaking of Japan: country has less legal guns than a small town in Texas, yet prime minister gets shot during a public appearance: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-08/former-japan-pm-abe-collapses-after-shots-heard-man-in-custody

I'd take Japan anytime to Antananarivo: Which is not to say that conditions in Japanese prison cannot be made more humane.

You know the concept, stuff like "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Here's Backstreet Boys of the Soviet Union: Apparently the band name is "The 20'th Congress of the Party", rofl :)

Und das ist mein kreig.

Being a generally intelligent NI (natural intelligence), I understand my frame of reference. I'll draw it out for you, see below. What I do and how I do it rests upon the deep desire to win the rat race while at the same time understanding my limitations and working around them.

When will people realize and have common sense that A VALID TRADING SYSTEM system is not just equal and limited to a working, infinite, money printing machine? Stupid "people" expect two unrealistic things: 1) Arbitrage systems. Which are by definition those systems where you can't lose and...

Interesting, never heard of Heartiste. On the other hand both these guys RooshV & Roissy seem to be certified nutcases. Like seriously off - I read their blogs more out of morbid curiosity than taking anything they say seriously. I mean like, the Taliban would find these guys extremists in...

Apparently it's covered by Grünbichler & Longstaff in "Valuing futures and options on volatility" : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0378426695000348 Took a quick look and it's the same formula I derived myself without knowledge of their work, only I eventually got bogged...

She's pwBPD (person with Borderline Personality Disorder). Fancy name for "crazy bitch" syndrome. They don't have to be fully insane, like medically diagnosable. But enough of the borderline traits make up a person that's difficult to live with without ending up hating their guts. I know coze...

On changing your son's entourage, it's a bit late at 16 years old. Lemme tell you my story. I attended the best class (computer science, started just a year before my application) at the best high school in the county (the largest subdivision of a nation state is a county). The admission exam...

To my knowledge (asked here), the model used to price options on VIX is Black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_model Which makes sense because just like my observation with options on plain stock indexes, you can't trade the index. So traders use the next best proxy, namely a future on it...

This is America so it's very strange from my perspective: 16 years old has (illegal) access to weed but cannot legally buy beer. When I grew up, getting alcohol as teenagers was a non issue. If you had money, they'd sell it to you: on the terrace of a bar in plain sight. I remember getting beer...

Good question. There's none yet, in fact I didn't even prepare the Zoom presentation that I'm advertising. The rationale behind this is a SALES FIRST mindset. Complete inversion of engineer's mindset, "build first, sell later". When and if I'll get enough interested clients, I'll put together...

I changed my strategy and started to get interested customers. I'll hold my first Zoom meeting where I present my system sometimes next week. Now, it's not just "a" system. I, by definition, cannot sell the $1,000,000,000,000 system rightaway for $50 to the first three guys that show interest...

I still use GoDaddy since I'm a comfortable lazy f*nk and it's easier to keep paying for a lukewarm service than make the effort to find something better (and possibly land out worse). Expect worse, btw. They're all a**oles.

The problem I have is that I got bored of playing video games. I can sometimes for very short times (5-10 minutes) play old games that I already know the gameplay but quickly I get tired and plain bored. It's probably the "toy cars" situation of my nephew. He was some 7 years old when he said...

This is the dystopian reality of productivity culture. Its mandate is never "You figured out how to do your tasks more efficiently, so you get to spend less time working." It is always: "You figured out how to do your tasks more efficiency, so you must now do more tasks."

"A user on Reddit forum who goes by the alias FiletOfFish1066 (referred to as Mr. Fish hereafter) has been let go by his company after it was discovered that Mr. Fish hadn't actually done anything for six years. Umm, well he did something, but nothing new and productive, his Bay Area-based firm...