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james-imitative

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james-imitative··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
> It's that I'm looking at / living a shot from a movie in realtime

Sounds really cool! I do that too!

james-imitative··on Google YOLO clickjacking (2018)
Unenumerated
james-imitative··on Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims
This has been happening in Peru, Uganda, Bolivia and Grenada.
james-imitative··on Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims
> Such an accusation would need to untangle the coordination behavior of the money wormhole to make its case, and those inner workings could be made very convoluted indeed, hidden deep inside complementary pseudorandom behavior.

In such a case, it may be (fscking) helpful for the courts of law to go after the people who _didn't clearly break_ the law in the first place. That way, the shady Machiavellians get caught first and the chumps can be mopped up afterwards. Deep as anythink.

james-imitative··on Autistic futures trader who triggered flash crash spared prison
Yes, some autistic people have "childish" beliefs like that.
james-imitative··on Autistic futures trader who triggered flash crash spared prison
> Given he lives in England why was he extradited to the US?

This scares me a great deal. Totally bonkers totalitarianism from a rogue state.

james-imitative··on Autistic futures trader who triggered flash crash spared prison
Agreed.
james-imitative··on Autistic futures trader who triggered flash crash spared prison
> Before his own indictment, Sarao himself lost millions in assets to fraudsters who found him uniquely gullible and easy to cheat, his lawyer said.

The irony is that he had millions in assets in the first place. Lol.

james-imitative··on We should take moral advice from computers and not the other way around
Please unlearn this reading habit. ;)
james-imitative··on Being a Noob
STFU, noob.
james-imitative··on Being a Noob
This a million percent.
james-imitative··on Being a Noob
On StackOverflow I have twice as many answers as I have questions. But yeah, same.
james-imitative··on Being a Noob
What I dislike is a situation where I feel like I _ought_ to be a noob, or feel like a noob, or be acting like a noob, but other people treat like an expert who doesn't realise that he is acting like a noob.