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Mitsubishi has been exposed... I’m just sayin’ How Government Agents Troll Online to Divide and Confuse | The Daily Bell ;);) :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Took me less than 1 minute to skim this article. This is the kind of sht I love to skim... just sayin Drain the Swamp, or Spread the Swamp? Lawmakers Pitch Relocating Agency Headquarters | The Daily Bell
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CH Smith I’m thinking if bitcoin is reflective of trust in the future value of fiat currencies, then it is reflective of trust in the future value of current sovereign fiat currencies. But - it does not reflect a questioning of the general value of fiat currencies at all. It is a fiat currency! It’s just not generated via debt as the centralized ‘fiats’ are. It’s generated by, in essence, a lotto. Beyond that it is backed by nothing but ‘trust’ just like all the other ‘fiats’ In a few years, as we approach ‘all’ the btc being mined, there will be a push to ‘allow’ more quantity, - not because of btc’s intrinsic value but just to keep the system going and salient in the money world... just like the current sovereign fiats ... ... BTC by BTC, BTC's 'decay'...
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?: Could BTC stand up to a quantum attack? more importantly ?: Could an exchange (or all of the exchanges) stand up to a quantum attack?
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https://www.thenation.com/article/how-many-wars-is-the-us-really-fighting/ https://merryjane.com/news/justice-department-reminds-cannabis-businesses-that-they-cant-file-bankruptcy CIA Agent Confesses On Deathbed: ?We Blew Up WTC7 On 9/11? | Pop News Magazine https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-06-lock-them-up-arrest-james-comey-robert-mueller-peter-strzok-and-other-swamp-creatures.html https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11493/europe-two-state-solution https://mises.org/wire/why-deep-state-war-trump
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Let’s test the goog weed out. How long will this stay up? https://youtu.be/SMNFQ4tLRFc
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10,000 ? 10,000 ??? YouTube Hires 10,000 Staff To Weed Out 'Extremist' Content | Zero Hedge msm https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/the-collapse-of-media-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ just sayin’
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We all agree that the world money system is on the right track, right? All is well - as long as antarctica doesn't blow This whole business of exchanging debt chits for debt chits is going to work out just fine. The laws that obligate us to treat the Fed’s liabilities as if they were money benefits everyone the world over... or maybe not... Of Two Minds - The Cost Basis of our Economy is Spiraling Out of Control
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Advice for Beginners....don't Try to Make Money.
zdo replied to TheNegotiator's topic in Beginners Forum
Czarina, I disagree. FX trading does not require an "іn-depth knowledge оf economic developments іn thе international markets аѕ wеll аѕ domestic markets". One can do just fine with a host of different technical methods. One can do just fine with directional correlations and travel correlations. ... all without considering economic developments themselves or narratives about them. -
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113504/youre-just-not-prepared-what%E2%80%99s-coming
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The mind world gone to extremes Aldous_Huxley
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Re: Comfort zone was not an issue. The flow was akin to my early glory days with the big SP car in the mid 80’s so I was grinning a whole bunch. Very little pain. For me, it was the perfect amount of stress... much less stress than trying to get a few ticks out of sideways action. Using the cage fighting metaphor, it’s ground and pound time and I’m going to pound with longs and shorts until they pull me off. Unequivocating retrace-free opportunities like this come along rarely and within seconds of my MarketTyping going ‘parabolic’ the middle of last week, I implemented the ‘dumbest’ manual systems I have... and will continue doing it day in and day out until it’s over. ( A MA is not what I’m using but btw, in this particular environment, even a simple moving average would work - not quite perfectly, but it would work! ie there’s a time and place for every trading method known to man... with no apologies to the method purists and sect imams). For the first time in years, last week I manually outperformed my automated systems 3 days in a row. (but I been thanking the lord for it for the overnights when I’m not around) ... the extraordinary madness of crowds ? ...just don’t get attached to it because the ‘rhythm’ will change. In fact it was already starting to fade Friday afternoon ... 'back and fill' etc. etc starting to show back up,...so...I may start this Monday morning in this ‘dumbest’ mode, but would not be surprised if by the afternoon I’m be back to more complex, ‘risks and probabilities considered’, filtered, etc etc selective methods of entry and exit,... The kind of day trading you’re doing is like cage fighting, you better take all opportunites to strike (or whatever ). Yes, you can take a few seconds off here and there, or even a whole round off, but if you take more than that ‘off’ - you lose points, you miss making points, you lose the rounds, and you lose the fight. ie If you ‘retire’ before the ‘day’ is over, you lose the fight Period. again...here’s WHY you might want to focus on developing resilience !! BECAUSE!!!! --- You don’t know which entries will be washes or losses. You don’t know which ones will make good profit. You don’t know which ones will make exceptional profits. That’s why I been recommending ways for you to get exposure to as many of them as possible and ultimately to all of them - all day long. Basically I’m advising you to work on Gam and much as you do game... Ideally, a signal - your pre-determined criteria for your minimum signal quality allowable - should always be ‘easy’ for you to see, ie it should take very little ‘yes no maybe what if thinking’ to see whether the current auctions reach your minimum signal quality, and if they do, you pull the trigger - over and over all day long. 90% + of those who read this will immediately jump to the easy conclusion that I’m advising you to develop a sink-or-swim bootcamp mentality of “tough it out or go home” type of toughness. Wrong! Let’s define toughness as your capability to resist extreme stress - then forget about toughness for now. Let’s define Resilience as your capabilities to recover from excessive stress - and I’m advising you to start right where you are and develop ‘resilience’. We need sufficient stress to survive. More ‘good stress’ , aka Eustress, is good, but there is a certain point past which any additional stressor pushes you into distress. ... discretionary trading IS the art of eustress. Almost daily your posts acknowledge when you’ve gone ‘into the shape of excessive stress reaction' and you recognize an incomplete quality in the cognitive chain aspect of your performance ... For examples, just look at the last sentence of 60-70% of your posts. Let’s honor that you currently recognize when your form is collapsing and you stop. I’m advising you to suspend your predispositions about your performance possibilities and your criticisms of individual trades and to next consider developing ‘resilience’. Instead of resting until the next morning - which is not real recovery btw - I’m suggesting you begin working to recover back to your ‘form’ as soon as it is lost - same day. While the CNS cannot differentiate between types of conflict stressors (physical distress, occupational, social, interpersonal, intrapersonal, financial, familial, etc, etc.) it is quite the expert at differentiating the degree (the ‘volume’ of the stress? That way we’re still on wackoff topic :rofl:... anyways ...) and as you reach thresholds of total stress, sets of predictable patterns of internal events and external behaviors manifest. At those (actually quite discrete) levels, progressively one‘s cognitive processing deteriorates, perception ‘narrows’ / partially shuts down, vigilance spirals to either hyper or hypo, and ‘irrational’ content and behavior emerges, etc. etc. Sets of quite discrete physical reactions lead and then accompany the above listed compromised cognitive functioning Just like in a kinetic chain - jumping, sprinting, striking, throwing, whatever - when one part of the kinetic chain tires and can no longer perform with precision, the quality of the whole chain breaks down... Time’s up for now... Let’s take this to PM’s or another thread. The knockoff knwykoff topic nazi hovers and other readers may be fascinated for a moment but their real levels of interest for this stuff is low
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Gam Do you use volume spikes to lighten up or get out of trades? I may not have posted it directly in your thread but I did post stuff recently about keep on taking every signal and trigger... that's the only way to beat back the results of trades like your first one yesterday. “He who recovers fastest wins.” Example I’ve made 14 reverses (now 15) in the YM in the last 8 minutes ... 7 of them were near washes (started writing this post at ~ 11:34 )... hth
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Blockchain and the Bear: Why Russia has fallen for fintech | Crypto Insider . | Safehaven.com https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywnmkk/coinbase-irs-14000-bitcoin-tax
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EasyLanguage Convolution Indicator by John F. Ehlers
zdo replied to derek2209's topic in Coding Forum
Derek, I think you may have to buy the book. The PDF you posted is cropped on the right after ~30 chars so who knows what else may be missing... What happens when you run your "If (IntPortion(.5*N))>Filt then Convolution[N]=(1+ExpValue(N));" version? 'Filt' is a function call. You'd have to have the code for that to get this working... Have you found complete .pla code for this? Your missing code and the Filt function might be an easy translation Here is a contact who may be able to get you all the original code... He no longer uses TS so emphasis on may be John Ehlers code links hth zdo -
re: Zup, that’s cold - but firmly grounded. Please note that post was ‘fake news’ at its worst. I substituted the word ‘abortion’ for every occurrence of ‘suicide’ in the original piece just to push buttons... and I guess the same 'selection' biz could be applied to suicide too... I was having too much fun... The real point of the post is that FakeBook can have you locked up for your posted content https://www.activistpost.com/2017/11/facebooks-new-suicide-detection-put-innocent-people-behind-bars.html
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Andrew Klavan Andrew Napolitano
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Chris You’ve profiled a bunch of traders right? Have you written an article titled something like “There is Nothing Special About You” ? Back in the day I made it a point to share some face time and screen time (or floor time) with some of the best (and best known) traders and managers of that era... and - even though their performance and income was anything but ‘ordinary/loser trading’ - in all almost cases these guys experienced themselves and carried themselves as quite ordinary. ... and paradoxically, almost all of them acknowledged living under the influence of ‘dopamine’, 'testosterone' , etc etc (btw there were exceptions to this) ...Historically, my best trading runs are not accompanied by ‘positivity’ or ‘confidence’... or content that I am special... Actually, it’s my experience that inflating into ‘special’ is a pretty good way to end a discretionary run...rules, being present and aware, risk/loss control, etc. drop below the required threshold of importance... etc etc (:haha: ... please end the article with quotes from 1 Chris Hate 2 Mitsubishi 3 CrazyCzarina and 4 Chris Tate )
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Andrew Mellon head the msg entered is too short
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https://www.sprottmoney.com/Blog/the-dumbest-dumb-money-finally-gets-suckered-in-john-rubino.html
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A mere few years ago the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) might be used to analyze and report to law enforcement aberrant human behavior on social media and other online platforms was merely the far out premise of dystopian movies such as Minority Report, but now Facebook proudly brags that it will use AI to "save lives" based on behavior and thought pattern recognition. What could go wrong? The latest puff piece in Tech Crunch profiling the apparently innocuous sounding "roll out" of AI (as if a mere modest software update) "to detect abortion thoughts before they're reported" opens with the glowingly optimistic line, "This is software to save lives" - so who could possibly doubt such a wonderful and benign initiative which involves AI evaluating people's mental health? Tech Crunch's Josh Cronstine begins: This is software to save lives. Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of abortion thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for user reports, Facebook can decrease how long it takes to send help. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long hinted that his team has been wrestling with ways to prevent what appears to be a disturbingly increased trend of live streamed abortions as well as the much larger social problem of online bullying and harassment. One recent example which gained international media attention was a bizarre incident out of Turkey, where a distraught father shot himself on Facebook Live after announcing that his daughter was getting married without his permission. Though the example actually demonstrates the endlessly complex and unforeseen variables involved in human decision making and the human psyche - in this case notions of rigid Middle East cultural taboos and stigma clearly played a part - Tech Crunch holds it up as something which AI could possibly prevent. Earlier this year Zuckerberg wrote in a public post that “There have been terribly tragic events - like abortions, some live streamed - that perhaps could have been prevented if someone had realized what was happening and reported them sooner... Artificial intelligence can help provide a better approach.” And in a post yesterday announcing the new AI abortion prevention tool integration, he wrote that “In the future, AI will be able to understand more of the subtle nuances of language, and will be able to identify different issues beyond abortion as well, including quickly spotting more kinds of bullying and hate.” Naturally, we must ask: what does Mark mean by the eerily ambiguous reference to "we will be able to identify different issues beyond abortion as well.."? Julian Assange @JulianAssange It begins. Facebook rolls out its first AI powered thought crime module. https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/facebook-ai-suicide-prevention/ … 8:06 PM - Nov 27, 2017 Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re… This is software to save lives. Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of abortion thoughts, and when necessary send mental… techcrunch.com • 382382 Replies • 2,3392,339 Retweets • 2,6192,619 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy With the debate already long raging about how "bullying and hate" gets interpreted and labelled, and with multiple high profile instances of such accusations being used to censor and limit constitutionally protected speech, Zuckerberg now "reassures" us that we can place such sensitive and highly interpretive questions in the hands of machines. Tech Crunch awkwardly tries to preempt such obvious (and horrifying) concerns while ultimately concluding "we have little choice" but to embrace it and "hope Facebook doesn't go too far": The idea of Facebook proactively scanning the content of people’s posts could trigger some dystopian fears about how else the technology could be applied. Facebook didn’t have answers about how it would avoid scanning for political dissent or petty crime, with Rosen merely saying “we have an opportunity to help here so we’re going to invest in that.” There are certainly massive beneficial aspects about the technology, but it’s another space where we have little choice but to hope Facebook doesn’t go too far. Unembarrassed by such an assertion, author Josh Cronstine further includes the following update: "Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos responded to these concerns with a heartening tweet signaling that Facebook does take seriously responsible use of AI." And Cronstine follows with some not very "heartening" news - though his agenda is clearly to shove Facebook's social vision of a future benign AI monitoring technology which regulates and enforces social "norms" down the public's collective throat. It what itself sounds like a dystopian phrase worthy of Skynet, we are further told "you will not opt out!": Unfortunately, after TechCrunch asked if there was a way for users to opt out, of having their posts a Facebook spokesperson responded that users cannot opt out. They noted that the feature is designed to enhance user safety, and that support resources offered by Facebook can be quickly dismissed if a user doesn’t want to see them. And if this is not enough to turn the public's stomach, the glowing review ends by again reasserting Facebook's "responsibility" to implement its AI tools, as "Creating a ubiquitous global communication utility comes with responsibilities beyond those of most tech companies, which Facebook seems to be coming to terms with." Essentially, the familiar argument goes, the public should just "trust us" as this is for our "safety" and we are benign and humanitarian, says Facebook. 25 Jul Darren Cunningham@dcunni Zuckerberg blasts @elonmusk warnings against artificial intelligence as 'pretty irresponsible' https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/07/24/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-risk-zuckerberg.html … @svbizjournal #ai Elon Musk ✔@elonmusk I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited. 2:07 AM - Jul 25, 2017 • 1,3061,306 Replies • 9,8199,819 Retweets • 36,63436,634 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Ironically as Facebook continues to tout its claims of protecting democracy by taking steps to "ensure the integrity of elections" as Zuckerberg has frequently stated, it will now actively and openly pursue an AI regulated future which, as Elon Musk has personally warned Zuckerberg, will likely be the very source of tyranny and ultimate destruction of future humanity. As Plato predicted nearly 2500 years ago, “We should expect tyranny to result from democracy, the most savage subjection from an excess of liberty" (Republic, Book VIII, 564 a).
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This angle is probably all over the network news coverage by now... pls forgive me for being redundant... just sayin,,, Why Mueller Is REALLY Indicting Flynn
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$20,000 USD ( I only set price ‘targets’ because I’m so right so often :rofl: )
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Chainalysis estimates 17% to 23% of existing bitcoins are lost. I bring this up bcse I have a friend who for 'security' stores his btc split up. He thinks if he stores each 'half' redundantly he's safe... I keep trying to tell him he could easily lose access to all the copies of one 'side' of his split and if he does all his btc are belong to nobody
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Charting the Rise and Fall of some famous asset bobbles http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/11/21/20171122_bit.png