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Tue Mar 08 23:27:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron> what is personal life? is there impersonal life? << funny enough, this actually came up in the harem recently. i liked the conclusion. public are all matters which can be expressed such that all the individuals who know of them can accept the expression. private is everything else.
Tue Mar 08 23:27:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the point is to crush, not to extend, the relevancy of old world idiocy into the new.
Tue Mar 08 23:26:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and why it is both wrong and stupid to entertain fiatista's pretense of re-interpreting bitcoin in fiatista terms.
Tue Mar 08 23:26:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ben_vouspes> mpex paying out bitbet bettors, megafuckinglol if true. << one day you'll comprehend what this "there is no bitcoin taint" thing means.
Tue Mar 08 23:25:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> williamdunne> Are people working on translating old Trilema articles from Romanian? << there was a guy, gabrielradio, did some so-so work. it is HARD.
Tue Mar 08 23:24:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the whole incident is certainly a fine example of why b-a and the world generally can't work as a "mp supported" thing. gotta be very expensive to be a lord, or else self-flattery is much to powerful a force.
Tue Mar 08 23:24:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> peterl is kinda the same, trying to hang on to the train, which is moving kinda fast and so on.
Tue Mar 08 23:23:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> then that bizarre theory got put to the test and it broke like a bridge made out of rickety reeds and now the unspeakable happened, and there is the mirror and oh god the horror.
Tue Mar 08 23:23:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> meanwhile other people did things, and there he sat on ass, thinking to himself "oh heh, am i fucking special - all these idiots are sweating bullets and i think i'm exactly the same as them but much smarter because I'm not even doing anything!". aka sprezzatura, ie what happens when you overfeed and underbeat the children.
Tue Mar 08 23:23:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> he sat in the chan counting his bellybutton lint for years, making inept arguments about pointless shit - he lost all of them, but hey, as long as mp doesn't come straight out with "you're stupid, go back to school" one needn't notice this actually happened, can just as well pretend that blabla.
Tue Mar 08 23:22:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hanbot nubbins` is just doing his trademark low hanging fruit thing, "what's the lowest effort thing i could possibly do to maintain the pretense i'm doing something". that's his coping mechanism with life, it "worked pretty well" or whatever, it's what he knows, it's what he does. there's a whole stack of these idiots running around like pointless chickens, i dunno that much need be explained.
Tue Mar 08 19:14:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> aite, so now you're sure.
Tue Mar 08 19:13:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what do you mean "still" ?!
Tue Mar 08 19:13:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL here's the thing : in my scrollback you appear as engaged in a lengthy monologue which twice now highlighted me. are you going to take a break on your own or do i have to ignore you for a while ?
Tue Mar 08 19:05:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i... get it. ok. very funny. sigh.
Tue Mar 08 19:05:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "As for requirement [4], my sofa may have bugs, such as mites, spiders, or maybe even fleas. However, I have found no evidence on the web that such invertebrates have the power to cause theft of anything, much less theft of digital assets on other sidechains."
Tue Mar 08 19:05:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> bah, talk of a good idea badly executed. why is this schmuck so humourless ?
Tue Mar 08 19:04:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> oh oh.
Tue Mar 08 19:03:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i dunno, stolfi's nonsense.
Tue Mar 08 19:02:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> fluffypony is this some sort of dig at monero or something ?