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Tue Mar 08 23:36:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> williamdunne not that there's any hurry. lemme see, something that's more accessible, perhaps interesting, not very ro context-y...
Tue Mar 08 23:35:45 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> assbot> Report: Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Larry Page meet to halt Trump?s ascendancy << somebody's worried about being cutoff from wasting public funds to maintain their "businesses" or wut.
Tue Mar 08 23:35:41 UTC 2016 <williamdunne> mircea_popescu: Do you have anything in particular that you would care to see translated, ideally something that isn't literal poetry? Yeah I've only just started picking RO up, so it would probably be a slow process..
Tue Mar 08 23:34:32 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform> wtf would anyone bet when the dial says '0.99 << it's about even money neh ?
Tue Mar 08 23:32:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> williamdunne> nubbins`: tbf while using the company wallet << there is no such thing as "the company wallet".
Tue Mar 08 23:28:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hehehe. so go for it. but note that the guy was a native speaker. trilema, and especially ro trilema, is incredibly tense. in fact i do not believe harder source text exists in the whole 2k year history of the place.
Tue Mar 08 23:28:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which is why addition is a public matter and faith, not.
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 22:51:57 UTC 2016 <hanbot> so mircea_popescu do you suppose these people were hacked or something, ie some kinda inept Chinese-PR? even without nubbins` meltdown, you have PeterL, the ex-mildmannered professional chemist with a family, going http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-03-2016#1427105 like a five year old suddenly, what the fuck is this?!
Tue Mar 08 21:45:06 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> it represents the side of usg mircea_popescu likes to bring up, the threadbare zimbabwe side.