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mircea_popescu: "the man who really invented bitcoin" has a lot to explain re my cock up his throat.
mircea_popescu: like the scam foundation never pushed bfl and so forth.
mircea_popescu: trinque let them get invested, all the more shit to pretend like "never happened".
mircea_popescu: and iirc xapo founder was trying his darndest to elicit attention here to little result.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> that's the new usg catchword for 'bitcoin agrees to quietly kill itself because That Is How The World Works' ? << in a word, yes.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's mostly a private joke, between /me and ex osu undergrad
mircea_popescu: fat loser had it : 20 years later america went hius way.
mircea_popescu: JERRY: (sarcastically)Ya, then maybe baldness will catch on. This will all be turning your way.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Really? (Jerry shakes his head) Maybe this will become like a cool thing, living with your parents.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be said that joining isis is both morally sounder and economically wiser a choice than applying to any us college.
mircea_popescu: cazalla pretty fucking stupid deal, yeah. who the fuck advises these people.
mircea_popescu: (much like the reformed us military is about as useless as sugared sardines)
mircea_popescu: mercenary troops wehre the late medieval/renaissance equivalent of art collecting.
mircea_popescu: "Furthermore, when the nobility went to war, they would employ foreign mercenaries as auxiliary troops." << this, in partiucular, is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: well they are, if you're looking at it. to the neurologist or w/e.
mircea_popescu: you can contrast it with ontology, or gnoseology for that matter. and obviously you can build other quite clever sturctures. but yours didn't mean anything is all.
mircea_popescu: not the point. the point is that "phenomenology" is directly equivalent with "which discusses things that happen"
mircea_popescu: trinque in any case "phenomenological thinking" is a void concept. thinking is not described by the subject it's applied to. you said something roughly like "lighting electrictiy". sure, it can be used to bring light.
mircea_popescu: (and the difference is quite understood by native english speakers, at that. consider how "universal karma" sounds vs "cosmic karma". which evokes govt bureaucracy and why ?)
mircea_popescu: as if you know. but hey, the sets are rheaaallly very important to them i tell you.
mircea_popescu: the latter are preoccupied chiefly with entrance barriers, and are debating, predictably, if building a wall across colorado is worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: and as you might realise, cosmos-focused cultures write fundamentally differfent software from universe-focused culturesa
mircea_popescu: trinque quite exactly : a cosmos is the graph of perceptibles. a universe is the set of perceptibles.
mircea_popescu: it is perhaps antiquated by now. but it's what rubens' good looking women were.
mircea_popescu: but can you explain the difference between graph and set ?
mircea_popescu: trinque can you explain the difference between cosmos and universe ?
mircea_popescu: whereas the idea of body as in "body politic" is all but dead in english, today.
mircea_popescu: three fucking words. because one's the mechanical body, and the other the biologic body, and the third the metaphysical body.
mircea_popescu: in romanian : au gasit ~corpul~ [neinsufletit] ; fumatul face rau ~organismului~ ; acesta este ~trupul~ lui hristos.
mircea_popescu: for instance, in english : "they found the body" (ie, corpse) ; "smoking is bad for the body" (ie, mechanism) ; this is the body of christ.
mircea_popescu: and yes this discussion of structure does merely belie much deeper divergence in the actual usage, which i suspect is driven by fundamental divergence in phylosophy.
mircea_popescu: "how representative of this person i consider my experience with them"
mircea_popescu: it is perhaps not an idle topic of inquiry to find how much of the rotten-ness of extant software stack mostly comes from the unfortunate happenstance that it was written by people who spoke english with their women.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field much like the british empire was a pretension, not a reality.
mircea_popescu: english, as spoken by the fucking queen, before they got the current crop of hamburg tavern wenches, was in point of fact an actual language.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no you can, check it out : man is the wolf of men / man is wolf to men.
mircea_popescu: but the main problem english faces is that it fails to make the complemet distinctions. in romanian : la baieti (to the boys) ; baietilor (to the boys). first tells you where, the 2nd whom.
mircea_popescu: it declines and you're supposed to guess from declension
mircea_popescu: and yes, about half the population doesn't get them right on the first try.
mircea_popescu: "are you a pleb or did your parents have enough spare food in your childhood to have the time to teach you the fucking cases"
mircea_popescu: incidentally the little card trading game illustrated above is the romanian #1 class distinguisher.
mircea_popescu: classic education in russian puts one at no disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: which is why it used to be mandatory for learned gentlemen.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all structure of language at the outset of possibility is in there. once you learn it it's just "fill the colors" for any other.
mircea_popescu: (these three males) + (belonging to that guy) = ai aceluia ; (this single female) + (belonging to that group of females) = a acelora.
mircea_popescu: so you have the seemingly confounding a/al/ai/ale + acesta/acela aceasta/aceea acestia/aceia acestea/acelea. for a grand total of omfg it's romanian - the gathering!
mircea_popescu: like in romanian you can ask "ale cui is pizdele astea ?" (whose are these cunts ?) and the anser come "ale aceluia" (that guy's) or ale aceleia (that gal's) etc.
mircea_popescu: most languages also have a posessive, which in english is conflated in his/hers/theirs.
mircea_popescu: (demonstrative is what got boiled down into this/that/these/those)
mircea_popescu: but just because english makes a mess of vocative case / demonstrative pronoun / possesives etc doesn't mean much.
mircea_popescu: you should see fucking romanian or russian if german is myriad