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mircea_popescu: lol that blondie vid is the tits. by her face you'd think she thinks she's singing inside a huge churning blender.
mircea_popescu: the systemic problems however... nobody wants to talk about those.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete well she actually does have a point. the shreds of data people are making a big deal about are likely statistical noise.
mircea_popescu: and so trying to translate it mostly yields word salad
mircea_popescu: most of the stuff they write is practically chinese (ie, doesn't follow romanian topic conventions (as in most latin languages you can order the words either plainly or meaningfully in romanian), they layer an abundance of cultured reference in between common metaphor (which is a process of significating that goes one step further than the idiom, roughly used to be known in english as conceit back before the us was a t
mircea_popescu: so it's mostly Cheloo (Cătălin Ștefan Ion), Ombladon (Bogdan Ionuț Păstacă) thyat write teh text thy play
mircea_popescu: don't say "it" to me like it means something bish!!! i'm eighteen lines deep
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu > dogecoin mmporg in the style of Eve: <<< well... "going to", anyway.
mircea_popescu: benkay: there are some gems. some. << well of course. but the guy didn't say "there's going to be A total knockout born somewhere in the US"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller did it involve vigorous copulative movements ?
mircea_popescu: benkay: <Vexual> not atc\ // i can't tell if this is the real Vexual or if his nick's been suborned by the most clever team to date << as opposed to what, before ?
mircea_popescu: " In the next 2 days 18 indie bands in Shoreditch will name themselves Nazi Weed Pope."
mircea_popescu: i doubt the guy's confused per se. looks more like, we're lulzy to him.
mircea_popescu: punkman that's a direct (ie, word-for-word, idiom-blind) translation of a highly tensed romanian text.
mircea_popescu: woman may enjoy to laugh, but proper analogy brings this innocent sense of wonder forth
mircea_popescu: (yes, it is my considered opinion that the one sine qua non condition for successful flirting is the device of analogy. anything else people insist upon, such as looking good, being funny, having money or w/e is piss)
mircea_popescu: watch out, you'rte gonna start picking up women and whatnot
mircea_popescu: it's a process much akin to inclusive franchise - more likely to yield better ballot results.
mircea_popescu: i certainly use a lot of sex analogies in work fields specifically because people [english speakers] so deliberately compartimentalise the two
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete there is something to the afieldness theory i think.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, you don't want either democracy or strong government, because neither democracy nor strong government are capable of acting differently from the weak spirited but rich parent of an estranged daughter.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the teenage slut born to wealth that skips a lot of school, and gets herself knocked up. not only is she getting some candy to "compensate" her for the abortion, but she also gets to blame her cocaine habit on the bad boy that "seduced" her.
mircea_popescu: and obviously, there's no prize for the people that ran safe stacks. there's a prize for those who didn't, who now get to a) bundle a lot of unrelated responmsibility and blame it on this known cause and b) ask for more money.
mircea_popescu: in general, once corruption becomes fashionable, holdouts last ageneration or less.
mircea_popescu: people doing "navy manuals" and whatever the fuck use decent software stacks for a limited time only.
mircea_popescu: when all they'd really need would be to forget all the wallets and whatnot and just you know, bet yes on this and no onthat
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny, all these wanna-bes and have-beens trying to get involved into bitcoin with dysfunctional, nonsensical business models
mircea_popescu: im wondering if they have a pedo story in the drawer about him too. i wasn't able to find one.
mircea_popescu: it's an evil empire, chiefly because it's made by stupid people to promote wrongness and error.
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you, it's your emotional investment in said media, and more generally the notion that the whole establishment is a positive thing "taken together" that irks you.
mircea_popescu: i mean think about it. so many sorts of wrong in so little space...
mircea_popescu: "Bitreserve is Minor’s way to address the problems and opportunities he sees with Bitcoin. He says most people will never be comfortable holding the volatile digital currency"
mircea_popescu: now he thinks himself a bitcoin expert, without having spent his year humbly reading here.
mircea_popescu: then went on a spending spree, which left him bankrupt last year.
mircea_popescu: well basically guy sold out for about half a bn (back when us dollars were still worth something)
mircea_popescu: read the guy's personal history sometime btw. it's quite instructive.
mircea_popescu: no, generally it's not. goebbels didn't go "please write me a bullshit anti-jew speech again"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves probably. turing test mostly verifies predictability.
mircea_popescu: someone actually believed that us born womenz were going to be teh prettiest, a century ago.
mircea_popescu: "They are beyond question the loveliest of all their sex...In the United States, of course, where natural selection has been going on, as elsewhere, and where, much more than elsewhere, that has been a great variety to choose from. The eventual American woman will be even more beautiful than the woman of to-day. Her claims to that distinction will result from a fine combination of the best points of all those many race
mircea_popescu: not like there's any women in these solid teams anyway
mircea_popescu: "Over time, as finance and commerce became more sophisticated, the concept of a unit of account emerge and gold generally became the default unit. Much has been written regarding why gold fell into this role, but for our purposes here it’s sufficient to note that it did." << seriously ?! what is this, insult the reader's intelligence club ?
mircea_popescu: "The origins of modern currencies started with gold and other precious metals." modern has an actual meaning. modern currencies start with the paper receipts used in england and then spread all over. premodern money starts with bronze and shells.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier you know if you made a point of cutting out tired cliches such as "By now everyone has heard of" your writing'd benefit immensely.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell rithm hey you got old -assets logs ? dump em on mthreat
mircea_popescu: Aug 10 08:04:15 *patrickharnett (cb4f5ec0@gateway/web/freenode/ip.203.79.94.192) has joined #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pigeons hey you got old -assets logs ? 2012 to 2013 ?