asciilifeform: (long gone, as far as i can tell, from the net.)
asciilifeform: 'darkmathgirl' if you are tuned in, speak up !
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478598 << maaaaany years ago i chanced across the blog of a young (university student) math chick, who appeared to GENUINELY believe that she can become 'great' by cultivating the nervous ticks, compulsions, and miscellaneous dysfunctions paul erdos was infamous for !☝︎
asciilifeform: well he ain't here! is derping in some parliament instead.
asciilifeform: how is poor bastard to know that this airplane - flies.
asciilifeform: but the 'bitcoin == scam' isn't even wholly unreasonable for aboriginal whose entire experience of 'electronic money' has been chumpatronic
asciilifeform: and that steam train will move a man too quickly for him to breathe, etc.
asciilifeform: hey and idiot imagines that camera steals souls
asciilifeform: and i find it mind-boggling that thiel would choose to pay him this way, vs hiring him as 'consultant' or fuck, gardener, or whatnot, and just handing him bags of money
asciilifeform: small corp in usa almost always has a cc, for roughly same reason as humans do, it can dispute charges stemming from cc scamz, pay vendors which won't take american cheques, etc.
asciilifeform: and for it to be in the - at time of audit.
asciilifeform: incidentally -$8k of cc doesn't conclusively prove this scheme, it is common for us corp to pump purchases through a cc for bureaucratic reasons
asciilifeform: iirc even steve jobs was paid this way.
asciilifeform: sooo he's paid california-style. given corp cc and off he goes.
asciilifeform: the victi^H^H^H^H^Hcontractor is required to pay tax manually.
asciilifeform: incidentally in usa if someone is employed as 'contractor' there is no payroll tax reflected in corp statement.
asciilifeform: i mean, if whole statement is a fiction.
asciilifeform: conceivably he is paid under the table ?
asciilifeform: and iirc phoundation didn't even have a shill audit so this'd be classier, neh ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so why do you suppose they bothered ?
asciilifeform: 'Ad-blockers undermine the ability of publishers to continue to provide free or reduced-pricecontent on the Internet because they undercut publishers’ ability to finance enterprisejournalism, and they threaten the livelihood of journalists and other content creators. These free-riding technologies are a clear and present danger to an ecosystem that hascreated a vibrant, content-filled Internet for the American public.' << gold
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is not a mystery that y's thing is a kind of phoundation
asciilifeform: had links to something claiming to be detailed audit dumps but i can't be arsed.
asciilifeform: one, the other, both, neither, could be a fiction, i have nfi.
