asciilifeform: 'What actually happens is wealthy people like Paul Graham fund startups because they think these things are valuable. Through venture funding, rich people legitimate startups. Thus, they confer value upon the startup. They then use their ridiculous money and connections to “advise” and “mentor” those they deemed worthy of capital so that they can use this capital to build a future people like Paul Graham expect to see.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: lulzy, and predictable
asciilifeform: 'Paul Graham is one of those plutocrats whose thirst to be recognized as a thoughtleader among his peers is obvious. For Paul Graham, Silicon Valley Ideology is the ideology America should run on, and ergo, being a puppet of Silicon Valley Ideology, Paul Graham thinks himself a political genius.'
asciilifeform: i generally go to ml when i look for 'what happened in xxx month trb-wise'
asciilifeform: these folks don't do much emailing outside of the grounds
asciilifeform: copypaste: mega-bureaucracies don't really give much of a fuck whether their public site stays up, they fall down routinely. and at this point are all 'cloudflared' anyway.
asciilifeform: copypaste: same thing as in africa. the poverty, of every kind, that leads to no other port being in any hurry to invite you in
asciilifeform for example has a passport, fat lot of good it does
asciilifeform: 'Is was Wednesday, March 26, 2014. It was a cold winter outside, but not inside an old building of the Princeton university campus. The room, full of people, was warm. I was standing in front of some of the brightest minds in Bitcoin: Andresen, Bonneau, Eyal, Maxwell, Miller, Gün Sirer, Szabo, Todd and Zooko, to name only a few. My talk was about “SPV Mining”...'☟︎
asciilifeform: 'we will graciously agree to lend you, at interest, a portion of your own money, which we confiscated.'
asciilifeform: coming soon to a nato bank near you!!11
asciilifeform: 'To paraphrase: “It may seem weird that we’re holding collateral on your account and offering you a loan, but that was not a mistake! You’re still eligible. Contact me if interested.”'
