mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah pictures usually do. i know the first time i went on a set and saw the actual tits i was hmm... didn't think they're actually that big.

mircea_popescu: dexX7 that looks like a model :p

mircea_popescu: jurov lol they got one crampy conference room and some office space, give teh people a break.

mircea_popescu: jurov oracle is pretty good if you run a large non it corp, because you can just call them to fix your shit. it's non trivial to keep on staff it people able to handle large-ish server farms.

mircea_popescu: it'd prolly be a good idea to clearly specify the relationship, preferably by a published contract. otherwise you'll have trouble managing expectations down the road.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know, it's a little strange you're doing their announcements for them. you're starting like a pr practice or what is it ?

mircea_popescu: and tux has a license from a kappa he once met on a river bank.

mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of the retarded vcs (defined as any vc who's not been talking to me, no matter what their mommy told them about how smart they are) realise that the new mo of the start-up scamscene is, get a "seed round", turn it to bitcoin, walk away with the wallet a year later.

mircea_popescu: Megan is the founder and CEO of a successful Internet security and networking company that provides service to a number of Fortune 1000 companies.

mircea_popescu: but hey, whatever. sucks being a govt agency, if you do shit like this you're too eager, if you don't you're dumb, there's no way out.

mircea_popescu: dexX7 lmao someone in the fbi seriously sat over a console coding up a way to send bitcoins in 324 batches ?

mircea_popescu: "Americans don't want to study hard things. That's for foreigners. Fluff courses like these ethnic-studies timewasters—that's what people want. Unless a university is 'anchored' by a big department teaching real subjects—a medical or engineering school—the drift is all that way."

mircea_popescu: http://www.vdare.com/articles/diversity-boot-camp-closed-at-the-university-of-delaware-but-big-brother-is-still-going-str < not a bad read.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here you go : "The worst case scenario I think would be having our European allies saying they will no longer share signals intelligence because of a concern that our SigInt is being derived from mechanisms that violate their privacy rules," said Ray Kimball, an army strategist with policy experience on European issues.

mircea_popescu: seems a broken analogy.

mircea_popescu: the un general assembly is going to be a riot.

mircea_popescu: i thought it also had a year option

mircea_popescu: An FBI official tells me that the bureau has located and seized a collection of 144,000 bitcoins, the largest seizure of that cryptocurrency ever, worth close to $28.5 million at current exchange rates. It believes that the stash belonged to Ross Ulbricht

mircea_popescu: the problem with free software is that unless there's an omnipotent dictator a la torvalds,

mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah. make it a 3d model.

mircea_popescu: write a script, make 500k accounts, age them and take over.

mircea_popescu: cheap mining isn't a human right.

mircea_popescu: if indeed he delivers something like 500th in two weeks am is going back to a decent 10-15% then

mircea_popescu: long long ago on a planet far far away, known only as "this spring"