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mircea_popescu: (for the rap fans among us : this is some friend of p. diddy's)
mircea_popescu: Gilliams lives an extravagant lifestyle, much of which is depicted in videos filmed by videographers he hired to follow him around. The videos appear on “TLG TV,” which purports to be some sort of reality TV show starring him. A host of such videos still remain on YouTube, although some were deleted from Vimeo. One such video apparently depicted Gillaims “posing with stacks of money on his lap.”
mircea_popescu: " He also “generated a document, which he supplied to a representative of the investors, in which he purported to show a series of $5 million trades, as well as over $100,000 in purported profits on trades during September and October 2010, [but] this document was false.” Anyone can generate a professional looking document on their computer."
mircea_popescu: screen shot is not a confirmation. And nobody investing foundation funds should think it is."
mircea_popescu: "Gilliams received $4 million from Morfopoulous and $1 million from another investor for investment in the STRIPS program. As evidence that the funds were so invested, Gilliams created “a screenshot from Bloomberg Finance showing $1 million worth of U.S. Treasury STRIPS, which Gilliams represented was proof that he had purchased Treasury STRIPS.” A screenshot? He must have been in the virtual office that day. A
mircea_popescu: and by that penis i have represented a proper equality.
mircea_popescu: but im the elitist asshole to end all elitist assholes.
mircea_popescu: Ghaleon as you approach mastery you'll notice the leet asshole is an epic bridge builder type.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla stop fuding and slandering bitcointalk CEOs.
mircea_popescu: artifexd if you're limiting yourself to successes you can measure you're more likely to become obese than get laid.
mircea_popescu: because.... wait for it... c++ IS NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH :D
mircea_popescu: otherwise you'd just carry a soldering iron everywhere.
mircea_popescu: that's trhe very point of having a language : abstracting the audience.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to "lisp is crap, they only run it on shit"
mircea_popescu: "javascript is really cool, it works on every shitty laptop out there"
mircea_popescu: i never heard of a programmer that judged the languages on the basis of the machines involved.
mircea_popescu: possibly because they never bothered to learn english properly.
mircea_popescu: one can prolly make a living for years just out of that observation.
mircea_popescu: most experts are over 50 and don't hang out in the right places, so
mircea_popescu: ten-twenty years ago there was nothing really major that depended on them so.
mircea_popescu: guy's worried that all his shady work promoting various scams may land him in hot water.
mircea_popescu: that's almost enough to start a fake bitcoin mining farm
mircea_popescu: you can just pour them into the toilet, one ounce a day
mircea_popescu: you put it in the tumbler, stuff the tumbler with rags or packing peanuts or w/e to keep the cans flush to the side, then hook it to dry for a while.
mircea_popescu: you can probably reemusify them if you have an old washing machine
mircea_popescu: whoa you don't know the greatest mathematician that ever lived ?
mircea_popescu: neumann was the later, and in that context yes it can.
mircea_popescu: depends if you're discussing it as an engineer or as a computer scientist.
mircea_popescu: in computational terms, the algo doesn't crash, it just never finishes.
mircea_popescu: In response to the argument that Title III provides no explicit provision for disclosures under the present facts, the court noted that "[Title III] does not prohibit all that it does not permit".