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mircea_popescu: apparently one of them being a very improbable occurence they lucked out on. once.
mircea_popescu: they figured it's easy to do, and so didn't pay enough attention to the samples
mircea_popescu: anyway, asciilifeform, the saddest story to date is of this corp that MANAGED it. once.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, they can't actually sprout shitake.
mircea_popescu: sort of like a 3d printer + desktop combo, but made out of cunt tissue and capable of pissing apples.
mircea_popescu: in the sense of, this programmable device capable of controlled gmoization.
mircea_popescu: that's probably the product of the future, by the way : the organic computer.
mircea_popescu: so you get five of the six... and that's all you're going to get.
mircea_popescu: it's basically a game of "twelve lines" or "six lines" or w/e
mircea_popescu: except people have found a way to get investors to pay for it
mircea_popescu: people will make ethanol out of corn or buy it to rot in govt "reserves" before feeding any starving idiots
mircea_popescu: benkay i doubt there's much relation. famine is well resilient to dropping prices of grain
mircea_popescu: i will not trust an industrial process, such as gmo, on the grounds that in centuries of practice it NEVER failed to make the world dangerous for me.
mircea_popescu: benkay i will trust a natural process, such as viral transfer, on the grounds that in millenia of practice it failed to make the world dangerous for me.
mircea_popescu: it means to have undergone this process where random bits of dna were thrown at a large number of cells just like it, in the hopes that something maybe catches.
mircea_popescu: well so then that's the objection. has nothing to do with reproduction, it's just mashing things together
mircea_popescu: 's even got sideways print to fill all available surfaces with rant
mircea_popescu: monkey` i can't tell you cause you'll probably be mean to it.
mircea_popescu: ahaha, wait, the "fuck asics, i'll make a heat oven PMG" ?
mircea_popescu: what were you originally ? the guy with the cars/living standards/whatnot
mircea_popescu: Jun 22 23:49:41 <ThickAsThieves>[16:47] * bitcoin935 (3246306d@gateway/web/freenode/ip.50.70.48.109) Quit (Quit: <ThickAsThieves> sometimes i watch "the three stooges" to take notes.)
mircea_popescu: somehow we must get this perfect middle where if you don't understand you ask but if you think you know better you stfu or get caned.
mircea_popescu: it rests atop an artificial island created out of employee icecream tubs.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 the building is made from the caps of pens they use in filing their taxes
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: jurov lol they got one crampy conference room and some office space, give teh people a break.
mircea_popescu: maybe they already have it for something else and are just freeriding this on that.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the horrible obamacare website fail which probably everyone heard of, check out say this :
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: financial management is contingency management after all.
mircea_popescu: just make sure people know about the definitions so you have what to fall back on in case.
mircea_popescu: well, the fact remains most people that managed to ruin their reputation to date did so by agreeing to front for some third party new to btc that then went tits up.
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: you actually signing off on them, if they fail to deliver whatever people get to pursue you ?
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: <jurov> my slovenly slanderous somalian <<< ahaha best in class.
mircea_popescu: and tux has a license from a kappa he once met on a river bank.
mircea_popescu: until they show proof to these claims, btcjam is licensed on the pacific ocean floor.
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: so okay, burned through the funding, moved over to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: who apparently had some startup in atlanta called seegee
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: i remember reading it yest or w/e. coupla pages of the usual fare.
mircea_popescu: so obliquely, "yeah, you'll never get rid of the theory X thing is manufactured"
mircea_popescu: well the theory is that elvis isn't really dead, just hiding, and then hoffa (teamsters union) was dissapeared mysteriously
mircea_popescu: you can't be too young to have missed those references ?!