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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 ?!
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 i'm aware. i just thought it's marginally ridiculous to be that desperate to impress bitcoin forum/reddit.
mircea_popescu: dub yeah, i'd be speaking chinese and you lot wouldn't be on the internet.
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: it does strangely veer into how aids is all about faggots and evil black people in africa however.
mircea_popescu: no, seriously, it's perhaps the best discussion of us academia i've read. ever.
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: i can't do that, the neoreactionaries would hate me because i am helping the jewish-african plot to subvert white fecundity.
mircea_popescu: i don't know anyone there i'd want to partner with tho.
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: schooling would appear to be more akin cooking than dentistry.
mircea_popescu: jurov yeah, those two really look like they can't afford the dentist visit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform NEVER AGAIN YOU HEAR!!! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT~!!!!1
mircea_popescu: ahem. so basically all future bitcoin incvome of the us will be reported as allegedly confiscated from this guy ?
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: bitcointalk being replaced with markov chain generated noise might be an improvement.
mircea_popescu: write a script, make 500k accounts, age them and take over.
mircea_popescu: people really don't understand what dams are or how they work, do they