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a111: Logged on 2017-05-07 18:52 gabriel_laddel_p: Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "
Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 00:06 BingoBoingo: In still coaster lollers: "
Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended
Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of
Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which
Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time
a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 00:06 BingoBoingo: In still coaster lollers: "
Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended
Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of
Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which
Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time
BingoBoingo: partners moved over to a program called "experts," which provides advice to Y Combinator entrepreneurs,
Thiel did not join."
BingoBoingo: In still coaster lollers: "
Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended
Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of
Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which
Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time
☟︎☟︎ mats speculates next five-year plan includes
thiel-ization of intel apparatus - booz allens and stratfors
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: actually, someone who works next to
thiel day in day out got demo'd masamune. didn't get it.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-03 02:15 asciilifeform: my least nonsensical hypothesis is that
thiel funded urbit (yes) to make a half-hearted play at 'embrace&extinguish'ing bitcoin
trinque: ah so g_l refueled on smart-guy virtue signaling, off now to dry clothes on line next to peter
thiel's agar pool?
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel_p> Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "
Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up. << Take some pictures and maybe I submit a quote to fix the yard?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-07 18:52 gabriel_laddel_p: Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "
Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up.
gabriel_laddel_p: IE associated with one of his startups, the "
thiel fellows" or something
gabriel_laddel_p: Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "
Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up.
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: aah, i get it. ycombinator is buying their way out of the sins of refusing to disavow
thiel by "funding" the aclu.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I have talentless
thiel fellows trying to lowball me at the moment, but expect that they'll pay up soon enough.
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/38D3N << derpy woman with no tech anything in SV has tiny deal collapse, she misrepresents it as "her refusing to deal with some guy who might have once had dinner with
thiel", bloomberg is happy to run the nonsense.
phf: asciilifeform: well, like mircea_popescu said above it's not about
thiel, it's about whether or not he gets to hang out with rando progre attention whores. of course it doesn't work that way and i don't know why he would want to, but i wouldn't be surprised if in his mind it does. my impression is that he's visibly trying to morph from stormfront "must read litrecha" section to a kind of "let's discuss human nature, surely we all agree"
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: 1.5mn is also what
thiel ~announced~ to primary campaign. if he's really backing trump he'll also donate multiples of that via superpac.
mircea_popescu: except hey, for as long as
thiel's connected, who's gonna rustle his clientelle.
mircea_popescu: atm looks a lot more like someone in tax shelters is using this to hide from a few mn worth of tax liability ; than
thiel or anyone else wanting to give yudks as much as a half smoked marlboro.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: wait what does his new thing have to do with
thiel?
mircea_popescu: the ensuing publicity made it worth ~100x what it was worth before, and made peter
thiel a vague internet celebrity.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-29 01:00 mircea_popescu: so this schmuck is an "entrepreneur", whatever, typical socialist state constructed leech, like they have in ro ru us etc. a peter
thiel (speaking of which, anyone actually recall the x.com thing ? which is how he became famous in the first place ?)
mircea_popescu: so this schmuck is an "entrepreneur", whatever, typical socialist state constructed leech, like they have in ro ru us etc. a peter
thiel (speaking of which, anyone actually recall the x.com thing ? which is how he became famous in the first place ?)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: seems very dubious any of those derps actually have any money, other than what they hope to get from the
thiel warchest/spoils.
pete_dushenski: "Billionaire investor and Palantir co-founder Peter
Thiel tells Fortune that he thinks that Palantir's data software can actually help end ubiquitous surveillance by showing agencies like the NSA exactly who's up to no good, so they can leave everybody else alone." << fuck
thiel with alf's telephone pole-sized stake. who is dumb enough to believe that this is how ~anything~ works ?
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2016 15:28:44; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because
thiel got money and no self respect.
mircea_popescu: i mean that quite profoundly -
thiel has seen the narrow horizon of the pen and contented himself that "this is everywhere".
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:39:45; asciilifeform: 'Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter
Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.' << lulzy
ascii_field: decimation: we more or less know it was
thiel decimation: ascii_field: and if b happened it almost certainly was at the foot of peter
thiel or one of his cronies
ascii_field: (the actual american zhirinovsky is not unambiguously one man, but could be peter
thiel, ron/rand paul, a number of other folks)
mircea_popescu: im waiting for her takin ga kidney out to replace it with
thiel's latest invention.
Pierre_Rochard: Peter
Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir, convenient for him to arrange a deal!
Pierre_Rochard: my favorite was “Data analytics provider Palantir Technologies Inc., which was valued at $15 billion last September, turned to an SPV arranged by Founders Fund, a San Francisco firm headed by billionaire investors Peter
Thiel, according to people familiar with the deal.”
mircea_popescu: why so shy you know ? what's wrong with "Transhumanism is
Thiel's stab at b-a. He thinks Omidyar's stab at qntra failed for reasons unrelated."
gabriel_laddel: well, in truth the
Thiel fellowship doesn't even give it all away at once
gabriel_laddel: the neat people in the
Thiel fellowship are the mathematics kids, who are sort of the odd ones out
mircea_popescu: is really the small part of the discussion.
thiel is smart, and it doesn't help him
gabriel_laddel: 10:37 - who is that with
Thiel, could it be the evil racist Charles Murray?