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mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel there are two threads here. one is "
thiel is dumb". this is not being entertained. the other is, "
thiel's uneducated". this is my position.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the idea wasn't that, but to educate
thiel so he's less of a schmuck.
gabriel_laddel: I'm not saying that I beneficiary agree with
Thiel's funding decisions, but I am pointing out that there are people attempting to fund basic science, and that there are two specific people I've cited who can be vetted for their contributions.
gabriel_laddel: Christopher Olah,
Thiel fellow. Does research on conv. neural networks.
mircea_popescu: that's how he fucking confuses
thiel and kelly. they're all digested, right ? same thing!
decimation: "Joyent raised venture capital for the first time in November 2009[42] from Intel and Dell.[43] Joyent's early institutional investors include El Dorado Ventures, Epic Ventures, Peter
Thiel (Seed Round),[44] Intel Capital (Series A, B Rounds),[45] Greycroft Partners (Series A, B Rounds),[46] Liberty Global (Series B Round). In January, 2012, Joyent secured a new round of funding totalling $85 million from Weather Investment II,
mircea_popescu: "[3] Peter
Thiel would point out that successful founders still get rich from controlling monopolies, just monopolies they create rather than ones they capture. And while this is largely true, it means a big change in the sort of person who wins."
undata: mircea_popescu: the writer is trying to cast himself as part of some team which
Thiel brings some kind of social progress honor to
mircea_popescu: undata wait, you disagree from experience about the gay fitting, or you're shocked and surprised that
thiel may actually take your peculiar payment ?
undata: shit, I was scrolled up. That was from the
Thiel article
assbot: Peter
Thiel is totally gay, people
mircea_popescu: incredible, that guy. he's been doing 10bux trades with noobs for what, 3-4 years ? all paypal. he must be married to
thiel or something.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> declaring social media users chattel and starting markets for their buying and selling << this is sorta SOP already... << I mean
Thiel was an early facebutt investor
assbot: Peter
Thiel: Bitcoin needs a payment system to work - YouTube
mircea_popescu: is this some sort of braindamged feminism run amok where they imagine that if they "microagress" the patriarchy by discussing
thiel as if he were some made-to-fuck-once-and-discard popstarlet something's gonna happen ?
mircea_popescu: who thinks anyone cares to hear about how
thiel's skin is ?!
mircea_popescu: "Name a science fiction movie in the last 25 years that shows technology in a positive light, says Peter
Thiel << anything made in asia ?
assbot: Peter
Thiel Wants to Make Hackers Into Heroes -- NYMag
moriarty: but
Thiel's supposition that people should not bother with formal education and instead open up a company under the auspices of his seed funding is rather self-serving in my opinion
moriarty: i admire and despise
Thiel all at once
decimation: asciilifeform: oh he's one of
Thiel's boys
assbot: Ask Peter
Thiel Anything « Isegoria
mircea_popescu: decimation the idea is for russian oil to be sold in the manner of oil owned by the us. it doesn't matter who gets paid, as long as the "pay" is in accounts run by
thiel, and it all follows kyc etc.
decimation: Re:
Thiel working with usg << I can't imagine anyone running a 'bank' or 'bank-like' service and not being a spy for usg, it's the law yo
mircea_popescu: im sure
thiel will give 100k prizes to whoever came up with the brilliant idea of a wait, no. they don't need it.
ThickAsThieves: "Whenever I see that
Thiel is giving away money, I get the goosebumps. How comes that he is always mentioned in connection with PayPal, but almost never in connection with Palantir, Prism, NSA and CIA?"
BingoBoingo: Aquent: You wouldn't happen to be
Thiel by any chance?
ThickAsThieves: i heard rumors
thiel sent a rep to scout Neo, i guess he dodged that one
mircea_popescu: anyway, once ethereum cracks open
thiel being interviewed for his complicity in propping the scam will become a prerequsite for any further discussions re collaboration of bitcoin authorities with us authorities.
mircea_popescu: "
Thiel stressed the need for his programme while expressing optimism about what this years class could achieve"
assbot: $100k Peter
Thiel Fellowship Awarded to Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin
mircea_popescu: Bloodhound had everything going for it. TechCrunch once hailed the tradeshow app as "genius" and Peter
Thiel lead a $3 million investment round in the "blowing up" company.
princessnell: Peter
Thiel getting behind campaign finance reform
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, the ansewr is very simple. he would not have gotten an investment or interest from peter
thiel. Or any VC. And nobody outside of 10,000 people would know the word "facebook".
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu Did you read the Peter
Thiel class notes from the Stanford startup course?