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Sun Mar 01 08:14:25 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: know what in particular?
Sun Mar 01 08:13:49 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> only from gabriel_laddel's summary thus far
Sun Mar 01 08:13:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel how do you know this, sight unseen ?
Sun Mar 01 08:12:52 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> which would actually be useful
Sun Mar 01 08:12:47 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery
Sun Mar 01 08:11:09 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> but I don't know anything
Sun Mar 01 08:10:55 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> it seems to me the model is to find smart, angry people, fund them and then when things go to shit, stand behind them and keep them out of trouble.
Sun Mar 01 08:10:30 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> hehe
Sun Mar 01 08:10:23 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: i didn't think the thiel thing could get -more- snoreworthy
Sun Mar 01 08:10:01 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> and check up on you
Sun Mar 01 08:09:57 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> they dole it out a month at a time
Sun Mar 01 08:09:47 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: wai wut
Sun Mar 01 08:09:37 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: they don't want them to e.g., make a napster
Sun Mar 01 08:09:04 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: play nicely ?
Sun Mar 01 08:08:57 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> fuck that
Sun Mar 01 08:08:53 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> they want them to play nicely with the world
Sun Mar 01 08:08:47 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> which is fucking stupid
Sun Mar 01 08:08:44 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> well, in truth the Thiel fellowship doesn't even give it all away at once
Sun Mar 01 08:08:17 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> 2 years to play with Mathematics sounds wonderfully useful to me.
Sun Mar 01 08:06:31 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> the neat people in the Thiel fellowship are the mathematics kids, who are sort of the odd ones out