Soyweiser

Yes, people. I wouldn't be surprised if Sam calls being lazy dogfooding.

From that blog post:

You can see the future first in San Francisco.

"And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

https://archive.is/QEqlU

The Network State is described by Srinivasan as “a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.”

This reminds me of those libertarians(*) who keep trying to build a community in the no mans land somewhere in the Balkans on a fucking floodplain of all things. I heard they need saving/rebuilding every now and then. (I assume with the recent floods they are not doing well). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland. And yes, they have a cryptocurrency why did you ask?

pictures of the hotel.

This reminds me of something else. I'm going to have to download something and check something out. (E: I checked, it reminded me of the hotel in the game Dead Island, but the game had a bigger hotel, a better pool, and less annoying visitors, so I was wrong on that one (I did pick up an achievement)).

*: they might be a secret third thing

Right, and then she gets less time than people who shoplifted a few times.

Yes, I meant this post more as 'doesn't a16z get he is being scammed here?'

Anyway this reminds me a bit of 2005 when there was an Asterix and Obelix comic where there was an invasion of space aliens, one of who was called the Nagma. Which went over a bit badly as it read as a weird freakout about how popular manga comix suddenly were. (So good job VCs you are not only behind the times, but 20 years behind the French! (I mean this as a light ribbing, I love the French/Belgian comics))

eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

Sure in digital monopoly money, but how much was that in real money put into the system?

very dim view

the prison time kind or execution kind?

Ah seems execution is no longer mandatory (jesus christ ...)

Ah yes the advertisement which causes T&S people (who have seen some things) to go on long rants on why you should never put pictures of your kids online publically.

The question (which doesn't matter) now is, does he really understand crypto? Or did he get at the right conclusion because he thinks that everybody else, like him, is just scamming all the time?

Kudos to Robin Guo and Jonathan Lai for managing to trick a16z to pay them for writing and researching this kind of shit. Turn your hobby into your work and you will etc.

nani?