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It also links to this pdf version, which has the pictures https://ethereum.foundation/ef-mandate.pdf

Wow, this is actually amazing. A lot of art in here.

wtf is that, cant be real

This reminds me of anyone who went from normal life with normal funds to extreme wealth at a young age, not surprising, this is just the nerd version of rappers / ball players / young actors etc going through their own rendition of this.

It’s a cult, or at least, the leadership is trying to turn it into one. Cults have done weirder stuff, up to and including actual suicide.

39 members of Heaven’s Gate drank phenobarbital and died, believing this would allow them to escape Earth on the Hale-Bopp comet.

900 members of the People’s Temple (Jim Jones) drank cyanide-laced koolaid (actually FlavorAid) and died. That’s where the phrase “drink the koolaid” came from.

It looks like a pretty decent layout for an RPG manual, but not for a serious document I'd expect to see at work.

I'd love to see more work documents like this, or that at least aren't boring.

That said, a lawyer really should've reviewed it and told them a contract isn't the place for jokes.

I kind of want my work documents to have a single shared style, so that it's easy to parse when I'm looking for something specific.

Maybe it's just because I'm in my 40s, but I want my job to be boring.

IMO, this means we should change what we should expect to see in work environments. I'd love to see bold vision and art become the norm.

I think it would be much less of a problem if there was an explicit, clear delineation between the legal text and the art. The HTML version is much worse in this regard as well: the license in question reads like part of the text of the document (though the meaning it has in that context is quite ambiguous).

I guess art is subjective and people are into different styles, but to me, this just looks juvenile.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Yeah, they missed their calling. Should have gone into ttrpg design instead.

Is this document sincere or just AI generated and dressed up in something that people are meant to relate to...?

OK, but there's a lot of artwork in here: the opening-page image has lines like WE ARE ALL ONE IN LOVE -- is anyone taking this text too for a legal commitment?

Added: oh, the seppuku is in the HTML version without art, though you have to click to make it visible. Retracted.

milady on hackernews lmao

It definitely gives 'cult manifesto' vibes

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