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>A star trek replicator for software

That's a very interesting way to put it.


Most of the great music I've discovered is thanks to Spotify's "Play song radio" feature.


Granted I have very specific tastes in music and 98% of the time I listen to things I've already listened to hundreds of times... I sometimes try the song radio but it's not to discover a "banger".


And a poet.


Exploring new mushrooms is more likely to end in agonizing death than piercing the veil of reality.


no, statistucally not.

but yeah, a warning is warranted.


"So you're telling me there's a financial exchange for Magic The Gathering players? How do I put all my money in this?"

-Someone in 2010


As one of those people, the original meaning behind the name wasn't widely known. Plus, the dozen or so bitcoins I bought at <$1-10/coin were probably going to end up worthless, so preventing their loss wasn't a particularly big concern.


This was exactly the thought process too. If I could send 8 characters back in time to myself they’d be “BTC 100K”.


Dear Loughla,

Keep the Bitcoin. The pot you'll buy with all 10 of them is mostly seeds and stems.

From, Very upset future Loughla


A lot of people seem to still use the service that was first hosted at airbedandbreakfast.com despite an unwillingness to rent an airbed.


Don't joke: I once knew a kid who invested all his savings in a company because he liked computer games; that company was Nvidia!


Indeed, obscene wealth is never funny


That’s cool, but kids usually don’t have a lot of savings.


Passing KYC for a brokerage is also a challenge nowadays, especially if your parents have the paperwork.

When I was a kid I walked into a bank, opened an account with no ID and no parent permission, and that was that (I encouraged a friend to do it as well, their overbearing dad raged at the bank after he found out but even then it wasn't closed). Can't imagine that's even possible anymore.

Of course it wasn't that long ago there were bearer shares. You could just hand a kid a physical piece of paper, and that was that, they owned part of the company. Bearer shares were another thing eliminated after the FATF went on their sadistic attack on privacy and self custody of many forms of financial instruments, eliminating one of the easiest ways for kids to handle investments directly in their hands.


Nowadays you cannot even digitally transfer 15k EUR from your own bank account to your own brokerage without answering invasive questions, 15k EUR which had been taxed at least once already. Oligarchs, dictators, high figure politicians, and white collar criminals don't seem to have problems with money transfers though.


bet he won't return your phone call now !


We fell out of contact long before Nvidia blew up: hope he's doing OK!


You're absolutely right! That was a category 5. Thanks for pointing that out.


I always recommend the book Starting Forth [0].

It has the most charming illustrations I've ever seen in a text book.

[0] https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/


Thanks for the chuckle.


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