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Nobody was suggesting we round up all the immigrants, criminalize homosexuality, segregate people by race, and deny women rights over their own bodies in the 1960s and 70s.

Old people were. There was entire movement around it.

Those people weren't the old ones at the time.

A <- ox

B <- house

C <- some kind of weapon we don't even have a name anymore

D <- fish

And so on. This set has been running around for half of the world for thousands of years and yet nobody thinks it's a problem.

Does it click?

Well, that's how you do it!

And if two widgets need to create the same effect, you just copy the 5000 lines around. That's why copy-and-paste was invented.

(It really shouldn't be necessary... but in case somebody still needs it, here's the \s)

imagine if people who came of age in the 1950s were to just live forever ruling over the rest of us and imposing their standards and beliefs generation after generation

I really recommend you look at history because most of those people did not have the values you associate with them back then in the 1960s and 1970s.

The problem with the gerontocracy is not really the inter-generational differences.

Yes. Those are the ones that made web ads revolutionary and replaced all of the ad industry. Those are the ones that gave all the clear results.

And targeted ads have been highly related to fraud since the beginning.

How long until you have literally forgotten the person you have been before.

Hum... Probably some 5 to 10 years. Maybe less.

All those philosophical questions about personhood permanence (like the transporter one too) are a joke when compared to how impermanent people actually are.

I imagine there's something about Clinton on the Epstein emails, like everybody expects. But I'm also out of the loop.

Well, by "reversed" I meant that the cable has pins, and the computer has slots, what is the inverse of serial. Not that it's upside down.

You can't plug a serial cable in it and make it work, no matter how much force you apply. You can probably do the opposite, and plug a VGA cable on the serial port with the exact right amount of force, though.

Once people start to openly justify the bubble by the rationality of the greater fool theory, they tend to pop very quickly.

This time things are different in that there is an actual caste of people with infinite money that can only pop one bubble if they inflate another one (or if the government stops giving them money, but I wouldn't bet on that). And there doesn't seem to exist anything big enough to take all that money. So it's hard to imagine the bubble popping mechanics working here.

Ouch, I just assumed it was the serial port and didn't even look how it's reversed. There must be all kinds of fun things you can do by hand-writing VGA data.

I hereby propose we make a workforce to rename all the stuff named after Euler.

It's just horrible. What's the difference between Euler's relation and Euler's ratio? What about Euler's rule and Euler's method? Do all of those only name a single thing? Who knows? Why does Google just replace half of them by their preferred Euler named stuff? Who knows?