"stop cheating!"
"I'm not cheating, information is asymmetric, git gud"😂
just finished, cant wait for season 2! it took awhile to come around to the characters shifts because for those familar with the characters it's probably quite jarring (that's supposed to be Luo Ji!?). I'm surprised how much they shoved into the episodes because the series also includes elements from the later books.
I thought the trisolarian game segments were so good, definitely watch it for those scenes!
if it really is about a grudge they'd be smart about it, arguably the nation-state that has taken the most from China throughout the years would be Russia, not any of the Western Powers 🤷 (I.e. Treaty of Aigun, Peking, etc)
do not overestimate lip service
that China (Qing dynasty) is long gone. The current regime in the mainland cant even its last 70 years straight and a terrible track record for long-term planning🤦 , how are they expected to settle a grudge from centuries before? Giving them too much credit
Chinese history is never-ending civil war（分久必合，合久必分, observing from across the Strait cant see how history wont repeat itself.
So far so good! It's been so long since I read it so it's all fresh now
The Chinese dialogue is done well imo, I read both versions 🤓
I think three body problem and the rest of series will always have a special place for me because it was part of my orange pill journey for being the only non-bitcoin thing I read that year. about to start the Netflix series!🥳
I thought 1984 was required reading in high school
150 Minerals, 150 gas, 43 seconds, requires cybernetics core 🤔 builds protoss air units and unlocks fleet beacon
which npubs are saying that? How can we be sure they aren't just you 🤔
Deflation anecdote:
My late grandfather bought a record player off an American GI leaving Taiwan in the 60s
The price? ~40,000 NTD which would have been enough for a plot of land in the heart of modern Taipei or a house+storefront at the time.
My late grandfather passed early so I don't have many recollections of him, all I have are stories. He seemed like a classy dude, smoked a pipe, played go, listened to opera -- enjoyed life. A well respected academic turned merchant, how could he have made the mistake to exchange money for technology which will only get cheaper over time?
Was it worth it to exchange money for a device that plays music instead of another plot of land? The elders bring up this question from time to time.
I've chewed on this a lot over the years. Hell yes 👀 "what is this noise?" "why is it so loud?" "what are they saying?" are the curiosities the money bought as my grandfather would blast opera records to wake up my aunts and uncles every Sunday. My aunts and uncles all have fond memories of the record player, even memories of how my grandpa was chastised for frivolous spending.
Was it worth it to get access to technology marginally sooner? The record player would have been infinitely cheaper just a short decade later. Whether or not by coincidence, both my uncles went on to work in tech, and one even contributed to many instruction sets used in audio decoding for CPUs. My tech background mostly comes from my uncles who let me play around with engineering samples to build computers, and got me on the Internet very early. Perhaps if it wasn't for my grandpa deciding to bring home a record player instead of sitting on another plot of land, I wouldn't have had the proper knowledge, skillset, and curiosity to be pulled into Bitcoin. The butterfly effect of my grandpa's decision put me in the right place at the right time. Maybe that extra decade of opera listening made all the difference, fun to think about.
Tl Dr; trying to find what this record player looks like, all I have are descriptions from 70+ year old Taiwanese folks. I spent hours on Google, the image above was the closest but the record player portion still isn't right. It was some sort of shelf instead of a top lid 🤔 any antique stereo experts on nostr? Will zap ⚡ a note that can help with details to help find the correct one
https://x.com/thebtctherapist/status/1770954379983470715 my class of 2013 friend capitulated at the beginning of 2020 at $10k. Orange pillers assume everyone just hodls and it’s easy, but it’s the exception to the rule. Most ppl end up with zero btc and many regrets, regardless of when they entered. Only those with relentless conviction make it.
Nightmare fuel 😵
Lots of ways to lose keys too , it doesn't matter how long one has been at the School of Bitcoin: Do the homework 🤓 don't skip class