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In principle, no.

Only one of those two is correct though.

I fully support Simon. If Gen Z truly was like him, there would be hope for the world. Unfortunately he's one in a million.

Hmm let's say, they have an intent, and it's just that the execution of the idea ends up being underwhelming.

Also, cubism is a heavily intellectual form of expression. There is a specific intent to it, aesthetics were secondary. I am not a cubist fan precisely because of that - I think surrealism beats it for all intents and purposes. But you have to measure cubism for what it was.

Algorithm away, as much as you want. As long as you put a toggle on/off on it in the client, I'll be fine with it.

I was gonna say that the guy went in, and got a girlfriend.

I get all that and I agree -- I lean conservative as far as BTC "development" goes. I don't even think we need Lightning (unless it is as a means to enable anonymous transactions, as it seems to do with Cashu) because I don't think we need to add any "features" to what Bitcoin does very well -- store of value and unalterable timechain.

I do think though that there's a big difference between developing ON Bitcoin and just using BTC the asset.

I'm not saying we have to "re-engineer" BTC. I'm saying Michael Saylor didn't have a part in engineering it in the first place, and that he is not a bitcoin engineer.

What he is doing for MSTR is good for the company and indirectly for BTC. But it doesn't constitute "engineering". Otherwise any CEO who decides to put XYZ asset on his books is an "engineer" too, so in the end nobody is one.

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Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.

Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.

My Aussie friend from college who used to work in a Koala Sanctuary or something like that confirmed all the above, and also insisted quite a bit that they stink like fuck.

That's quite a low bar to be considered "a bitcoin engineer".

That is meritorious to his company management skills, not really to "bitcoin engineering".

Crowding 75% of the population of the world into the top left corner, while keeping basically the whole bottom half empty seems quite questionable.

Is this different/better than the WoT score Coracle has?

I first read Dune (a Catalan translation) when I was 12, and more

than 30 years later I still go back to the original series every couple

of years. Again and again and again... and I keep finding things within

things within things every single time.

Dune is

on a league of its own. There are many other fantasy (I don't consider

it sci-fi) series that are master works, but the world-building and the

writing really set it apart.

If you want to try

more "conventional" fantasy, the rage these last couple of decades is

the "grimdark" subgenre, and within that, all you really need to do is

read Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy.

For

more conventional modern sci-fi, you can't go wrong with The Expanse by

James S A Corey, which is a pseudonymous for Ty Franck and Daniel

Abraham.

Who, by the way (Abraham) also has a fantasy series called The

Coin and the Dagger which was extremely enjoyable to me, and another one that I don't know any woman who hasn't fallen in love with for its incredible world building in a sort of pseudo-feudal Japan setting with magic and poetry: the Long Price Quartet (I enthusiastically recommend it regardless - woman, man or whatever).

In any case, really, have you read the "classics" such as The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), or the new classic A Song of Ice and Fire aka Game of Thrones (George RR Martin)? And in sci-fi Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C Clarke), the Foundation series (Asimov), any of Philip K Dick's (Blade Runner, etc)...