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Barring any circumstances other than the ones you mentioned, I don't keep in touch. If they can't be bothered to download some form of IM or email then what's the point? If they really want to hear from you they'd make somewhat of an effort.

Social media became 'essential' because the barrier to communication dropped drastically, effectively widening your net for useless connections and sucking you into a vortex of crap.

After deleting FB, I could only remember a handful of people that mattered, another few reaching out of their own accord who I'd forgotten about.

Can't for the life of me remember beyond 30~ people from my list out of 900~. I realized I truly did not give a fuck about Kristoffer from Norway that I met zip lining in Mexico in the summer of 08.

Never needed it before, don't need it now. Pretty simple.

Anything but deleting all your social media is the wrong answer.

There we go. Thanks.

The onus is on you to disprove them, they made no irrational claims. If you have some problem with any of their concepts, say so.

Your attack on whether his comment is 'thoughtful' or not is weak.

Are these skills possible to acquire if you do not have a university background? I am self taught in everything, also learning math. I am make great money in frontend but would like to work with a more interesting skill set.

80k CAD = 64k USD. I can make 2-2.5x more for the same job, remotely. Around 140-160k USD.

Toronto is not a tech hub haha. We have a huge financial district and lots of "financial startups". The salaries are absolute bottom tier though. 50-60k USD at the high level.

The kids at the high school down the street from me have no monetary incentive either, yet they love playing, and have played since they were kids.

I agree with everything you said except "The general public shouldn't ..." That is a very dangerous method of thought.

I agree that it shouldn't be banned, but the risks is the thing everyone needs to hear first, they should be plastered everywhere.

I have no problem bringing bloodsport back if it's entirely voluntary and the public has an interest in it. What if two guys want to voluntarily duel it out to death? Why not build a stadium and let them?

Men are generally physically stronger than women.

I love me some complex async/await chains!

Your life must be utter torture viewing every human interaction through the lens of supposed 'gender equality'.

I have. I can't stand that a third party 'owns' my money and the fact that it's not based off anything. It could be gone tomorrow. You can say the same for BTC, but that's only if someone steals my coins. You also failed to address the use case in my OP.

Wrong. Bitcoin is a black swan. For example, me and my friends use it to pay each other for various thing because it's just so easy/painless. There is NOTHING out there that is as easy and painless and cheap (pre fucked up BTC fees, we're using LTC for now to transfer between one another).

How is the government going to stop me from using Bitcoin? Buy bitcoins locally, store them in your wallet, memorize your passphrase, and delete your wallet. Now what? How are you going to know I have coins? All you can surmise is I bought 'something' for $X which could have easily been chips I bought with cash.

Used to work for a popular bitcoin wallet. LOTS of Vene users. Even talked to some personally who used ETH/BTC to pay for goods.

Do you consider having a wallet as 'understanding bitcoin'? If not, this number hasn't changed that much...

We can do this all day. You don't need to understand anything other than downloading a wallet, storing your coins there, and being able to send them anywhere instantly.

Why is this being downvoted with explanation?

You got an email?

Probably because it's designed to feign organic interest in a niche market to get readers to hand over their money and thus little by little tactics like this erode faith in the web.

Realistically I'm 24, can I still make this career switch? Anybody have insight? No college education. Can I make it by 35? The ROI is much better than development.

These researchers will never organically reach 4chan because they are most likely well adjusted people. They have no need for such a community.

Facebook is the digital MKUltra.

illegal immigrants.

Learning React and ES6/ES7 at the same time? Invest in a gun ahead of time and keep it relatively close by.

You would have hated ancient Egypt.

I used to work in a room with over 300 Model M's. I think I have PTSD from it. Machine gun fire from 9am til 5pm.

The dystopia has been abstracted.

The present age is one of understanding, of reflection, devoid of passion, an age which flies into enthusiasm for a moment only to decline back into indolence.

Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that he kills himself with thinking -- one could barely call it suicide since it is thinking which takes his life. He does not kill himself with deliberation but rather kills himself because of deliberation.

One can't really prosecute this generation, for its art, its understanding, its virtuosity and good sense lies in reaching a judgment or a decision, not in taking action.

We are in a dystopia, it's just far more boring and disjointed than what we read about.

A life of constant hedonism isn't sustainable. Nothing wrong with sacrificing a few years to set yourself up for the next few decades.

I did that before as well. Then Facebook re-followed most of my list. I then manually unfollowed them again, and slowly every day posts pop up and people get re-followed. Fuck Facebook.