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It is the perfect word, is it not?

In a literal sense the Valley is very real. It exists. We cannot deny this.

On the other hand, the image of a godly unparalleled innovative land full of tech-genius-gods who "create amazing technology" that benefits society is the actual fugaziness of it all (barring a few particular inventors and organizations, but I am not the all-decider who gets to choose which)

Vitamin D can be obtained naturally, how it was intended.

1 hour in the mid-day sun (shorts + t-shirt) will yield you 10,000 IU in most cases, depending on location. Ideally, go shirtless. Bright sunlight hitting the retina has clinical studies backing its effectiveness in regulating hormones and potentially improving mental illness.

PS: Northern Hemisphere - Need to supplement during winter.

You and I have different ideas of innovation. You are likely thinking in a capitalistic sense of a view (disclaimer before I get thrashed on: I am not thinking capitalistically) perhaps you can name me a few particular up and coming companies YOU think are doing imperative, highly-important and highly-beneficial things for us humans? Companies that, 10 years from now, will be so imperative to our survival and well-being that they will fit directly into the Maslow Heirarchy of Needs?

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I scroll through Tech Crunch regularly. My honest observation: 95% of tech-startups are, as I said earlier, F-U-G-A-Z-I-S. Companies that fuel narcissism. Companies that are spin-offs of companies that fuel narcissism. Companies that perform services for other FUGAZI companies. Ad companies. Companies that provide streaming, so millions of Americans can watch Kim Kardashian on their Mac. I don't want to be a philosophical hippy, I am not one of those, but nobody here can deny that all of this is a pathetic coping mechanism.

Why are we coping? We are coping because we are a too primitive and unevolved monkey species to take anything to the next parallel. Even something such as space exploration is science-fiction, meeting a different species of life? Science fiction. Some sort of child pipe-dream we've learned from Hollywood (another FUGAZI)

How about something to help us find a slight meaning to existence. Isn't this the root-goal, at it's core? I look out with clear focus on the surroundings, but I do not understand. Then I go back to FUGAZI-land. It's imperative I figure out myself, but society is an obstacle (despite it's perks)

To sum it up: 95% of Silicon Valley is a primitive coping mechanism.

Silicon Valley is in NEED of a crash.

It is touted as a hub of "innovation" but I do not see it. There are exceptions that exist, scientific and medical companies perhaps, but the majority of tech-startups are not that at all, they are a fucking FUGAZI. They are speculative companies that are all about hype and getting an "exit" someday. Steve Jobs (as an example) is regarded as a "deity", a god of Silicon Valley. Because of wealth? Because the iPhone / iPod / iWhatever had a simple design? Step outside, the iPhone is used as a vessel for narcissism. Facebook and Instagram, two billion dollar companies in the valley, those two are the TEXTBOOK narcissism vessels of HUMAN HISTORY. These tech-startups are an absolute pathetic coping mechanism for humanity, they are not innovative or special.

Isolated, but not as isolated as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

Forget being unaware of WWII. Try being unaware of what a car or phone or airplane or office building is, let alone the idea of a "world war".

Look how primitive they behave.

https://imgur.com/gallery/tWY1o

Imagine taking one of these tribesman on a tour through Times Square NYC.

The amount of dilemmas surrounding Rio 2016 is staggering. From polluted rivers that leave rowers sick to muggings and now this: poorly designed swimming pools?

Brazilians are disappointing me.

Another aspect of social engineering that is seldom discussed: Women will have a higher success rate at any sort of information-extraction, in fact, I would say that it is a "social engineer" method in itself. The crying baby sound-effect? Simply icing on the cake.

If a male with a naturally brooding voice contacted a service provider to extract a password, his chances of success are lower because he is less trustworthy by nature, which increases the odds of the operator on the other end raising suspicion.

If anybody needed an article or a news report to realize that an energy drink is far from "healthy" then I pity them.

Just take a quick glance at the ingredient list: Sugar. Caffeine. High-fructose corn syrup.

This is the case with most off the shelf beverages and processed foods. Remember: The majority of manufacturers do not care about your well-being or health. Toxic ingredients are so abundant, that eating "healthy" in the 21st century is a massive under-taking. Green tea might be a better and somewhat healthier substitute to any energy drink addicts that are reading this.

Here is one:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014299900...

If you want more:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=personality+genetics+pubmed

Scientists are still primitive in the understanding of the human brain, but as you can see, one factor in your behavior and personality (ie. motivation, persistence, ease-of-anger, compulsion, etc) is the complex relationship between neurotransmitters and their receptors (and millions of other factors of which we have no clue) These relationships are largely genetic, they are inherited to us.

I have something to add of my own: Every characteristic about us, every move or action that we make, has a relationship (or is a byproduct) of some sort of gene(s) working together. You can even call it FATE if you want.

Passion. Hard work. Two personality-traits largely influenced by genetics. Try again.

The only real "brain training" is reading, learning practical and technical skills, and perhaps living a healthy lifestyle.

Other than that, forget it. Brain power and being a quick-witted genius is all about GENETICS (like most things in this life)

This is an all too common occurrence with "nerds" such as yourself on Hacker News: You are perhaps intelligent and high IQ. You are perhaps a successful telemetry engineer, yet you are BLIND when it comes to even a BASIC understanding how everything operates socially.

Raw intelligence by itself, is scoffed at by the general population. Outside of your tight knit nerd-circle or a back office server room in Silicon Valley, nobody actually cares about your quirky radio-frequency system hobby. Not even your boss cares, he just wants you to bust your back to help turn a profit.

On a social level, athletes and high-school football jocks take higher precedence than you. Pop musicians take higher precedence than you. Actors take higher precedence than you. Your local handsome extroverted bartender who can't even operate a computer takes a higher precedence than you (especially in the eyes of ovulating women) That is what human-worth means, in the 21st century.

Sorry guys. The show is over. Perhaps in the near future high-IQ nerds will finally engineer fully immersive virtual world(s), because that will be only world they will ever get any respect.

Are you guys living in the same world that I am?

Nerdy geek-type intellectuals are at the BOTTOM of the totem pole in terms of respect and human worth in the 21st century. They are ostracized, bullied in school, most are awkward virgins (intellect is the anti-thesis when it comes to being a "womanizer" or "stud") and it's only getting worse as society progresses.