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  • AND THERE ARE ENTIRE PROGRAMMING-LANGUAGES WHICH HAVE HARDCODED GITHUB AS THEIR ROOT SOURCE!!

    rotflmao…

    Exactly the same as Canada presuming that the US was somehow “inherently” on our side, forever

    Non-autonomy bites one in the ass!

    It isn’t IF, it’s WHEN.

    Nobody’ll learn in-time, then, it looks like…

    ( both Haskell & Julia seem to have hardcoded it into many packages, or into the language+libraries themselves, to great extent…

    Try setting-up a project in either language, with no github-username…

    they deemed that to be universally a problem…

    codependency isn’t synergy: it is suckerpunching-in-the-making. )

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  • Read Douglas Hofstadter’s book “Godel Escher Bach” & be stunned at what high-intelligence can do…

    Him discussing anything with me would be like me trying to have intelligent-discussion with a waterlogged & frozen tree-stump.

    after understanding that finally I understood why they like MENSA, to find others to discuss-at-their-level-with.

    ( after my 2nd brain-injury, I was measured to qualify for them, but after my 3rd brain-injury, I can’t imagine being quick-enough to qualify for them, & don’t like exclusive-clubs anyways, as they nearly-always turn into class-based-validity clubs.

    Brain-injury’s taught me things that high-IQ wouldn’t have, though, so that’s cool. )

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  • I asked gemini to find it…

    Apparently it was in 2 simultaneous interview-publications, by different sites…

    don’t know why I’ve got memory of it being video, instead of text, but here’s the answer I got:


    While Gabe Newell definitely made those blunt remarks, you are actually remembering a text-based print interview rather than a video clip.

    In late February 2022, during the media press tour for the launch of the Steam Deck, Gabe Newell did a series of one-on-one interviews where he addressed Valve’s ban on NFTs and why they stopped accepting Bitcoin back in 2017.

    The specific quote you are thinking of comes from two parallel interviews published on the same day:

    1. The Interview with PC Gamer

    When discussing the nightmare of accepting Bitcoin on Steam, Newell focused heavily on the sheer volume of bad actors:

    “The problem is that a lot of the actors who are in that space are not people you want interacting with your customers. We had problems when we started accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment option. 50 per cent of those transactions were fraudulent, which is a mind-boggling number. These were customers we didn’t want to have.”

    2. The Interview with Rock Paper Shotgun

    In a companion interview published simultaneously, he used almost the exact phrasing from your memory when talking about the NFT and blockchain crowd:

    “The people in the space, though, tend to be involved in a lot of criminal activity and a lot of sketchy behaviours… With the actors that are currently in this NFT space, they’re just not people you really are wanting to be doing business with.


    Why is there no video?

    Because these outlets sat down with Gabe in private press rooms to gather quotes for written feature articles, no official video or audio of these specific exchanges was broadcast.

    If you remember seeing or hearing it, you likely watched a video from a gaming news channel (like YongYea, Inside Gaming, or IGN) or a TikTok/YouTube Short where a narrator read Gabe’s text quotes out loud over gameplay footage or B-roll of Newell.

    He didn’t hold back, but he did it via the power of the written word!


    So, now you’ve got both explicit-quotes, AND 2 independent sources-for-that-interview.

    I hope that’s good-enough.

    I’m not digging into it any more.

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  • Hoomin, do the experiment & use a good probiotic when you next get diarhea, take it with something mild, for them to eat.

    It works in about 2h.

    Evidence is worth more than industry-concerted-opinion, in evidence based medicine.

    & keep deeming me to be machiavellian disinformation, all you want.

    “Why would there be hundreds of FMT clinical trials around the world for curing chronic diseases if it were so easy with probiotics? Why would 60%+ of Americans have a chronic disease if you could simply cure them with probiotics?”

    Because it’s profitable to not-treat-the-problem, & keep selling symptomatic-“treatment”.

    Read “Money Driven Medicine” or “Doctored” which both seem to be on this fundamental-concept, if you want…

    Doctored is written by a physician, who left the city, to escape the sociopathy of medicine as practiced there.

    I don’t expect you to have the intellectual-integrity to do the experiment given what you wrote.

    & that is fine.

    Let the world be ruled by concerted-assertion, NOT by independently-verifiable-evidence-through-experiment.

    Downvote me, though, because I’m contradicting your truth, & you want to make your world better, OK?

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  • A language’s script MUST be engineered to communicate ALL the required-dimensions of that language.

    There is no exception to that, that I can imagine.

    IF tonal, THEN tonality MUST be indicated…

    simple principle, right?

    in the cases of the Semitic languages, which leave-out vowels, their intent was to lock-out outsiders.

    NOT-communicating with others, was part of the intent.

    & … well, that’s their right, but it’s created problems…

    Not just the obious-ones:

    When you force a population more-completely into memorization-paradigm, you make thinking-paradigm less-default

    ( the 2 modes compete for brain-resources: culturally, pick 1, & let the other be secondary )

    So, the Semitic languages with the left-out defaults pushed memorization more heavily,

    & … that affects/alters/shapes history!

    ALL language-choices have consequences…

    ( I’d actually want the ideal-culture to have at-least 5 different languages, simultaneously, by default:

    • Engineering / English or German
    • social-relativism / Japanese
    • Indigenous-perspective/understanding, / probably Maya?
    • scripture, origins / Sanskrit ( language-of-origins, not language-of-effects/symptoms, multiple people fluent in it have agreed )
    • programming / Haskell ( get people to think correctly! )
    • emotion / Arabic
    • math

    something like that…

    Just switch languages/modes, to communicate within that-language’s domain.

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  • Archy means hierarchy.

    AnArchy means no-archy/nohierarchy.

    It is shameful that I didn’t clue-in that anarchist-sects each have their-own unquestionable-definition for “anarchy”.

    The ones who hold that anarchy means they have the right to butcher others, the ones who hold that anarchy means no-hierarchy-socialist-consensus-archy, the ones who mean libertarian-independence-and-no-coherent-action, etc.

    It’s sickening.

    YOU hold-to A definition of anarchy.

    YOU hold that nobody is allowed to have contradictory-definition of anarchy.

    YOU are boss of that-meaning, then…

    Good for you.

    The “anarchy means there is no boss, no bossed” sect ignores that the parent-child relationship is that.

    Good for them.

    I’m fed-up-with being gaslit by ideologues, both left & right.

    As vertebrates prove, hierarchy allows complex-organism to be more effective than non-hierarchical-organism ( sea-sponges have 2 types of cells: interior & surface, so they’re the least-complex multicellular organisms I know-of ).

    As complex-civilizations also prove, hierarchy is prerequisite to effectiveness.

    That doesn’t mean class-based-validity, it does mean that decomposition-of-problems/obstacles/work into smaller problems, done by smaller-teams, etc, is intrinsically required for civilization-effectveiness.

    Having more-experience be in charge of less-experience is anti-anarchy, isn’t it?

    Having greater-responsibility in charge of less-responsible-ones is anti-anarchy, isn’t it?

    Having the most-domain-competent people in charge of things is anti-anarchy, isn’t it?

    It’s making hierarchy arbitrary in the eyes of all who reject that domain-experience means anything, isn’t it?

    IF common-goals cannot be found, THEN congruent-action cannot be/result.

    IF common-values cannot be found, THEN harmonious-operations aren’t going to result.

    Etc.

    Nick Yee discovered that there is a category of people who enjoy breaking social-worth, because that is the buzz/pleasure they’re wired for.

    I expect “griefers” are in that category.

    & rigging society so that nobody would have any authority to stop such abuse, unless perhaps some event-consensus were to happen…

    but then you’ve got a “consensus-group” ruling over the griefer, arbitrarily, haven’t you?

    What happens when the majority are the abusers, & the minority the abused?

    I’ve read that in a traditional American Indian community-justice-circle, if the majority decide with the abuser…

    the only choice left is to leave the resrvation: there’s no appeal-system, once it’s decided: you’ve lost.

    < shrug >

    Whatever…

    Just downvote everything I say, anywhere: I’m not going to begin pretending that YOUR magical-definition of anarchy is identical with the other magical-definitions of anarchy that people put in my face…

    & therefore, I ought not be allowed, by ANY anarchy, to be affecting, or harming, your-ideology’s world.

    Make your-world happen.

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  • Give it a miss: good.

    I didn’t recommend the book, I recommended the ingredients-lists in it, for the specific metabolisms/doshas.

    ( I’m presuming this is about Frawley’s “Ayurvedic Healing”: here in Notifications, & I’m trying to get through 800+ of the things tonight, that context isn’t visible. )

    It isn’t even relevant to me what else it says in the book!

    Why should I care?

    those ingredients-lists are MAGIC level of help/good!

    That’s it: that’s all I care about.

    Life-saving help, making healing significantly more-possible, more-easy, & more-comprehensible.

    But nobody, anywhere, needs to accept truth from a subset-of-a-book, if they contempt the book-as-a-whole.

    That’s how humans decide validity.

    & that’s fine.

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  • Thanks, but the medical-gaslighting my life was subjected to, is done.

    Absolute-healing or death, not their gaslighting “help”.

    I find it nearly-impossible to translate complex thoughtshapes into linear-English, & there is no language for expressing thoughshapes themselves.

    Also, having survived literal brain-decimation ( 1970’s-1980’s, epigenetic-disorder ) force-fighting my remaining-brain to work is also exhausting.

    I’d rather evolve & die-alone than compromise my life the way your desired “help” of me, would molest my life again.

    You probably don’t have the decades of experience with being as-forced-as-possible to just drug myself into being an acceptable psychiatric-zombie,

    instead of forcing my brain to improve.

    I spent literally years much-of-the-time-catatonic with brain-injury, & they wanted me warehoused & on-drugs for the rest of my life.

    Fuck that shit.

    Feel free to terminate my life, if my life, itself, its-own-way, offends you, though…

    Not that I expect you, whom I’m replying-to, would,

    but all the people who find “me”/my-life unacceptable/intolerable …

    honest breaking my life, instead of trying to enforce drugged “living”, being animate-but-not-ALIVE…

    …would be more authentic, more honest.

    & if anybody ever does smash my life to smithereens, no matter what reason they had for doing it, I don’t want them prosecuted for ANYthing.

    Because it’d be honest.

    & honesty is something that this-world has nearly-none of.

    Doctors doing all they can to enforce drugged-zombie condition on a life because brain-healing “isn’t real: belief in brain-healing is itself mental-illness!”

    Go read Dr. Norman Doidge’s books, & see that brain-healing’s real.

    Better to die clean, than to “live”, drugged, for the “mental illness” of having a literally-decimated brain.

    Brain-injury is brain-injury, not “illness-of-mind”.


    So, while you mean well,

    I’d rather you axe-murder my-life, than drug me the way they drugged me, because honest condition is better, for me.

    Cheers.

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  • Wrong, in a way…

    Humankind can survive, but not with current-humankind’s unconscious-mind/instinct.

    Enforcing the transformation of an individual’s unconscious-mind takes identity-demolishing force,

    & doing it for an entire-species takes exponentially-more,

    but it IS possible, & the resultant-population cannot just do more geopolitical-dogshit, because their instinct is distinctly-different.

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  • Sorry, I’m not too helpful here:

    I’d paid-for 100x oversampling testing, & discovered a few interesting things,

    but not much I cared about…

    There’s a vitamin-D affecting gene, that makes one only need a small amount of the stuff, because somehow one’s body over-conserves it.

    I’d never known about any such condition…

    So, for me, a plain multivitamin will always be sufficient, for vitamin-D.


    The service I went-with wasn’t recommended by others who knew the companies better than I did.

    & I don’t remember the one they did recommend.

    Not the 23andMe shit, but the next level up…

    Maybe ask several LLM’s to find some, & compare/contrast their results, in order to get current view?

    Sorry I couldn’t help better…

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