azta6521

I attended a school for gifted children (e.g. most of your school has at least IQ 130), it was the best experience - not being bullied for being curious - it's such a simple thing and helped me a lot.

Even today, I am occasionally bullied for being engaged in a topic, and even as an adult I hate it - but I learned to live with.

I think there is a hard tendency towards trying to shrink whatever you are not able to understand - and correspondingly shrink your vis-a-vis, if they appear smarter than you.

Exactly - and FB itself knows that there is no wave of exits following a scandal. They learned that. They can have a conversation with one group and know the other group / the business is not really touched by any of this.

Did not even noticed it was down. I think the problem are the people - Zuck just making bank on the weak.

I wished facebook would have been down for a week and people would get a glimpse into a different world.

I'm always try to side with Occam, but let me speculate here: This may be a sign of resistance from within? A hacker group so good, they were hired by FB only to carry out a huge, clandestine hack that results in FB being down for hours, if not days?

True, but my last paper phone book did not have 1,500,000,000 entries.

If I had 500M to manage, I may just buy a lot of real estate in a specific place to drive up the prices in that area. I want prices to increase and with money I can create circumstances that would favor my preferred outcome.

Yes and no. I'm too amazed by a world which longs for so many software developers. I mean do they all know that all that software has to be maintained? That software is one of the most expensive human artifacts today and that software rots like hell?

I have a job with about 100% job security - but it would kill me if I were to do just that - it's too boring.

There is something sad in a world of abundant productivity that people have to care about job security and ageism. I enjoy programming and learning so I hope to continue to do that, but I save every penny, just in case it will be over soon.