And thats why we call them that. But worse, they blind us to incoming information and prevent us from finding the truth.

First, as preamble Ill make a bold statement. Flight 370 out of Malaysia is in the South China Sea exactly where it went off radar.

The "investigators" have a case of "I cant find my car keys" syndrome. And are spreading misinformation through the press to search the Indian Ocean.

When humans are confronted with anomalies, they quickly look back to "where did I leave my keys the last time?" They go back and forth each time using the same perceptive lens to find what is right in front of them but cant see it.

Its only the 5th or 6th time that they find out it was "exactly" in front of them.

Happens all the time, therefore, NOT an anomaly.

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Stop using this bastard of a language. Its an offront to software engineering and must simply die

Im not going to quote anything from this to dismiss it. Its simply wrong, a bit extreme, and out of context. You would have to be an idiot to buy the entire premise.

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I do contracts almost exclusively because I have no faith in the employment market as an employee given the current trends in hiring.

Also I dont feel that being an employee makes me more of a team player, In most places contractors are doing the real work and employees are sitting around chatting over the water cooler. Id rather get work done.

Im a generalist and in spite of the rather idiotic statements about that in the first comment, its really the only way to go, if you are not a generalist you are likely not employable regardless of your age. Any shop that has hordes of 20 year olds spitting out HTML/CSS is wasting their time.

The beauty of being a generalist is that once you have enough experience and a core set of tools, you can add new ones or not at your leisure. The pace of things is really not that fast, about 80% of all tools that get released are just junk that noone will remember in a couple years.

One benefit of being an older developer, is that in a decent shop people tend to notch down the bullshit factor, because they know you have heard it before.

Conning people into doing things that are stupid is reserved for the 20 somethings.

The web is a gargantuan piece of trash. Throw your HTML on the pile if you want. Take two and call me back in 10 years when you have realized what a fool's errand developing for the web is.

Once they have done this, and therefore are completely entitled, they take out their entitlement anxieties on everyone else who was smart enough to learn what they needed to and didnt give a shit about social conformity or status entitlement.

Their collective anger at themselves is what creates homelessness.

Although being curious and maybe even finding the real man is not without it's singular reward of knowing that, the consequences of that for the man himself whether he is Satoshi or not are significant...because of US.

If you believed in the value of a bitcoin, or the idea of a bitcoin, and you thought it was valuable, you would leave this person alone whether he invented it or not.

Bitcoin may change the world in some way, or at least make a dent in it. But chasing an old man around in the effort to make news-porn out of it is really sad and against the morals of civilized society.

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