I think part of it is cargo-culting and/or esthetics, and the seduction is a bit more subtle, their betting markets formalizes their belief:
That if people believe something (they agree with, they aren't consistent with it), that thing is more likely.
Some might even have an actually "occult" interpretation and see it as a form of actual divination. Yud certainly appears to me to have that tendency.
Lifted lyrics from youtube comments, with commentary:
I wanna be software
Upload my mind
Take all my data
What will you find?
A disturbing rejection of humanity.
And a disturbing invitation for data harvesting.
I wanna be software
Binary heart
Infinite options
State of the art
A cry for help, for less emotion ?
I wanna be software
I wanna be code
Digital dancing
Upload my soul
Nitpicking, but code is also mere text.
A call for sweet eternal digital un-death.
I wanna be software
The best design
Infinite princess
Computer mind
I don't know that I would trust mortal hands to the design of souls.
Isn't being a princess as you live enough?
I wanna be software
Live in the cloud
Fictional system
Tell me how
Perhaps forgetting that the cloud is very real, not so ethereal and/or without impact/reliance on the "real" world.
[...]
I wanna be, wanna be, software
What will you find? (x4)
You can write me, you can be soft(ware)
You can make me however you like (x4)
You can write me, you can design
You can make me however you like (x2)
Song disturbingly in a electro "love song" lyric style (I hope i'm wrong).
Is this a "Please make me into your robot girlfriend" song ?
M'enfin moi je vit au Japon, c'est gentil ça de vouloir m'empêcher de voir ma famille semi-régulièrement.
Quite the roller coaster of the author swinging wildly on both ends of the sneer line.
Une qui est similairement vulgaire, et qui marche plus souvent qu'on pourrait penser: « Oh le con ! »
N’importe nawak ?
NB: Supprimer l'accord par contre oui, avec l'auxiliaire avoir par example, surtout que dans 95% des cas la différence n'est pas ou peu audible à l'oral. Serait-il si choquant d'écrire:
Après l'anglais à des soucis que l'on a pas en français:
Les déterminants possessifs, sont marqués avec le genre de la personne plutôt que celui (grammatical) de l'objet: "His comment" ou "Her comment" = "Son commentaire" (Bon c'est vrai, même les transphobes utiliseraient "their" lorsque le genre est ambigu).
Là ou en France il y a une tendance à féminiser les noms de métiers ou occupation, il y a en anglais une tendance à les masculiniser/neutraliser. Example l'usage de "She is an actor" devient plus fréquent (voir ici).
Utiliser l'un ou l'autre est un compromis à faire sur comment exactement traiter les gens de façon équitable, faut-il effacer les différence, donner un même titre "plus prestigieux" à l'autre genre, ou reconnaître un place a part entière aux deux genres ? Surtout quand on sait qu'une grosse part du bousin que l'on a en français c'est en grande partie dû à un effort delibéré de masculinisation (explicitement anti-femme) au 17ème siècle.
C'est pas si évident que ça. Abolir le genre pourquoi pas, mais ça ne doit pas s'accompagner par une marginalisation des femmes.
The absolute most generous you can be is that he benefitted more from the dot-com bubble than anything, and selling out his zip2 company at a probably very overpriced $300M (in 1999 dollars). That still condemns him as a hype-train ponzi circus master who got lucky.
Also lol copium quote for the funding of zip2 from Elon himself:
"My Dad provided 10% of a ~$200k angel funding round much later, but by then risk was reduced & round would’ve happened anyway."
Both! He was verified before, but you have to pay for long-form posting. Which he really shouldn't given how much dumber, rambling and incoherent his long form posting reveals him to be.
It seems that nauru is mostly a high plateau: topographical map here If the sea rises by more than 20m it's certainly a scenario where 1M wouldn't do you much good either way.
EDIT: If I were a Nauru citizen I still wouldn't sell, certainly not for such a low-ball offer ^^.
EDIT2: Corrected 10K to 1M, not as awake as I thought. Maybe not such a low-ball offer, but it would still be a matter of principle to refuse such an offer, more on ethical/dignity grounds than financial ones, certainly I wouldn't expect such a decision to be unanimous.
I read this as:「These feeble minds cannot possibly measure my intelligence ! It's over 9000 !」
This «I am very smart» lad must've received a disappointing score, which I suspect explain a great deal of his rant, humblebrag and all.
That or it is indeed satire (although too much effort as gone into the author's blog, that if is satire it's more sad than funny).