Am I the only one who noticed that the Tea Party was co-opted and neutralized by the Republican party? It wasn't without huuuuge expenditure of time, effort, and money that the Tea Party was redefined from "radical splinter group in opposition to the Republocrat system" to "militant wing of the Republican party".

I've got one. Let's start a political party founded on the premise that parties are terrible at policy and issues, and should focus on the *party* aspect.

"We are firm believers in personal politics. That is why we, as a party, have no platform. Vote for someone you fucking agree with, not someone who totes the party line."

Then, throw the fattest parties of any party. I'd call it the Purple Party.

Or, as Buckminster Fuller would say, it falls in. In towards the center of gravity. I'm gonna go take the stairs out to the second floor.

We simply need a new URI scheme. Let us link to a name that is not in the "central root" of the DNS.
dig:nameserver.example.com;http://mywebsite.lol

Use the normal DNS root to bootstrap names of nameservers.

Everything has to make decisions, and once the decision making becomes complicated enough, we draw an arbitrary line and call it consciousness?

Within the realms of observation, consciousness clearly supervenes upon QM, as everything we see and call conscious is made of matter! And QM principles of uncertainty are what excuse of from problems of determinism versus free will. But clearly, that which you study functions at a much larger level, such that QM is only important because chemistry supervenes on it.

Does that sound right?

Everyone loves to say "blah blah blah you aren't wise enough to make those judgments." What makes them think they are? The fact that they are in line with prevailing wisdom from a system that is going completely to shit? -_-
Anyways, +1 fictional mod point.

No, he is not talking about the fact that a few people buck the trend of failing at life after dropping out. He is talking about a different trend: that extreme successes tend to be dropouts. I think the folks with degrees who have ideas tend to give over the fruits of their success to the corporation that hired them out of school, rather than to their own organization they formed.

*VC scene

You continue to presume they are trying to satisfy VCs by creating fads. You also seem to think that somehow going to school gives you more time to learn. That is the opposite of the truth. You also imply that somehow the knowledge for those fields is not available outside of universities. To think that is to be ignorant of the existence of the internet.

Why do you think these people are going to be "in the VS scene"? If you read the descriptions, most of them are going to be in their private labs, enjoying total autonomy. Furthermore, most of them demonstrated the capacity to give themselves advanced educations from very young ages already.

*isn't a $100k VC investment

Are you kidding? Read more than the fucking summary, asshole. Essentially all of the people in this batch of 20 are gifted researchers doing R&D in the hard sciences. This is a $100k VC investment by any stretch, this is making it so people can get of the ground without having to support themselves with a day job. Nobody is starting hip websites here.

Pretty usually usually. Cool story bro. Also, glad you had an experience that differs from many.

But you made spelling errors! SO THERE!

It can also get you an irrational but cocksure way of thinking. And it can also give you a broad but shallow knowledge of many subjects that many people you will encounter will have deep knowledge of and be frustrated by your constant stepping on their toes with your 'educated stupid' commentary. Hooray for being well-rounded through terrible quality GEs!