While a millennial vapes on his e-cig he resentfully gives me the solution. Dude, P = NP makes no sense so it's P ≠ NP. QED.
A nice lady, in her late sixties, shows up at my door. She handles me a two page brochure and her equally nice colleague shows me her visit card, QR code 'n' all. I've just remembered that last month I happened to buzz them in on my way out when I see a big title on this thing and it reads "Would You Like to Know the Truth?". I barely keep to myself the answer and I manage to smile a bit. A few nods later I wish the nice ladies my agnostic good day. I am now holding an out of this realm, genuine and objective truth. Behold on the last page at the bottom! It's copyrighted in USA and printed in Germany.
"Ignorance is bliss" and that's not because a fictional character from last century said it in a movie. That story was built on such a powerful and almost funny metaphor about the blue versus the red. A fictional character would always choose the red pill whereas you as a real world character, actually living his or her own story and actually being able to choose, what would you do?
"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Maybe you remember some weirdo who came up to you one day with something like this. "I thought that normal means not to see images and hear sounds from your mind. Are you saying that actually everybody experience that? What do you mean when you say you hear yourself speaking in your mind? Someone chased you in your dream and it was just like it actually happened? How could you see the turquoise water and hear the waves on your imaginary beach? It should be pitch black and silence behind your eyelids. You're crazy!". Now try to put yourself in his place and just think how your life would be without constant internal distractions and all your memories being instantly there and not as movies in front of your mind's eye constantly fading over time. I guess that's enough foreshadowing about my aphantasia. So happy to represent that special kind of "one percent".
"The quality of technology is inversely proportional with the quality of its end users".
All Romance languages are spelled correctly with some specific diacritical signs. I always wondered why this is so uncommon when typing in Romanian. I'm quite sure that preserving the Latin heritage doesn't mean to keep correcting the spellchecker. When all your text inputs are UTF and the spelling AI has more training than you will ever have then why ignore a few diacritics? Writing poorly in any language only undermines what you have to say and it might never be forgotten online.
"Where did you come from?" she asks me.
"Well, I'm from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
"What? Where is that?" suddenly looking suspicious.
"It's beyond the meadows of joy and the valley of contentment."
"Oh yes, yes. Now I know the place." she replies confidently.
"Really! If you do then come by anytime."
"Thanks, I will. I'm gonna call you from the valley next year."
It all comes down to the way you perceive reality and the only way you can do that is far from perfect. Even more, you are unaware that when you get to be convinced of the veracity of a statement, it is a thought process that has this effect. Think of it as something similar to an ever changing inference engine looking up an ever expanding knowledge base. That is the only kind of truth we all get which is basically the result of an altered input never completely processed.
"So let me share a secret that you'll learn as you grow older.
What's true or not true is in the eye of the beholder.
So do you wanna prevent our own annihilation?
Then our only goal should be to control the flow of information."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/everyone-has-a-wealth-number-what-s-yours
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
All the clueless Teams™ out there infringing on the US patents please make sure you are ready for the latest and greatest, heavily patented version of Skype™ 20110153809.
Today is 06.06.2012 and the IPv6 is officially the new protocol of the Internet. Romania is leading the pack for adoption with 6.4% according to Google's stats http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption.