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The Pied Piper Effect
- rrrene 12y agoWhat does this have to do with Pied Piper (or the "Silicon Valley" show)? Am I missing something in the article?
- campbellmorgan 12y agoI read the article for the same reason, but I assume he's referring to the original Pied Pipe of Hamlin (ie encouraging everybody to follow the lead)
- thejosh 12y agoIt's suppose to relate to the original childrens story about the pied piper. But I don't think the author wanted to kill the children with bitcoin.
- phpnode 12y ago> "This is like giving every MIT student a laptop thirty years ago" Pardon?
- mseebach 12y ago> "That didn’t happen, but I had to make some kind of comparison." ?
- phpnode 12y agoRight, it didn't happen. And if it had it would have been: 1. Totally different, as bitcoins are not portable general purpose computers. 2. Two orders of magnitude more expensive than $100 per student. So I'm wondering why on earth this person would draw such a comparison?
- nadaviv 12y agoI'm guessing that he's probably referring to the concept of giving them access to a very new technology at a very early stage.
- cabinguy 12y agoI guess the irony of the pied piper leading a large group of children to their deaths was lost on Mr. Wilson.
- CmonDev 12y agoThe rats did not survive as well...
- joshmlewis 12y agoI highly doubt he is oblivious to the show so I'm wondering if he truly didn't think of it in the moment (unlikely) or he purposefully link baited the title on (not that he would need to) but for anyone wondering: no, this isn't a blog post with the stark comparisons of how the TV show Silicon Valley effects us in reality.
- Terretta 12y ago> “wondering if he truly didn't think of it in the moment” He was distracted by the sesame seeds.
- oflordal 12y agoEspecially with the url avc.com which many (most?) people would relate to Advanced video codec (another name for H.264) you would have thought this was about compression.
- mikegreco 12y agoThere is no reference or comparison to the fable in the article. This is pure link bait. Absolutely deplorable.
- carlmcqueen 12y agoI stuck around to the end of the article wondering if he'd reference bitcoin scenes in the HBO show but it just kept to bitcoin. tricked.