Youtube hearted comments of Gorilla Disco (@gorilladisco9108).

  1. It's amazing that Theo Jansen didn't have computer education. He invented the names for his device components himself. One Japanese reporter once pointed that a component was a NAND gate, but he said he named it LIAR SWITCH because it went the inverse of the input.
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  2. Another good example was the comparison of Igbo/Yoruba against Hausa/Fulani on the eve of British suppression of Atlantic slave trade. They really turned the table around. I think I read about them the first time in one of Sowell's books. For short, in the mid 1800s land that today known as Nigeria, the Igbo and Yoruba tribes were living in near stone age civilizations and they were constantly preyed by slaver hunters from Hausa and Fulani tribes who get their civilization boost from their neighboring Arabs. If you watched the movie "Amistad", at one scene there showed the process of capturing slaves before they were sold to Europeans. The slaves were either from Igbo or Yoruba and the slavers were either Hausa or Fulani. Enter British, who in their mission to suppress Atlantic slave trade received the mandate to occupy the land. But they weren't just occupy it, they also introduced English/western style of education. Igbo and Yoruba on their part thought this western education was their salvation from Hausa and Fulani oppression, on the other hand Hausa and Fulani considered it as symbol of British oppression. Within a few decades, Igbo and Yoruba had advance their civilization above and beyond that of Hausa and Fulani to the point where at the time when British granted Nigeria their independence in the 1960s, there were numerous college educated from Igbo and Yoruba and only one highschool educated among Hausa & Fulani. And of course you already hear about "Boko Haram"? Yes, it has its roots from that episode. And yes, its members are from Hausa and Fulani. So you know why. It is said that today Nigerians are the most successful among the immigrants in the US. Three guess which tribe they came from? Hint: not Hausa/Fulani.
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  3. We will have to wait until non-rechargeable battery appear in the market. Such thing can be distributed in local convenience store, or in Australia truck train case, at gas pumps stores. You just buy it the way you buy grocery.
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  4. The cause of any government enterprise failure is it has to politically viable in every step. If a government enterprise, e.g. NASA, wants to replace carbon fiber with stainless steel, there will be senators (whose state is "accidentally" the home to that damn carbon fiber factory) raising hell and slander the usage of stainless steel for spaceship. With that kind of burden, the failure (and waste) of government enterprise is guaranteed.
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