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The Pied Piper Effect

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33 pointsarnauddri14 comments

I guess the irony of the pied piper leading a large group of children to their deaths was lost on Mr. Wilson.

The rats did not survive as well...

I 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.

> “wondering if he truly didn't think of it in the moment”

He was distracted by the sesame seeds.

Especially 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.

There is no reference or comparison to the fable in the article. This is pure link bait. Absolutely deplorable.

What does this have to do with Pied Piper (or the "Silicon Valley" show)? Am I missing something in the article?

I 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)

It'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.

> "This is like giving every MIT student a laptop thirty years ago"

Pardon?

> "That didn’t happen, but I had to make some kind of comparison."

Right, 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?

I'm guessing that he's probably referring to the concept of giving them access to a very new technology at a very early stage.

I 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.

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