Ah, but he did. See [The Great Dictator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator) for example. For us to function we need people like Chaplin to show us (in a way or another) what's going on in the world.
The Great Dictator is one of the few films with obvious value beyond entertainment, because it's a vaccine against Triumph of the Will. Triumph of the Will is a skillfully made propaganda film, and if you have no awareness of how it works then it would be easy to leave with positive feelings about the Nazis, even if only subconsciously. But once you've seen The Great Dictator it becomes a joke. E.g. the low camera angles don't make Hitler look powerful, they just remind you of the extending chair scene. His exaggerated gestures no longer project confidence, and instead make you think of slapstick routines.
John Cleese's silly walk had the same effect on the goose-stepping scenes. It's art that makes people more rational, by transforming emotional manipulation tricks into comedy. It's beneficial even if you don't agree with all of the politics of it (e.g. Chaplin's call for open borders).
I'm new to blockchains so I'm sorry if this is stupid, maybe somebody can explain to me.
Why do everybody needs to keep everything? The chain will be much smaller with just the id and the hash of the block. The payloads could be kept only by the interested parties and could be validated when needed with the chain.
Because every node in the network must be able to verify all transactions all the way from the genesis block. In order to ensure that this is possible, everyone who keeps the history must keep the full history.
With the MimbleWimble design [1] [2], inputs may be cancelled against the outputs they spend, with no loss of security. Essentially, the entire blockchain history may be collapsed to a single mega transaction, with all coinbases as inputs and the UTXO set as outputs.
They test you if you can do the work, you test them if they can pay. A company should be more financially stable than you, so they should pay for the recruiting process.
If they pay, it's their work. But if they give you real work to do for free, you probably don't want to work for them, as it's a good chance they'll take advantage of you again at some point.
Get really good at what you do and you'll find good work on your area or remotely.
For certain monkeys, those "few monkeys" are family. Just like your family. You wouldn't want your family stabbed to advance a species you couldn't care less about.
If I up vote when I agree with a post, then I down vote when I disagree. We should have an "off topic" flag for off topic posts and hide the off topic posts, not unpopular ones.
I am a Chrome user, I totally agree that the browser should fill the password for me and not accept third party cookies. And yet I don't want the fields in my intranet app to be filled with garbage.
You found some similarities between some groups of people. This just shows that some beings like to get together, based sometimes on common interests. Also bananas share 50% of its DNA with humans. So?
What's more relevant is the differences. Funclubs' purpose is fun, I presume. Programming is serving humanity, I have no doubt. Political parties are in a way like football, a gentlemen game played by thieves. Companies are far from meaninglessness, they serve clear organizational and legal and taxes etc purposes.
Religions (edit: I'm familiar with) are built on deception to control people, they are not like fanclubs, programming, companies.
Really, it's more useful to think of religion as a sort of memetic infection. While religion certainly has been used and in some instances/places still is being used quite explicitly to control people, most believers, and that includes most of the clergy, do themselves sincerely believe what they profess, and there is no intent to deceive, they are simply not competent at distinguishing rational beliefs from irrational beliefs, and often caught in a set of higher-order beliefs that make it difficult for them to recognize where their thinking goes wrong.
I agree completely with you and I don't think it contradicts what I said, more it completes it.
It looks like a viral infection, yes, that's how it spreads: an evil payload wrapped in good ideas. It's a tool to control people even if it's not used everywhere all the time, even if sometimes it's used for good. And finally, yes, the believers have no intention to deceive; they are the ones deceived and since most of them are essentially good people they naturally want to spread the "truth" by telling others about it.
