I’d forgotten that his child died of measles.
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If you like the RCA tape cartrige — and who doesn’t? — then this video is for you. He gets deep into the subject. Very deep.
And then it ends with a couple of British muppets. I will let you find out why.
All with a pleasant northern accent.
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If you haven’t seen The Holocaust, I really recommend it.
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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/479/transcript
#479: Little War on the Prairie
History, Minnesota, collective memory, Civil War
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He had a talent for turning extremely technical psycholinguistics debates into exciting narratives. But, even within psycholinguistics, he had a strong tendency to present cherry-picked data and half-arguments as if they consisted the entirety of the evidence.
His early stuff was worth reading, but only if you made sure to read the opposing counterarguments as well.
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Those last two scrolls look like the arrow of time is going back and forth. But maybe Buddhist monks can do that.
More likely I’m just misinterpreting them.
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“Must be fifty ways to wrap your mummy.”
–Paul Simon
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“Don’t need to discuss much, but your heart will be weighed against the feather of truth.” 
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Millions lost because founder dies and takes his passwords with him.
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Something something smart contracts don’t require trust something something.
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Have they tried looking for a Post-it note on the bottom of the laptop?
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Look! He has a print of Pablo Picasso! Type in his Birthday! (Every hacker movie ever.)
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Wait a second, in the mirror - zoom in on that - and reverse it. I think I have it!
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“The laptop computer from which Gerry carried out the Companies’ business is encrypted, and I do not know the password or recovery key,” Robertson wrote. “Despite repeated and diligent searches, I have not been able to find them written down anywhere.”
So they can’t find any sticky note.
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Well it must be somewhere. They’ll just have to look again. It’s usually in the last place you look.
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Of course it is. Who would keep on looking after they found what they were looking for?
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Just to prove that wrong, I will occasionally continue to look for my keys after I have found them.
Of course, this all depends on if the guy actually died and not trying to get out of a fraudulent business.
Not that that would ever happen with something as solid and dependable as BITCOIN
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