This is a bummer - headed to Berlin for the first time in a few weeks and hoped to visit. Any recommendations for similarly geek-oriented side trips in Berlin?
The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing
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#12This is a bummer - headed to Berlin for the first time in a few weeks and hoped to visit. Any recommendations for similarly geek-oriented side trips in Berlin?
The Computerspielemuseum is worth a visit. https://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
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#13https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchstabenmuseum
It opened in 2016.
This post is likely the most attention it has ever received.
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#14Probably the money gambled away on slop AI startups in a single week could sustain thousands of museums like this for decades
Money spent on startups isn't charity, you do it in the expectation of (in aggregate) profit -- so it's not rivalrous with charities. People who might support museums earn money on investments that they can then use for charities.
If you believe that you are better at picking winners (slop startups vs non-slop startups) than the rest of the investment world, then that's a valuable skill that you could use to earn a lot of money that you could then use to support museums if you choose.
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#15Probably the money gambled away on slop AI startups in a single week could sustain thousands of museums like this for decades
Money spent on startups isn't charity, you do it in the expectation of (in aggregate) profit -- so it's not rivalrous with charities. People who might support museums earn money on investments that they can then use for charities. If you believe that you are better at picking winners (slop startups vs non-slop startups) than the rest of the investment world, then that's a valuable skill that you could use to earn a l…
It's a deeply capitalist perspective to respond to a criticism of the excesses and inefficiency of wild, unfounded capital speculation with 'Well if you so smart, why ain't you rich?!?'
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#16This is a bummer - headed to Berlin for the first time in a few weeks and hoped to visit. Any recommendations for similarly geek-oriented side trips in Berlin?
The Computerspielemuseum is worth a visit. https://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
100%, you can play a lot of retro arcades for free after u paid the 5€ entry fee. 10/10 experience
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Money spent on startups isn't charity, you do it in the expectation of (in aggregate) profit -- so it's not rivalrous with charities. People who might support museums earn money on investments that they can then use for charities. If you believe that you are better at picking winners (slop startups vs non-slop startups) than the rest of the investment world, then that's a valuable skill that you could use to earn a l…
It's a deeply capitalist perspective to respond to a criticism of the excesses and inefficiency of wild, unfounded capital speculation with 'Well if you so smart, why ain't you rich?!?'
It's a deeply non-capitalist perspective to demand that everyone respond to dumb posts with sentiment instead of analysis.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a deeply capitalist perspective to respond to a criticism of the excesses and inefficiency of wild, unfounded capital speculation with 'Well if you so smart, why ain't you rich?!?'
It's a deeply non-capitalist perspective to demand that everyone respond to dumb posts with sentiment instead of analysis.
> a deeply non-capitalist perspective
This seems to have been said as if it is a bad thing. Is it, or did I misread what you meant?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a deeply non-capitalist perspective to demand that everyone respond to dumb posts with sentiment instead of analysis.
> a deeply non-capitalist perspective This seems to have been said as if it is a bad thing. Is it, or did I misread what you meant?
It turns out they were being triggered by sentiment to respond with more sentiment, but they think their sentiment is "analysis."
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#20In a similar vein there's the Neon Museum in Warsaw.