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That reminds me of an old joke:

Q: How does an engineer cure constipation?

A: He works it out with a pencil.

Of course in neither sense of the connotation of the punchline, can the engineer cure his constipation. No, he'd need to see a medical professional to do that.

I'm old enough to remember that the great promise of the internet in China was as a backdoor to free speech. That was until China contracted companies, many of them American, to help construct The Great Firewall. It was just this year that DuckDuckGo stopped giving results for "Tank Man" in the Free US because Bing didn't want to offend China.

Facebook is being used as platform for misinformation, both for political and vaccine related. Facebook was supposed to connect us together, instead it's driven us apart.

And now it's blockchain/crytpo/defi which will save us all.

So in 2021 the joke is:

Q: How does a crypto fanatic cure constipation?

A: He offers shitcoins and convinces other people to mine for them.




haha nice modern version! I originally heard the first version as a mathemetician instead of an engineer.




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