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 standing on the shoulders of giants!  
 That's precarious.  😬

Better to exercise & make your shoulders as strong as theirs...and then build a stool or ladder to help you get shit done! 
 google it.

we’re for example standing on satoshi’s shoulders.. 
 There's nothing to google; it's literally false.  I'm actually standing on the ground, using satoshi's unique & timely ideas as I endeavor forward.

Honestly, standing on peoples shoulders sounds very close to a circus stunt, or worse, slavery. 
 you should google it. 
 Physicists have been wrong about pretty much everything so far; giant men that let people stand on their shoulders is one example 😏 
 what was Newton wrong about? 
 Gravity.  

Also, giant men.  It was a difderent era; I'm not convinved he was speaking in metaphor.  Dude was crazy. 
 Newton was a great mind and Lucasian professor.  Hawking, who was also Lucasian professor, titled his book "On the shoulders of giants".  The theory goes that he was trolling Robert Hooke when he wrote that phrase.  My view is that he was referring to some of the great thinkers of the past, such as Kepler, Bracho, Galileo.  But Newton as an alchemist was probably refering to John Dee, who founded Trinity College, Cambridge.  Dee was the greatest mathematician of his age, and wrote the Monas, which is still not deciphered.  But the best guess is that the glyph is to transform things from a lower nature to a higher nature.  That is cypherpunk af.  True cypherpunk.  Satoshi dematerialized this idea by turning inert hard drives into digital gold.  Newton got a few things wrong, such as light particles and relative motion.  He was also first Lord of the Mint, his job was to prevent double spend, which was punishable by death.  Satoshi follows in a long tradtion of what we call cypherpunks today, and what were called al-chemists, in the past. 
 that's a great post! I wanted so hard to zap it, but it's not possible, it seems your zap setting is not working. 
 Thanks!  Unfortunately I was using a mint, but he turned it off.  So I dont get zaps now.  But I'll fix my profile soon. 
 What we call physics today is basically materialism.  It's a useful tool for some things, but poor for others.