I'm white, from Switzerland.

The only time I experienced racism was taking a vacation in Spain, in a place where there are a lot of french tourists. They get a lot of hate, and me speaking french got me treated like one of them.

I'm a very laid back, cool guy, and I'm usually the last one to get angry. But being at a restaurant and being made fun of randomly by the waiter, and then wondering if someone spat in my food, and having this impression that everyone hated me for now reason...

It was a terrible feeling. But I knew the only reason they were like that was because of a misunderstanding. All I had to do was mentioning I was Swiss or speak Spanish and it would stop instantly.

Now if I had been french, and I had no way to defuse the situation, I can imagine how frustrating it would have been.

Then I can see how things being like that your whole life must feel, specially when its something that stands out as much as your skin color.

I've been extremely frustrated on rare occasions in my life, and I've done things I would never thought I would. Karma is a thing. If people give you shit without a good reason, you'll do the exact same, probably to someone else, just to balance things.

Landing on a page and having an auto-play HD video as a background, then clicking on the play icon just to have a the same video poping up (and lagging like hell... this is the point where I hope the have a great concept)

Then not being able to figure out what those guys sell...

Then finally figuring out they're selling website design. Damn the irony...

It's always April 1st somewhere!

Edit: I've once thought of a system which would allow virtually unlimited compression, the only drawback is that it would take an insane amount of time to execute.

Imagine a chess board, a 8x8 grid of alternating black and white tiles. Now you write an algorithm that performs permutations, 2 by 2, 4 by 4, etc, in a predefined order.

If you do enough permutations, at some point you're going to have all the white tiles on one side of the board, and the black ones on the other side.

You can now store your board as its size, 2 expressions representing the 2 halfs, and the number of permutations you need to reach the original state.

Looking forward to additional info on this joke/hoax!

I hate to break it to you, especially since I don't exactly understand the scheme you're describing, but "virtually unlimited compression" is impossible [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon's_source_coding_theorem

I hate to break it to you, but if super massive black holes exist, it is maybe possible. (Curious, if this is wrong or can be broken too)

Not if the center of a black hole contains a Einstien-Rosen bridge, then the information is transmitted elsewhere.

"I don't understand what you're saying, but you're wrong"

Yep. And I'd feel equally confident making a similar remark if someone presented me with a perpetual motion machine as well!

I worked in retail when I was younger. This would be excellent advice for a sales person working with uneducated customers.

I was the go-to guy, resulting in a lot of freedom when dealing with clients. It allowed me to do lot of social experimentation, especially when selling custom services (like fixing "My PC is slow").

Explaining the in-and-outs of different options (goal, short/long term consequences, risks, up/downsides...), then saying it would cost 50$ would usually result in the guy becoming all suspicious, saying he wanted me to guarantee him stuff that I couldn't, and that it was expensive.

Say "Oh you'll need our performance rejuvenation(tm) package, that'll be 400$" and the guy happily pulls out his credit card!