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by enkiv2 7y ago
If it's horrifying and completely wrong, then it needs to be defeated. (Ex., it's a moral imperative to punch nazis.) If it's completely wrong but basically harmless, then there's no point in defeating it. (Ex., you don&
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The Red Queen's Wall(medium.com)
2 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Beelzebub's Tales was intentionally boring for the first 50 pages in order to scare people off. Gurdjieff famously wanted only the first 50 pages pre-cut (this was during the period when new books would have their pages stuck together
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Vallee is fantastic, and I would strongly recommend his books on UFOs as well. He's the kind of serious & careful researcher we need when it comes to studying complex problems that less serious people deny even exist, & his wor
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New Ways to Write(medium.com)
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Reading HN has nothing to do with being a hacker. Based on who posts, this site seems to mostly be used by 'non-technical founders' (i.e., borderline scam artists & naifs who have not yet had their first serious collision with
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The Bystander Effect in Open Source(medium.com)
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by enkiv2 7y ago
strawberries first? sure.
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by enkiv2 7y ago
I make about $5-$10 a month on Medium (and occasionally have made several times that). In comparison, I ran a blogger blog actively from 2006-2013 with adsense monetization, & adsense has made me less than ten dollars in total over the
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Who made my phone do THIS?(dev.to)
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Announcing the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest(medium.com)
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A Manifesto(medium.com)
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The dehumanization of agile and objects (2017)(youtube.com)
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Did anybody ask Ted if he would approve of this? He's pretty picky, & would probably get awfully mad if an IETF standard claimed he approved of something that he actually disliked. (In particular, links here don't seem nearly
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Silicon Valley Hasn't Innovated Since 1978(medium.com)
2 points by enkiv2 7y ago|1 comments
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I Do Not See Myself Represented in Essays on Dating(medium.com)
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Tech Before and After 1980(mobile.twitter.com)
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Procedurally Generated Text: A Writing Process Built for Computers(tedium.co)
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Imagination and the Distribution of Futurity(medium.com)
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Virtue as Skill(twitter.com)
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Freeing Software(medium.com)
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There Is a Techlash(mobile.twitter.com)
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Remarkably similar to a client I wrote a while back ( http://github.com/enkiv2/fern )
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Themes and Structure in Double Mojo VNs(medium.com)
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NTs don't know social rules(mobile.twitter.com)
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Bruce Sterling has consistently been 5-15 years ahead of his time in terms of the direction of popular culture since the late 70s. That is a very good run. He's not hyper-technical, but if you want to know what people will care about
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by enkiv2 7y ago
I have a sort of loose collection of books I'm 'in the middle of' or 'planning to read' at any given time. Generally, I'll pick up a book that I've started that I'm in the mood for, but if something I
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by enkiv2 7y ago
<1mbps is still broadband. Folks are stuck with 24.4k still, over noisy radio signals or unmaintained copper lines.
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by enkiv2 7y ago
On a slow connection (and particularly, a slow & unreliable connection), a couple meg file can take hours to download completely. This is a problem with the internet , not with the web . And, that's if you get the right binary in
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Interview with a Transformer II(medium.com)
1 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments

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