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The actual title is "What the Silicon Valley Prophet Sees on the Horizon" https://archive.ph/ImxC0 In 2005, Mr. Jobs gave a commencement address at Stanford, cited Mr. Brand as a major influence in his life and e
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> And thanks to pirates, too, because many stuff that I could not literally afford I like to call them Good Samaritans because I also cannot literally afford to buy the interesting things I want. In the age of perpetual copyright and D
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I'm often confused because "decentralized" means different things to different people, like the fable of the blind men and the elephant. BitTorrent and other peer to peer apps are decentralized, but are they really when the d
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> It’s also sad to see my dad hyping up Web3 in his LinkedIn. My father is impervious to subtweets because he won't read anything I write LOL
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Reddit Place is really cool. Place, Hacker News, Reddit and other sites are like global Ouija boards that indicate what is currently interesting to the community mind. Wikipedia reflects what the community thinks is true about a particular
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How would one even attempt to communicate with an octopus? Alien intelligence: the extraordinary minds of octopuses and other cephalopods https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/28/alien-in...
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I've been a computer programmer for 40 years so I'm interested in the computing parameters of the machines I run
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I'm not being snarky. I'm trying to understand the fundamentals because I'm all for the other aspects you describe but I'm wondering if it could be done with a more efficient computing system. Ethereum is not the final a
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I love pen and paper but I just took a look at the Build Back Better bill and it's almost 2500 pages with I'm guessing thousands of edits by hundreds of parties. Pen and paper wouldn't be my first choice for this task https:
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So essentially you may have thousands of computers trying to write to the same file at the same time so you implement a consensus mechanism to determine the final write, something like an n-way diff
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I was attempting to describe the assertions of Ivan Krastev
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This is an incredibly interesting article that everyone interested in Putin's state of mind will enjoy Edit: I made a list of some assertions made so I can cross check some of them: - The West doesn't understand that Crimea is Rus
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You should travel around and see if you're still worried about filling it up
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There were parts of my trip to Alaska where as far as I knew I was the only person in the forest wilderness from horizon to horizon. It was bizarre to experience absolutely no man-made noise. I found a section of Wyoming that was undisturbe
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I'm not surprised by racism. I'm surprised at the anti-immigration sentiment as public policy. I understand that racists vote in racist representatives, but at some point the representatives will have to make the case for more imm
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This is why I'm flabbergasted by people who oppose immigration to the United States. We are lucky to be a country that young people want to move to. Additionally, I've road tripped 100k miles all over North America. One surprising
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A starting point for exploring Wikipedia is "List of lists of lists" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
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My version is meme-able because it's short and that meme has won since I hear it oft repeated. However, I appreciate the additional detail of how Microsoft got from Java to C#
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The reality is: most companies are taking economic advantage of the generous spirit of open source developers. That needs to stop. SPONSORING OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS Rich Hickey - December 15, 2020 https://cognitect.com/blo
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Switchblade 300(vimeo.com)
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If you're curious, this is an informative video of a debate between the designer of TypeScript and the designer of the Dart VM about which was the better approach. Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart https:
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I've programmed a lot in both Dart and C# and my take is that Microsoft looked at Java and decided they needed a Java-like language like so they made C#. Google was into Java but Oracle sued them over it so they decided they needed a J
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https://archive.ph/nFIk5
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American Masculinity After World War II(nationalww2museum.org)
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My inspiration is Harland Sanders. He started KFC when he was 62 surviving on social security (I'm 64) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders
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This article rings true. I'm 64 and I've only kept one life long friendship going on 30 years. All the others are gone and don't want to haven anything to do with me. Thinking about it now, I've kept the one friendship f
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When I first got internet in the 90's I became aware of an art collective that was fronted by a personality name "Netochka Nezvanova". I got the impression that this kind of thing was nothing new. Maybe your last name "B
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no pay screen: https://archive.ph/X0AkX
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Biden Restores California’s Power to Set Stringent Tailpipe Rules(nytimes.com)
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Tech companies race to extract employees from Russia(washingtonpost.com)
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