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by raleighm 6y ago
On the topic of videos involving Brand and Engelbart, they make amusing cameos in the film by Ted Nelson, which I recently stumbled upon. "Silicon Valley Story -- A Very Short Comedy" https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by raleighm 6y ago
Same here. This is a rare item I don't at all mind seeing every six months or so (it feels like).
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by raleighm 6y ago
“I’ve read all the arguments about femaleness not residing in the sexed body, and the assertions that biological women don’t have common experiences, and I find them, too, deeply misogynistic and regressive.” That’s quite a thing to say wit
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Rediscovering One of the Wittiest Books Ever Written(newyorker.com)
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Whyte Notation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by raleighm 6y ago
Techmeme - https://www.techmeme.com/ Memeorandum - https://www.memeorandum.com/ Arts & Letters Daily - https://www.aldaily.com/
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Yoshiro Nakamatsu(en.wikipedia.org)
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Alba (Rabbit)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions(technovelgy.com)
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The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement (2019)(are.na)
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Oceanic Airlines(en.wikipedia.org)
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About the Yak Collective(yakcollective.org)
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by raleighm 6y ago
Obligatory link to Donald Knuth mishearing this question as "What Makes a Good T-Shirt?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=74BfHoE66rc&feature...
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Why anything that can be for-profit, should be(rootsofprogress.org)
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Tropes Are Tools(tvtropes.org)
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On “Key-Slapping Slippards”(notesfromtheidiotchild.blogspot.com)
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Nomic(legacy.earlham.edu)
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The Case of the Speluncean Explorers(en.wikipedia.org)
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by raleighm 6y ago
The demo is great. Thanks for sharing.
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do(cacm.acm.org)
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Ask HN: How many bookmarks do you have?
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How People Read Online: New and Old Findings(nngroup.com)
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by raleighm 6y ago
We all have powerful non-pecuniary motives: friendship, honor, adventure, etc., and we view ourselves as applying rationality to these pursuits. For example: "If I'm really a friend to Billy, then what I should do here is ...&quot
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by raleighm 6y ago
How so? Clearly I view rationality as an adverbial matter. 1 through 6 remain true even if you add the word "rationally" to the what-matters-most statement. The list would get longer than six.
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by raleighm 6y ago
You equivocate, as we all do, on the meaning of "rational". If "rational people go into corporations" then it can't be the case rationality serves other values (as you also note) because in that case we'd need
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by raleighm 6y ago
Imagine this is something you know to be true about yourself, or is an attitude necessary/useful to fuel innovation: “What matters most to me is doing something daring that plausibly benefits others”. I suspect many people have deep dr
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Museum of Computer Adventure Game History(mocagh.org)
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Fake News: A Legal Perspective (2017)(papers.ssrn.com)
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Butterick’s Practical Typography(practicaltypography.com)
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Report on a Long-Range Forecasting Study (1964) [pdf](rand.org)
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