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Weird, Dangerous World of Japan’s Girl ‘Idols’(thedailybeast.com)
3 points by zakum1 8y ago|1 comments
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Ansel Adams gallery(anseladams.com)
2 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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A 4 year old boy trapped in a teenager’s body(thecut.com)
41 points by zakum1 8y ago|13 comments
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by zakum1 8y ago
Noble aspirations (including those of the founding fathers of the US) that rational dialogue is the answer and not censorship need to be reinterpreted in a Facebook-world where dialogue is largely impossible. It demands a new citizenship, w
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Sustainability is questionable for these firms. Ride hailing and similar services are more likely to evolve into local offerings. It is not a difficult business to replicate, technically, while regulation, infrastructure, social concerns ca
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Digital architecture in complex organisations(hackernoon.com)
3 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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was not claiming China does not have faults. Imagine if China instigated a coup in a Middle Eastern country. The outrage would be massive. My real point is the hypocrisy of the west, that we cannot objectively see the problems with instiga
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by zakum1 8y ago
I was not claiming China does not have faults. Imagine if China instigated a coup in a Middle Eastern country. The outrage would be massive. My real point is the hypocrisy of the west, that we cannot objectively see the problems with instig
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Over the last 70 years, this has been the pattern of US foreign policy: Destabilising countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America, for narrow economic or ideological benefits. It is all too easy to justify it as “our meddling”
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How Plato foresaw Facebook’s folly(nytimes.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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The article avoids mentioning the most important issue around central bank issued digital currencies: Currently my electronic cash balance represents a deposit at a commercial bank. On the other hand, when I hold physical cash, it is a dire
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Leading from the heart by learning from Chairman Mao(link.medium.com)
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by zakum1 8y ago
In the history of Lisp, the paper by Richard Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html , “Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big” is insightful and beautifully written. I am surprised it is not mentioned in the article
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Heart breaking. Congratulations to the BBC for this amazing analysis. But real justice would require telling the story of how these women came to be murdered. This region in Cameroon is a flash point for a regional fight against a Muslim fu
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The writer correctly identifies the issue as a failure of policy, not markets, so comments that markets are working seem to miss the point. At a policy level, we are largely powerless to effect any change, simply because the numbers at stak
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by zakum1 8y ago
Identity runs deep - this is an amazing story - and shows how much we still need to discover about identity. As a white person, born in Africa, issues of identity loom large, and (in a way) it is a privilege to be exposed to many identity s
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by zakum1 8y ago
Isn’t the answer that we are moving towards decentralised / self sovereign platforms with more creative ways to transfer value that naturally evolve the right economics? The irony is that bitcoin, the pioneer, confirms your hypothesis
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The concept of powerful and simple code navigation can be mind blowing for productivity. While modern editors have become slicker, I think that many have lost the customisation from macros that made it so easy for emacs users to create thei
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How sustainable is this before it starts to destroy trust and integrity in the friendships between these kids. As an adult, I would not like my friends to be promoting products to me rather than expressing their real preferences and insight
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by zakum1 8y ago
In South Africa, the previous President, Jacob Zuma, famously used a label “clever blacks” for well educated black people who he felt didn’t support his populist / traditionalist policies. across cultures in SA, there is a definite “ma
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by zakum1 8y ago
Is the ability to “forgive oneself” sustainable? Does the initial “help” from MDMA empower the person to learn to permanently see themselves and their experiences in a new way? As someone who believes that developing ourselves comes from th
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Ben’s book “Tge hard things about hard things” gives a more detailed account of this story through a series of lessons learnt. It is a phenomenal story and leadership guide.
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The wisdom of it is so relevant. It is amazing that almost everything we believe that we need to live a good life has been so clearly articulated 2000 years ago (and earlier) consistently by people across a wide range of cultures. But we st
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by zakum1 8y ago
This is a fantastic description. As smart, analytic thinkers it is so easy to generalise. My experience is that we should generalise when we are creating conceptual designs, but be very lean and specific in the implementation.
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This article is many months old. More recent data is showing solid wage growth. Nevertheless, many of the comments on underlying economic challenges for workers are still valid.
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Having worked in corporate IT, with all its human and technical challenges, i agree that the "sociotech" elements are critical for engineering, but I also think that corporates massively misunderstand the value of the hacker cultu
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The reason that software projects deliver so poorly in the corporate world is that senior executives and investors understand them so poorly that a large amount of recognition and attention goes to those who can "bullshit" rather
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A sample of lottery players is hardly a representative sample. I think people who don’t enter lotteries, besides understanding statistics better, are more likely to believe money is not the source of their success and fulfilment.
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It is a good story and has made impact in Africa, but there isn’t really a true need for global ride hailing services. These should be locally run, with all economic benefits going to local communities and investors.
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One scary side of this is that it appears to have led ordinary people who see the system as rigged to elect an “anti establishment” president who is even more zealously rigging the system. American politics needs profound change and brave n

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