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Simon Funk's online novel After Life depicts (among other plot points) the planned extermination of biological Homo sapiens - not by marching robot armies, but by artificial children that are much cuter and sweeter and more fun to raise than real children. […] "In the end," Simon Funk wrote, "the human species was simply marketed out of existence."
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Acquisitions are about enabling growth in a hot new market, and not about sustaining revenue in a mature one.
ars technica on why Apple won't buy AMD
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But if I'm right about the acceleration of addictiveness, then this kind of lonely squirming to avoid it will increasingly be the fate of anyone who wants to get things done. We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.
Paul Graham on Addiction
The language and idea space of the field have become so convoluted that they have confused even themselves.
On Literary Criticism
Sounds about right to me.
According to a paper by Jennifer Brown, an applied macroeconomist at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Mr. Woods is such a dominating golfer that his presence in a tournament can make everyone else play significantly worse. Because his competitors expect him to win, they end up losing; success becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The first case study appeared in 2002 in the journal Sexual Abuse and documented the story of a low-IQ’ed, antisocial, fifty-four-year-old convict who had a strong sexual interest in horses. In fact, this was why he was in prison for the fourth time on related offenses; in the latest incident, he had cruelly killed a mare out of jealousy because he thought she’d been giving eyes to a certain stallion. (You thought you had issues.)
Words fail me.
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In “Alice,” he attacked some of the new ideas as nonsense — using a technique familiar from Euclid’s proofs, reductio ad absurdum, where the validity of an idea is tested by taking its premises to their logical extreme.
Reductio ad absurdum. Should use if ever writes another university text.
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Historically, anything that's new and different can be seen as a threat in terms of the religious beliefs; almost all religious systems are about permanence
Liberalism, Atheism, and IQ
The article states that current research indicates a (statistically significant though not extraordinary) correlation between liberalism / atheism and intelligence.
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I know it always takes me a long time to grasp any new programming paradigm. I still don't quite get the idea of monads in Haskell. You see, unlike laymen, programmers are regularly challenged with new ways of abstracting information (be it entire programming paradigms, new frameworks, or just a new way of factoring their own code) and eventually become adept at this meta-skill.
How programming probably affected my ease of learning systems theory
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“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.” - Steve Jobs
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“Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” - Gertrude Stein
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Favela – Das sind die Armenviertel in den Randgebieten brasilianischer Großstädte. Du kannst dir das ungefähr so vorstellen, wie bei uns in Kinderhaus oder Coerde, nur insgesamt abgefuckter und größer. Also eher wie Hamm.
:D
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Whatever anyone says about Apple, if it wasn't for Steve Jobs there would be no legitimate music online.
Everybody was lost. The record labels were frozen. When he came up with iTunes, it gave us a [legal] way to get the license ready to go online.
Before iTunes, Napster was out of business for two or three years, and then Kazaa and other file sharing started. There was no legitimate way to buy music. I think his impact on music has been extraordinary.
Much like Apple saved the music industry with the iPod & iTunes combination, I'm quite confident that they're now en route to save the dying newspaper business with the upcoming tablet. Whatever one might think about Apple: For the valuable sake of keeping journalism alive, let's hope they succeed.
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Dass Esposito dabei an Luhmanns Ausführungen zum Thema Individualität anknüpft, um die Dialektik von durch Nachahmung erreichter Originalität zu beschreiben, ist nicht weiter verwunderlich und zudem sinnvoll.