Amit Cohen
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Amit Cohen
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”— Henry David Thoreau
This is why the people who score well on intelligence tests and win lots of chess games are no happier than the people who flunk the tests and lose at chess: well-defined and poorly defined problems require completely different problem-solving skills. Life ain’t chess! Nobody agrees on the rules, the pieces do whatever they want, and the board... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Why aren't smart people happier?
Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale
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So it’s useful to ask what absolute power would reveal about Israel and Hamas. In other words, what would each side do if it had nukes and its enemies didn’t? Based on Hamas’s history, and its charter, which calls for the total obliteration of Israel, we can be confident they’d nuke Tel Aviv. And yet, if Israel had nukes, they wouldn’t nuke... See more
Gurwinder • Debunking Myths About Israel & Palestine
<<When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we are undergoing something temporary, that mourning will be over and some restoration of prior order will be achieved. But maybe when we undergo what we do, something about who we are is revealed, something that delineates the ties we
... See moreThe Earth is Rotating at around 600 miles per hour The Earth is orbiting the sun at 67,000 miles per hour, while The Entire Solar system is orbiting the galactic core at 514,000 miles per hour. That makes over 40,000 miles of interstellar travel in 5 minutes. The Galaxies themselves are moving apart at variable speeds....."There is no way, not even
... See moreOh, yeah, the news and Twitter is so toxic; the human brain is not designed to manage every emergency in the world in real-time. We’re not designed to process all the breaking news on the planet in our heads. And this is one of my recent tweets, but the goal of the media these days is to make every problem your problem; that’s how they get
... See more12 Questions For Life
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