Chad Aaron Hall
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Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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Suppose there are 1 million total shares of stock in Noahcorp, but that only 1000 shares of Noahcorp get traded on any particular day. And most Noahcorp shares just sit in people’s accounts and never even get traded at all. Now suppose that the 1000 shares that DO get traded go for $300 a share. Mark-to-market accounting means that we value all 1... See more
Noah Smith • There's not that much wealth in the world
mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again by Elizabeth Hunt, Mangesh Hattikudur, Will Pearson
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
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By contrast, delivering software is more like delivering a gooey crying baby. It’s alive. Squirming, growing, and changing because the technologies it relies on do too. Physical materials rarely change, but web browsers, operating systems, and servers sure do.
Making the Kinopio Source Code Public
• If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.
Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices
Starry Night is not a replica of what the sky looked like that night, it's representation of how Van Gogh saw, his experience.
Perhaps the institution should always be a painful subject to think about, or at least an unromanticized one. As Reason 's Billy Binion wrote, "Presidents aren't saints. They aren't monarchs. They aren't celebrities. And they aren't your friends! The executive leader is an employee of the country—someone whose job was, and still should be, limited... See more
Presidents' Day is a good reminder to treat the presidency with skepticism
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