Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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And so today, even if the underlying code of an application is open and free, your data gets routed through a centralized server run by a corporation that could arbitrarily read your data, change the rules on you or deplatform you at any time.
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood
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Schopenhauer believed that all of human experience runs along a pendulum that swings from two poles: one of desire, and the other of satisfaction. We strive when we have desire, so the only way to alleviate this is to experience the pleasure that comes with satisfaction. But once you’re satisfied, boredom ensues, and desire inevitably arises yet... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Riddle of Happiness
Homicide: Life on the Screen by Tod Hoffman
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The cliché is to have a character inform another character with an info dump or a quote and have the other character react to hearing it as if they are hearing it for the first time or learning something. What is more interesting is to have the second character already know what the first person tells them. This imbues the second character with
... See moreNext, the researchers used computer modeling to analyze known earthwork sites and predict their spread across the Amazon. That work considered a range of geographical factors such as distance to water, elevation and soil type (sandy soils, for instance, make short-lived earthworks). That work yielded the estimate that there are at least 10,000... See more
10,000 Pre-Columbian Structures Could Be Hidden beneath Amazon Rain Forest
An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.