nico λ

@nicomeemes

just a hacker tryna survive

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Fentanyl laced weed has been endlessly debunked. So where does the claim come from? Who keeps on believing that weed is laced with fent? Police do. Politicians do. People who want to believe it keep on believing it. It’s confirmation bias. It sails right through their tunnel vision. Of course fent is in weed! Because there’s a plot by nefarious... See more

Sam Quinones is Wrong, Again

There is less time these days for anything other than economic survival. The internet has moved seamlessly into the interstices of this situation, redistributing our minimum of free time into unsatisfying micro-installments, spread throughout the day. In the absence of time to physically and politically engage with our community the way many of us... See more

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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Software engineers never escape the skill-change vortex, even many years into their careers. Experienced engineers must learn and adopt technologies that didn't even exist when they started out. Developers must constantly retool themselves, even well after their formal education ends.

Nnamdi Iregbulem • Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

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It’s important to note that the concept of a field cannot be broken down into something which has a material or mechanical analogy. Sometimes, physicists think of a field as the aggregate effect of exchange or virtual particles which are governed by a quantum field theory, or the effect of the curvature of space time, but it’s important to note... See more

An Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations

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So the other comments are mostly "nah, this isn't like The Game of Consequences cause technology had nothing to do with it." But I firmly disagree. The piece of technology that wreaks havoc in Most Hated in the Nation isn't the killer bees (even though they are scary), but the social media that enables them. The internet and sites like facebook,... See more

r/blackmirror - Reddit

Why Strauss thinks something “critical” is lost

1. Moral content is emptied out. If the law is only a fence around private desires, it cannot speak authoritatively about better or worse ways of living.

2. Civic virtue withers. Citizens are turned into clients of the sovereign, focused on individual gain, not on common deliberation.

3. Natural right is... See more

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"The prize for doing great work is that you get to do more of it."

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Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities, aims, relationships, projects and identities. These are all relevant to deciding what a good life is for them.

- NYT magazine, The Ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah

Thought provoking