Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Several such software packages exist, and they are easy and cheap to translate into other languages.
Bjorn Lomborg • Best Things First
The solution provided by Bitcoin is in some sense the purest yet conceived in that it captures this information as speech — we only use software to check the grammar.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
A história do dinheiro para os economistas sempre começa no reino da fantasia do escambo. O problema é onde situar essa fantasia no tempo e no espaço: estamos falando dos homens das cavernas, dos nativos das ilhas do Pacífico, das primeiras colônias norte-americanas?
David Graeber • Dívida: Os primeiros 5 mil anos (Portuguese Edition)
they stumbled upon a crucial detail—Indo-European
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
The Interpreter
newyorker.com
It’s probably never going to work in German: A roundtable discussion with localization and internationalization experts from Amazon, Dropbox, and Kickstarter.
Addison Phillipsincrement.comRedundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion. It provides second chances. Every natural language has redundancy built in;
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Extreme cases like Icelandic (very slow change, with a replacement rate of only 3–4% per thousand years) and English (very rapid, with a 26% replacement rate per thousand years) challenged the utility of the “average” rate.
David W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
