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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Wences gave $100,000 of his own money to two high-level hackers he knew in eastern Europe and asked them to do their best to hack the Bitcoin protocol. He was especially curious about whether they could counterfeit Bitcoins or spend the coins held in other people’s wallets—the most damaging possible flaw. At the end of the summer, the hackers asked
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For years, Yarvin was best known, to the extent that he was known at all, as the court philosopher of the Thiel-verse, the network of heterodox entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and hangers-on surrounding the tech mogul.
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How did we fail him? How did we fail him?
David Kasher • ParshaNut: 54 Journeys into the World of Torah Commentary
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He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In fact, it’s Douggie’s growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.