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Let Not RIP Aaron Swartz’ Legacy
Aaron Swartz is dead. There is no arguing the fact, we can only disagree why he died. His girlfriend says: “I believe Aaron’s death was caused by exhaustion, by fear, and by uncertainty.” (source) I,...
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Does the Universe Love Us?
Let’s see. The universe created particles to form atoms. It created the carbon atom and built DNA with it. It evolved for 13.77 billion years to create the world that we see today, in which we live and...
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Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker
A couple of ideas taken out from the video “Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker“: In the 1980s, IBM considered 1000 lines of code per year the average productivity for a software developer...
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Smart Phones Vs Recreation
In some companies, a culture of “always on” has crept in. People are getting emails and phone calls in their spare time. As a solution, add this to your contract: For every minute you spend on work...
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Justice with Michael Sandel
Justice, even more than money, is a key motivator for people. This is true for simple experiments, like the Ultimatum Game, and big topics, like the global financial crisis of 2007/08. Michael Sandel...
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How Laws Against Child Pornography Protect Criminals
IMPORTANT: This article is about the short-term possession of images with naked children on them, not about the production, rape or abuse of children. It’s about the collateral damage created by...
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The End is Nigh, Part 2
A while ago, I asked whether wars on water, burning fossil fuel or air conditioning will kill us first. Turns out it’s probably air conditioning. Currently, we’re facing a couple of problems. We’re...
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Why God Can’t Exist
A little thought experiment. Nothing in an experiment is true but it can help you understand. God is said to be almighty. If She is, then She should be able to create the perfect world, a place where...
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NSA Killed Groklaw
I’m not sure how to process this. Because of the ubiquitous surveillance by the US government, Groklaw closed shop. Pamela “pj” Jones just didn’t feel like she could continue her work in such a...
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Nice Debt Collectors Make More Money
It’s a fact that the majority or the “obvious” is often wrong. During World War II, groups of engineers tried to figure out how to best reinforce airplanes to reduce losses of life and material. For...
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As I Began To Love Myself
This text/poem is attributed to Charlie Chaplin but there is some discussion whether this is true or not. I’m not sure what is correct but I feel that the poem itself is too important to bother much...
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People Despair When They No Longer Experience Themselves as Efficacious
Simple fact: When you feel helpless, unable to change your circumstances, and when your input doesn’t spawn any reaction, you despair. Tagged: Despair
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import this
During the Flask presentation yesterday, I learned about an Easter egg in Python: “import this” which will print: The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than...
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Unhappy?
This might help: The Holstee ManifestoCopyright information Tagged: Holstee Manifesto, Life
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How We See Things
We don’t see things how they are, but how we are. As Sheldon from Big Bang Theory said: “Text adventures run on the world’s most powerful graphics chip: Imagination!“ Everything you see or hear happens...
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Handicapped
Disabled people aren’t handicapped, they are getting obstructed. Tagged: Philosophy
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Balancing Security
For your IT security, you want Security It must be cheap And comfortable Now choose at most two. As always in life, everything has a cost. There is no cheap way to be secure which is also comfortable....
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What Police Work Can Be Like
Police violence gets a lot of attention lately but that’s not a solution (neither the violence nor the media heating it up). Here is one solution: Remember: Helping people before they commit crime is...
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Surveillance Produces Blackmail Instead of Security
They say that “good” people have nothing to hide and, therefore, nothing to fear from surveillance. Everyone of us has something to hide. When we are confronted with out dark side, immediate, temporary...
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Trouble Sleeping?
There are people who are proud that they don’t need much sleep. Don’t listen to them. People who don’t sleep enough make more mistakes, they are dumber than they could be, they ruin their health, their...
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