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Imperial Wars Always Come Home
There’s a person I think about from time to time.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 490 posts.
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Alien Signals
Memories of long-ago Sunday nights on the road.
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Assange Hearing Day 10
The gloves were off on Tuesday as the US Government explicitly argued that all journalists are liable to prosecution under the Espionage Act (1917) for publishing classified information, citing the Rosen case. Counsel for the US government also argued that the famous Pentagon Papers supreme court judgement on the New…
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The FDA's perpetual process machine
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.
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Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019)
About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a "non-free" repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those…
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Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states
Can a human be happy all the time?
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On “White Fragility”
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism
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Why are there so many cats in Istanbul?
After visiting Istanbul, I wondered why there were so many cats in town. This piece dives into the history & culture of stray cats in Turkey.
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Working remotely crossed the chasm today
From academia to the Open Source movement, remote collaboration is not exactly novel. From Github to DuckDuckGo, remote-first successful businesses are no longer rare.
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Seeing the Smoke
Information on the coronavirus is widely available, and it doesn’t look positive. So why is everyone waiting for permission to do something about it?
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Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
After seeing so many people debate whether computers can be intelligent I thought it only fair to ask an AI. As with previous posts, I picked the best responses, but everything after the bolded pro…
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The GDPR as accidentally explained by people in the US
Bashing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seems to have become one of American activists’ favourite hobbies in the tech field. Some criticism is entirely justified. But many claims that the GDPR is “counterproductive” or “misses the point” are based on misconceptions, rather than an…
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Finding McAfee: a case study on geoprofiling and imagery analysis
Identify past, current, and possible future locations through the geolocation and chronolocation of media provided by a specific user.
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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves
Q: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves Properly answering the following questions really doesn’t call for long blog posts. So I thought I would publish a simple FAQ-like…
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Bill Manning has died
Quantum computing, quantum Internet, Japan, astrophotography
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Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
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Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?
The two most intriguing developments in the recent evolution of the Microsoft Windows operating system are Windows System for Linux (WSL) and the porting of their Microsoft Edge browser to Ubuntu.
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If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?
Another long week in the all-stick, no-carrot revolution