On the functions of money
Good bit of insight: > In my opinion mixing the functions of medium of exchange and store of value has caused untold amounts of needless suffering. You see 2% inflation is the middle ground. Rich…
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A breakdown of viewership by age for Stranger Things. So I don't need to feel too bad about watching (and liking) the show.…
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Aperol Spritz…
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Feel like I get to know about a new large-scale fraudster every day: nymag.com/intellige...…
Costs of war
Amid the recent spate of numbers being thrown around (a few hundred million dollars for these weapons, forty billion dollars for some more stuff), I was casting around for "how to put these numbe…
Resisting the virtual life
A book from the 1990s on "resisting the virtual life". An endorsement of sorts: "At last, a defiant radical critique of the information millenium. . .. A burning barricade across the…
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Face in the cardboard…
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A sharp tick down…
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License to Share
I came across Drew DeVault's essay on source code licenses, from a few years ago, and agreed with the first few lines: I agreed with the first few lines of this essay: I generally preferred the…