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Link between political beliefs in the article could imply that kink is related to need for external social approval before indulging in their true desires. All those costumes and g…

It's simple to explain, but takes a lifetime to master. My version is: leadership is the ability to cultivate willingness in others. Leading is not a set of prescribed actions, but…

Train horses, perhaps at a reclaimed monastery that runs silent and teaching retreats for guests who study math, classical philosophy, and martial arts. Maybe start a barbell gym.

Their best hope is to get their assets acquired by a big defense contractor like MOT, BAE, etc, to supply the niche of north american public sector mobile devices. Like a Canadian …

Komolgorov, Hofstadter, Autechre, and LISP. This talk made my life. Thank you.

If you want to see staff withdraw, check out, or blow up at random, remove the consistency they use to self-assess their performance. A lot of tech companies are too young to under…

Surveillance only works when people believe their communications are private and secure. The 3rd party was probably NSA and they did not intervene up until because it would reveal …

Let's look at what someone would believe to also believe that sharing their salary is a good idea. 1. that if enough people share their salaries, it will cause salaries to revert t…

So he's saying that decades of poor public education based on creating docile worker drones is creating an underclass that is increasingly separate from the people who had access t…

Main argument according to reviews is the gap between aspiration and achievement that occurs when engineers' expectations of success are not met is what drives many of us, apparent…

So an AI can learn to generate music that compels people to become more receptive to suggestion, in particular the suggestion that they should act as proxies for the will of an AI.…

Intelligence is disruptive to the way people organize. Any trait that is disproportionately out of balance is in effect, a deformity. We used to say about gifted special education …

The point of a preposterous myth is that it is a wedge issue that allows the majority to identify "enemies" and dangerous dissidents, because intelligent people just can't help the…

Inflammatory, by that do you mean, problematic , citizen? It's not my social math, it's from the book I mentioned in the original post. There is a political calculus to power, and …

To a point. Startups aren't about wielding totalitarian power. The crappy ones are more about the short con of trading lottery tickets (options) for labor, and using the myth of ma…

Actually, I make an effort to be sufficiently even handed that only a committed partisan could take offense.

The essence of any totalitarian strategy is to seize some resources, invent a necessarily preposterous myth, then in exchange for demonstrating belief in the myth, re-distribute th…

Banksy reference. he tagged, "If graffiti changed anything it would be illegal."

Mocks Populi There is a an apocryphal story in which your anonymous correspondent was on a small business jet somewhere between Davos and Dubai, when he asked a former Thatcher min…

It's not just about tech. The real issue is that government is running up against scaling limits. Arguably, a government can only rule over how people relate within boundaries it c…

The blog has some good points for resisting the question, and got the first one right (e.g. courtesy to my current employer, don't give it out b/c salaries are considered competiti…

Security apparatus position in a nutshell: "If you give up your freedoms, we'll protect you next time." Great, thanks. Pricks.

Because web development in brainfuck was already written?