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I've always read Hamlet as very much about the gap between internal activities and the way they are recorded or remembered. The big joke of Hamlet is that from the outside, his sto…

Fun fact: Dick, for his part, thought Lem was the alias for a committee of Communists dedicated to destroying science fiction. https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw…

I see. Did you read the article?

Of course there's a need to make that calculation. The military's calculation is based on people's willingness and reluctance to work for them, and they offer to pay because they h…

How much collaboration from private tech does the US military need to maintain global dominance? Where does this line of reasoning end? How much of your day, specifically, should y…

It blew my mind when I first realized why pigments were so valuable in the ancient world: before modern mass-production of countless different mixable pigments (and now, digital di…

de Grey seems like a great guy; he's a fantastic speaker, I generally agree with his vision of humanity, and this proof is impressive. I haven't attacked his character, nor do I pl…

There's also the tiny issue that he hasn't produced anything of value.

No large cities?

Unrelated, but it's fascinating to see an article from 2013 reference Andrew Auernheimer as a benign hacker. That's turned into a hell of a story on its own, huh.

He is neither.

Should be noted, on the subject of easily verifiable facts, that DeLong is not a leftist.

Sure, but you don't have to design your platform to incentivize making people angrier.

...unless it violates someone else's property rights. The point of capitalism is that people can own things, and you can do what you want as long as you don't violate that system o…

Bitcoin's caused some hilarious lessons in what "decentralized" actually means. Bitcoin isn't controlled by some nasty evil central bank; it gets to be controlled by a mostly rando…

This attitude was applied to the space race. What's funny is that it's being applied to getting people to click on memes.

It doesn't matter that it's nonsensical in providing actual security; it's here to provide security theater and justify arbitrary punishments.

But is this really a tradeoff we're making, or just two trends? It's pretty glib to say "well, inequality is worse, but that's the price of better technology"; inequality is worse …

This has been posted around, and I always feel I should point out: this is a ludicrous headline and generally misleading framing of an idea that's actually pretty interesting and p…

I've found this is usually more the paper-thin justification /b/ users employ to avoid noticing that a culture based entirely around judging others for being too hysterical quickly…

The font doesn't really look anything like the wordmark (unless there's a condensed version?) so I'd assume they're separate.

That's a... nonstandard use of the word collusion.

People don't want to go to prison the first time, either.

What postmodernist books have you read?