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My point is that it’s precisely the wrong frame. And indeed, you make my point for me: we can do better than “hope”.

I’m certainly neither arguing for not looking at the past, nor for doing nothing. I’m suggesting that the universalist language of the founding, and then subsequently the brilliant…

America is a country, not a project of universal human redemption. Countries do horrible things at times, yes. And these things should be studied. But it’s high time we abandon the…

Polar looks great! Just the kind of service I’m looking for. (Hope an iPad/tablet version is in the offing alongside mobile.)

Maybe I was reading too far into your statement. But in general terms, politics (and conflict in general) stems from a struggle over the power to allocate scarce resources towards …

Are politics becoming outdated, in your opinion, too?

I can’t judge if the claptrap he quotes the geniuses spouting is effective, but the author’s screed sounds like a classic American snake oil salesman pitch.

One reason Europeans tend to misunderstand America is that they come from comparatively more homogeneous and therefore higher trust societies. America is overall better at integrat…

So much credit goes to Villeneuve, who elevates scripts that could easily go wrong into works of art. See Sicario if you haven't, for example—a script that would have been a pedest…

Also: Consider the source. Sputnik is unreliable and Kremlin-controlled, and whatever analysis they cook up is usually FUD.

Yeah, that's very much not what the World Bank is about.

Holy Christ, I had no idea this existed. Awesome.

Not true: Mike Bostock's stuff is all over the NYT website very frequently. He and Jeremy Ashkenas seem to be key players over there. Very inspiring work from both of them.

Works great with d3.js too. Couldn't've made this map of the early days of the Ukraine crisis[0] without Natural Earth. Also helpful to that end: the Global Administrative Areas[1]…

At the same time, D3 makes all sorts of smart decisions for you when you're making charts with it. I'm always pleasantly surprised, for example, by how D3 picks just the right numb…

This. I'll get properly excited when I see battery life for these things. I suspect there's an ugly surprise lurking there. Already that Moto looks ever so slightly too thick for m…

You couldn't be more wrong.

My favorite thing about the demo video is how its completely bereft of ads. That probably won't be the case in practice—at least not for long.

Except I think the author has this wrong: it won't be "Air" but "Pro", and will be thicker than the Air and more expensive.

Capitalism in the sense you're using it isn't exactly a 'political philosophy'. Manufacture and trade is how human beings organize themselves and interact. If you're not taking tha…

I know it's sort of orthogonal to the point Schneier is making, but to my mind, many of his suppositions relating to Syria are off. I don't think doing preventative strikes even if…

I absolutely loved the first edition, and I will be chipping in. Great work Marijn.

That's right. Internet utopians need to come to terms with the idea that the world is and always will be a cruel jungle. There is emphatically no fix for this. All of human history…

Nope. Newspapers working with leaked documents like this usually give governments a heads-up that they will be running such and such a story and they ask for input on what should o…

It's why I'm liking the Stanford Algorithms course[1] being taught by Tim Roughgarden: it's all pseudocode. I thought about taking the Princeton one being taught by Bob Sedgewick (…