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If you can get a cautionary tale on having children out of this article, your powers of interpretation are immense or you didn’t read the article at all… “It was the best of times, it was the worst of…

So let it be. Why don't we build another place for our memories to go? Why don't we build the _unstructured_ internet, where the intelligence is not in the mind but in the eye and the pleasu…

This is really neat! A question I had about QR codes: Let’s say I want to produce a QR code that is as close as possible to an image (let’s say the Nike swoosh logo), if I just added that to the cente…

He's not the man we deserve but he's the man we need. He's got beauty, he's got grace, it's Mark Carney against the States. Making everyone say "Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...ark (Carn…

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” - Pascal I like this quote because sooner or later, one discovers it for themselves

At first I was gonna say that if a person prefers the response of an A.I. to yours it is a reflection of your own lack of understanding, articulation, effective communication, etc. Then I remembered a…

> “if the cost of a resource goes up, the total spend on that resource can go down” This is tautologically true in the limiting case of infinite cost.

A significant leap in logic is my middle name :) (I am not an AI)

I wonder, when you have a McDonald's McDouble, do you really care how it was made or do you just care that it's yummeroni and costs $2.99?

On the topic of taste, I think of this quote in Susan Sontag's "Notes On 'Camp'" often: “For taste governs every free — as opposed to rote — human response. Nothing is more de…

Less is a way to signal more, like restaurants which only have 5-6 options available, the impression is they have less so they must be doing more with what they have. Also, it unifies people around a …

The next level of this is Ukraine street maps where you run virtual war campaigns on real streets using drones.