Great piece! Bringing Adam Smith to what he really was until he was kidnapped by the Chicago school. Adam Smith’s on Davos - by Max Lawson - EQUALS https://t.co/4Vodz3H5hw
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. For one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor.
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@MarcJBrooker The cost of publishing terrible takes on X apparently is also zero.
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Alan Perlis is more relevant than ever: "Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves." "When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."
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Cette vidéo date de 1989, quand l’IA etait un domaine de recherche de niche. Yann LeCun travaillait sur la reconnaissance de chiffres aux AT&T Bell Laboratories. Il a créé le premier réseau neuronal convolutif (CNN) pour la reconnaissance de caractères. https://t.co/xbiCtCvSo4
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I fed the source code of GCC into a photocopier and the results have disturbing implications.
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'...let us attempt, in an improved society, to calculate the immense distance between the man of learning and the illiterate peasant. The former, by reading and reflection, multiplies his own experience, and lives in distant ages and remote countries; whilst the latter, rooted to
Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books is the funniest video I've watched all week 🤣
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There we go again. As I said: I do think that in Europe, Free Speech as a concept is very poorly understood and not taught in school. It's not that hard - just think about it a bit and you will get it. But you have to think about it. The only restriction to Free speech is
@JOBhakdi It's amazing how some people- especially US and right wing- misrepresent the basics of free speech in a nutshell: They define as censorship ANY rule created to stop violent behavior, they baldly claim ANY limitation is censorship. 1\2
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TIL about CALM Theorem. https://t.co/ADljrdUGeP It's great to discover there's a specific term for an idea or concept you've carried around namelessly in your head.
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A key concern in modern distributed systems is to avoid the cost of coordination while maintaining consistent semantics. Until recently, there was no answer to the question of when coordination is...
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As an ex Amazonian, can confirm this here is the most accurate blow by blow description of Amazon culture. And after all this, once a quarter, a VP will write an email - Dear Team, It’s always Day 1 and <leadership principle > <leadership principle > <leadership principle >
> be me, applied scientist at amazon > spend 6 months building ML model that actually works > ready to ship > manager asks "but does it Dive Deep?" > show him 37 pages of technical documentation > "that's great anon, but what about Customer Obsession?" > model literally convinces
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> be me, applied scientist at amazon > spend 6 months building ML model that actually works > ready to ship > manager asks "but does it Dive Deep?" > show him 37 pages of technical documentation > "that's great anon, but what about Customer Obsession?" > model literally convinces
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this could not have been anticipated
malware found in the top downloaded skill on clawhub and so it begins
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The 60s really did futuristic interiors better than us
Receptionist waits at her desk, General Motors Technical Center, 1965
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People always say that nineteenth-century cities were built by unplanned, competitive, private enterprise. This is usually meant as a criticism, but since I admire nineteenth-century cities, I always thought it was a strong argument for deregulation, competition and
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Finally uploaded "Adaptive Hashing: Faster Hash Functions with Fewer Collisions" to arXiv for better visibility: https://t.co/Jm7O8M1Umb I’ve polished the presentation, fixed typos, and moved to a more readable format from ACM. #HashTables #DataStructures #CommonLisp
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The MV Pacific 88 experienced "loss of stability" at Tanjung Perak Port in Surabaya, East Java, on Feb 2, 2026. At around 04:00, the ship tilted to starboard, causing about 30 containers to fall overboard. (01:00 mark). 1 port worker died. His body was retrieved later
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As a Windows NT4, 2000 and XP kernel developer, on the initial Chrome sandbox team, Daniel is wrong. Win32 is a shithole of legacy compatibility. Absolutely bypass it if you can afford it! Nobody with a thinking head needs 26 emulated current working directories per process.
@stephc_int13 @anaisbetts For starters, kernel32 performs various path transformations as it passes filenames from user programs to ntdll and the kernel. A program using ntdll directly, especially if it isn't careful to emulate win32 semantics (which I doubt Zig takes care to do) will behave unlike other
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Hayao Miyazaki talking about the future of Studio Ghibli
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One of the OpenSSL disasters announced last week (CVE-2025-15469) is really the fault of OpenSSL's detached-signature interface. With a signed-message/message-recovery interface, the bug would have had no effect on security, and would have been easier to catch. Interfaces matter.
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Most animals die after a few decades at most. But a handful of species live flukishly longer. Some clams, sharks and tortoises live for many centuries. The secret to extending human longevity might be hiding at the bottom of the ocean. - The 'immortal jellyfish' can age
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