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The Truths of America in 2011

The Truths of America in 2011

Google researchers have combined a number of reputation techniques to create a system that is 99 percent successful in detecting…

7 months ago

Don’t Be Agnostic About Ridiculous Propositions

I don’t know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer,…

7 months ago

Dawkins on Free Will and Moral Responsibility

I often challenge people to describe why their lives have meaning. In most cases, the answers are deeply unsatisfying, both…

7 months ago

Anything Worth Saying is Worth Owning

The iOS/Apple vs. Android/Google debate has been explored for years by thousands of people. We know the arguments and they’re…

7 months ago

SQL Injection is 90% SQL, WebSec is 90% WebDev

It’s stunning to me how stale one can become when they don’t code for a while. I just put together…

7 months ago

Reality is Organization

I’ve not read much Marx. What I know of his work reduces to knowing what others think about what they’ve…

7 months ago

Interesting Web Data from a Day on the Front Page of Hacker News

If we classify projects into four categories by important vs. unimportant, and interesting vs. unpleasant, we can assess what happens…

7 months ago

Digital Inputs and Outputs

I thought it’d be useful recently to take a list of email addresses, say from sales leads, and determine how…

7 months ago

Adding a Trailing Slash to Directories Using Varnish

In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual’s search for meaning and the meaninglessness…

7 months ago

A Philosophical Reason for Preferring Apple Over Android

Everyone knows smart people read and lazy people watch TV, but aren’t they often doing the same thing? I’m reading…

7 months ago