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CES 2012: the Copycat Electronics Shitshow
Reading the work of PC enthusiasts trying to describe Apple is like listening to creationists try to describe the scientific method. They want to believe they are intellectual and understand things, but there’s simply certain things they desperately want to believe regardless of the facts and evidence available, which makes it impossible for them to see past their imaginary trees and recognize the...
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December 2011
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We found each other in the cosmos...
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — and ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again.
Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we...
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“Stellar fire was your womb, and stellar fire will be your grave: a just course...
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TROLLS
A user on Hacker News recently posted a comment that set me thinking:
Something about hacker culture that never really set well with me was this—the nastiness. … I just don’t understand why people troll like they do.
I’ve thought a lot over the last couple years about the problem of trolls. It’s an old one, as old as forums, but we’re still just learning what the...
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