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rpastuszak's work is a consistent source of inspiration and fun. It's what I wanted the web to become.

This sentiment seems sort of sad. The medium is the message. If the medium is small, the message will be small. It may be succinct and you may think you "get it", but without evidence, examples, and context, they won't stick. It's like a good tweet: repeatable and rolls of the tongue, but easily refutable and without context. I cannot imagine compressing all of the ideas in a book like "Antifragile" or "Godel, Escher, Bach" in 10 pages. It would be so short as to be meaningless, the ideas are too big.

Same for fiction. I don't want 10 pages of world building. I want immersion. "The Sun Also Rises" would be miserable at 10 pages. Nobody is trying to communicate an idea in this case, they're communicating an aesthetic, a "vibe" or a mood. 10 pages of that and on to the next thing? Sure, if that's your medium, but the medium is the message, and the book is a unique medium for communicating big ideas, immersive worlds, and extensive moods and aesthetics. I sure hope the medium for those things isn't out of date or the world will seem a little shallow.


Actually it’s quite literally a decimation, if you know the root of the word.


Like a penetration test or a security test, you don't know where you're out of compliance until you perform an audit; you don't normally shut down your site in the meantime.

The correct way to comply with this is to suggest that you don't believe that you're out of compliance, and to request specific guidance on which particular datasets aren't in compliance that should be removed.


There are easier ways to do this from the beginning of your loan, like making sure you put 20% down and paying higher closing costs. If you tell your lenders that you refuse to pay PMI my experience has been that one of them will make it work.


The irony of reading this article surrounded by a cacophony of flashing and scrolling ads is not lost on me.


"Our findings provide evidence that loneliness is associated with deviations from the zeitgeist, specifically when it comes to perceptions of well-known celebrities"

Soooooo... thinking differently than the majority of people may lead to loneliness, because those who think differently than the zeitgeist have a hard time connecting with the majority of people because of the way they think?


The Vital Question covers this topic and is in general a really great basic education in biological energy production.


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I read George Dyson’s “Analogia” with a bit of skepticism a few years ago, now all of the sudden it feels relevant (if you can make it past all of the chapters on kayak-building).


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