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Hagaon Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)

Book was so much better than accelerando

Hagaon Users hate change

Every system is gambled, if you pay for Bugfixes, company's will create synthetic bugs.

Software is crystallized behavior, which rots when not in symbiosis with a developer.

Software developer holds the software ecosystem hostage, trying to extract the maximum amount of value.

Hagaon In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes

Happens to Teheran and many Indian cities. Viewable via satellite.

Hagaon People Met in Hotel Lobbies (2017)

Love the cracker cartel conference on how to reduce cost of ingredients.

Hagaon Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)

Give them a way to transmit video tutorials to other gorilla's, skip writing.

Hagaon Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games

If Mercedes was the only supplier of cars run like a state like monopolistic actor.. So capitalistic socialism reigns in a market, people tend to do the usual black market stuff to get on withlife ? Surprise..

Hagaon Researchers use lasers to detect and destroy tumor cells in melanoma patients

If you could embed a Fibre web in deep tissue and give the machine a scan technologie and a waytto move the endpoints, you could micro dose suspicious tissue.

Hagaon Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters

That's from the same school of thought that brought us the Syrian red line on poisonous gas, the successes of the Arab spring and the democratic reforms after tieanmin square? Demanding a revolution far away from danger at the top of your voice while with your voting feet trampling these futures of choice? If you want to remain free get out of Hong Kong while you still can..

Hagaon Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

We can rebuild the desktop we have the technology.

Hagaon Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand

Yes, first you pretend to be a buisness, then you are a business, then you sell out. The dark side of the force knows many secrets, for example reviving past successes by selling your soul. Let the longing flow through you..

Hagaon Locusts destroy crops in 'worst invasion in Sardinia for 60 years'

Joke aside, Italy, Spain and France could get something similar near future

Hagaon Procedural content generation: creating a universe (2015)

Procedural compression is best compression.

Hagaon What is a coder's worst nightmare?

Ugh, code monkey my boss is heavy into that lingua

Hagaon Genetically Engineered Wheat Found in Unplanted Washington Field

In dubio it's also fiscal responsible of the genetic license giver to remove unwanted organisms? Aka pay for selective herbicides?

Hagaon Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman

Maybe most of the monetization "features" are regarded as a CON by most players? Just because sb develops this and his lifelihood depends on it, does not make something good or important in the customers 's eyes.

Hagaon Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

Empires destroy institutions.. they hollow them out until are barely cloths for one figure residing within. Proofing something to an institution is hard. Proofing something to one person is "easyish". The problem is not that one plane manufacturers internal culture allowed falling behind, but that this rot and decay bypassed controlling institutions, because these where hollowed out for empire reasons. You can not defeat this problem unless you solve the root node. Which are hidden deals instead of proper procedure replacing the physics of capitalism.

Hagaon Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

It will fly only to be voted down with customers feet. I know a lot of people who looked on the plane type for the first time during their holiday bookings. This plane is finished.

Hagaon Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

Leaky systemic process abstraction.

Hagaon You don’t want a child prodigy

Because it's the same way unfullfilling as a drug addiction. Sure you have miles instead of needles and dots on the suit instead on the veins, but in the end you miss the one thing that matters-passing a legacy, influencing other life's in a good direction, for a socially acceptable Trainspotting reenactment.

Hagaon Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy

Adapt a perfectly working machine to a mental crutch instead of learning data oriented design?

Hagaon Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978

"I have no reason for concerns as far as I'm concerned", makes for a nice final diary entry for a king.

Hagaon Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978

Defeatist is also very comfy as minimal effort is required.

Hagaon DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

There are ways to be reclassified as a undesirable persona

Hagaon When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake

My grandfather visited Moscow after chernobyl on invitation by some radiation chemistry prof he knew. You had to stand in line to buy a weight quantity of bread and other basic necessitys like cheese, butter oder meat. There was only one type of bread. They ate their eveninglunch in a park. I can not tell how the food was for official delegations but this was what a privat dinner with a relative well off friend looked like.

Hagaon What Should We Do to Prevent Software from Failing?

Don't try to handle all the edge cases, instead in the else give control to the user.

Hagaon The Curse of Genius

The successful ones silence opposition until they fail big time. Then they become ammunition to prevent hiring their kind at entrance level?

Hagaon Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers

Full disclosure?

Hagaon Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems

The gods decided that we shall not wield exponential fire less it serves them, thus your smartphone advanced a thousand years, but your cigarettes lighter did not. To contemplate a fusion driven cigarette lighter is heresy. Theire will shall be done, the thought not even contemplated.

Hagaon Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous

It also empowered generations of risk averse people into positions of veto power. Removing them is surely not safe.

Hagaon The Curse of Genius

For power to emerge there has to be fire. You can't make steam with refined poisonous dirt. 2000 year recorded wisdom told us this much.

Any straw to explain away that my attitude could be a problem for society. Only way to progress is shift the nay sayers out of gear in emergencies.