The Feynman Series
Pra quem gostou do The Sagan Series, chequem o The Feynman Series: As outras partes estão lá no Youtube. Enjoy.
Well, at some point, the thing you add to the watch is more significant than the watch. I’d argue he’s wearing a thermometer with a clock on it.
Humanity had always trafficked in oppression. Before the corporate marketing department got ahold of it, it was called conquest. Now it was regional development. Vikings and Mongols were big on revenue targets, too—but Leland had dispensed with all the tedious invading, and had taken a page out of the Roman playbook by hiring the locals to enslave each other as franchisees.
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
In essence, computer systems needed to do only one of two things: make money or save money. Everything else was just details. Scut work.
The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it….
The Daemon is not an Internet worm or a network exploit. It doesn’t hack systems. It hacks society.
Technology. It is the physical manifestation of the human will. It began with simple tools. Then came the wheel, and on it goes to this very day. Civilizations rise and fall based on technological innovation. Bronze falls to iron. Iron falls to steel. Steel falls to gunpowder. Gunpowder falls to circuitry.
...the Great Diffusion has begun—an era when the nation state dissolves. Technology will cause this. As countries compete for markets in the global economy, diffusion of high technology will accelerate. It will result in a diffusion of power. And diffusion of power will make countries an ineffective organizing principle.
This was the very essence of capitalism: thriving on chaos.
But now he understood again. The world made sense again—and he was still all for progress. Disruptive innovation, they called it. Change was good. Painful, but good. It made you stronger. When you stopped changing, you started dying.
As the device came to rest on its rounded bottom, a pocket laser beamed bright red light onto the stained drop tiles of the ceiling—creating a marquee-like sign in large glowing red letters. The letters spelled out the message the Daemon wanted to send—the message associated with operation 4-9-1-5: ALL SPAMMERS WILL DIE
...the Daemon is a remorseless system for building a distributed civilization. A civilization that perpetually regenerates. One with no central authority. Your only option is what form that civilization takes. And that depends on the actions of people like you.Quotes from Freedom
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
Persistence and presence create truth online.
...we must defend the core of our civilization: which is commerce. And commerce requires capital. That no longer means gold bars in a vault; it means ones and zeros in a database.
You can’t even stop teens from stealing music. How are you going to stop me?
The Daemon’s darknet is just a reflection of the people in it. It’s a new social order. One that’s immune to bullshit.
Well, the public doesn’t really decide anything now—they just select from the options they’re given.
Nursing anger against people long dead is a waste of one’s life.
I can’t help but wonder, just as evil sometimes arises from good intentions, if good can’t sometimes grow from evil.
Price wore a crisp black T-shirt bearing the slogan “I’m undermining civilization. Ask me how
Too much power in too few hands defeated the common good, while too little power in any single person’s hands made it hard to get anything done.
Question everything. But don’t be surprised if the world you thought you knew never existed.”
- Attempting to bribe a government official is a serious crime in China. - Attempting, perhaps. What about succeeding?
And besides, we have democracy in China. People get to vote with their money, just like they do in America.
Morris’s three golden rules of computer security: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use one.
When he joined the army, it was with the hope that they would give him the discipline he needed to conquer his sick compulsion. But on the contrary, in the army he found that pain—and the infliction of it—had a long and storied history. It was, in fact, the history of the world. No great nation or empire could exist without it. It was in some ways the guardian of all that was good. Fear of pain kept men honest.
Dois livros "de grátis" sobre data mining:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.htmlhttp://chem-eng.utoronto.ca/~datamining/dmc/data_mining_map.htmEsse é um post pra ilustrar a diferença de qualidade dos produtos nacionais e internacionais.
Esse ano a Panini lançou o primeiro volume da versão nacional do Absolute Sandman (aqui virou edição definitiva).Eu comprei, feliz da vida, porque já tinha começado a ler uma cópia de backup, e é uma obra que vale a pena ter. A qualidade é muito boa, mas não achei que justificava o preço cobrado (mais de 120 reais). Bom, quando acabei de ler, fiquei com vontade de comprar e ler os outros volumes, mas como sei que o ritmo de lançamento no Brasil não é dos melhores acabei apelando pra boa e velha amazon. Eis que hoje me deparo com isso: É uma coisa gigantesca, impressionante. A título de comparação:
Ambos os volumes têm aproximadamente 600 páginas, porém a versão americana é uns 30% mais "funda" (papel de melhor qualidade).
Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of the false serenity.
The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can't your universe merely be?
There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you posses is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?
3 quotes de uma vez:
"[...] have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?"
"[...] wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery."
"A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors."