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The Effect of Piracy on the Tech Media Ecosystem
There are as many highly paid people working in tech as in finance, but they do not support any equivalent to the FT or Bloomberg, any publication with…
Nov 24
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YouTube’s TikTok Clone
Open YouTube on desktop, see a row of “Shorts” and imagine a 40 y/o product manager wondering what to do about TikTok. Apparently the kids like short…
Nov 7
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October 2023
The Tragedy of Twitter
tragedy n. the story of a hero brought down by a fatal flaw Twitter started with two unique features: Thoughts without titles. A blog post has to have a…
Oct 24
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Bad Speech
Bad speech is not the same as false speech. “If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.” Bad…
Oct 11
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September 2023
The Limits of the Existence Proof Argument for General Intelligence
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan The existence proof argument for general intelligence…
Sep 19
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The Sheet Music Tradition
Classical composers from J. S. Bach to Philip Glass published sheet music. That is what makes them classical composers. They have nothing else in…
Sep 6
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August 2023
Moralizing Convenience
Before Spotify, it was common for people to convince themselves that they were pirating music to stick it to the labels, who were supposedly treating…
Aug 19
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July 2023
Why Germany Quit Nuclear Power
When the Fukushima disaster happened, germany was ruled by a center-right coalition out of the conservative CDU and the liberal FDP. Only half a year…
Jul 20
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Dark and light mode are not symmetrical
The terms dark mode and light mode sound symmetrical. If dark mode means that every background is dark, light mode must mean that that every background…
Jul 3
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June 2023
Apple is Still Sabotaging Offline-First Web Apps
Today it's possible to build web apps that work offline, that store data client side, that one can use without sending any data to the server. A server…
Jun 9
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April 2023
Infinitely Nested Window Management
Because any directory can contain subdirectories, the file system can be arbitrarily deep. This organization of nested directories and files is called a…
Apr 29
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Data Imperialism
Imperialism as in "computer science imperialism" or "economics imperialism". Data as in "code is data" or "data type". Data might have connotations of…
Apr 11
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