Buckle up. I grew up in the 1970s. I remember going to the Simon Wiesenthal Center as a child, meeting Holocaust survivors, hearing the stories, seeing the tattoos, watching videos of camps being liberated, looking at pictures of dead, emaciated human beings stacked like cordwood. Adults in those days didn’t shrink from talking about the […]
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The three numbers in the universe that matter most are zero, one, and many. Think about life – tweak the fundamental physical constants a little, and you can imagine a universe in which it never happened. Never could have happened. Or maybe it’s so astonishingly unlikely, such a bizarrely, unimaginably low probability – the equivalent […]
Meter maids Being able to find a parking space Investment bankers The mutual funds in my 401K being well-managed “Bad” hackers attacking organizations I like “Good” hackers attacking organizations I hate (also, the rule of law) Dieting and exercise The feeling of being in shape Taxes Services Materialism Consumer electronics Being interrupted Getting answers immediately Writing Writing […]
Dan Dreams of Coding 