Stumbled across 11th August 2013
- A thousand times this (EDIT 2022: the link is dead and I have no idea what I was referring to).
- A possible fix for the “economic problem of democracy”: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html
- A fascinating look at privacy online, how we’re not built for privacy, and how tribal cultures attain privacy: https://aeon.co/essays/facebook-s-privacy-settings-aren-t-the-problem-ours-are/
- I’m all for healthy competition and so forth, but do we really want such massive phones? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/the-smallest-new-android-phone-you-can-buy-isnt-small-at-all/
- This is the kind of thing that I never quite have the courage or the morals to do: http://web.archive.org/web/20130809202515/http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/A-Russian-Bank-Is-Sued-for/8/7/2013/id/51205
- This is an excellent summary for why I’m trying to find a good Gmail replacement: https://ar.al/notes/schnail-mail-free-real-mail-for-life/
- A guide for dealing with introverts (not that many of my friends need it - perhaps that’s why they’re my friends): http://laughingsquid.com/how-to-live-with-introverts/
- I didn’t know this was such a wide-spread problem: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
- I agree with this article on the state of maths teaching entirely - I had some excellent teachers, but I could see from the textbooks how it was designed to be taught: http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mnewman/LockhartsLament.pdf
- How is it that Scandinavia manages to be so nice all the time?! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23655675
