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12 Nov 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward?First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this del...
11 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments VVoytila
The above is an excerpt from Stanisław Lem's Golem XIV, an essay which this polish futurist published in 1981 and in which he speaks, through the voice of the supercomputer Golem 14, about humanity's journey to where is is now and about where it is...
20 Oct 2021 2 minute read 1 comment trumanrose
The House in the Cerulean Sea is about a Case Worker named Linus Baker, assigned to an orphanage with magical children classified as extremely dangerous. There, he must decide whether the orphanage was well-taken care of (according to some rules and...
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18 Oct 2021 2 minute read 1 comment mercurial9
Have you thought about when last you read a book on personal finance? The personal finance category on Amazon or any bookstore has countless books on the topic. It’s almost as much as the self-help category, and I’ve been wondering which books stood...
15 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments PiiJr36
“the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought” (p. 52) Some governments are able to function by dividing itself into sections. In the United States of America, these are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches that attempt...
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15 Oct 2021 2 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Cryptosocial: How Cryptocurrencies Are Changing Social Media. The book will release later this year from Business Expert Press. This excerpt is from the introduction. // BEGIN // The year 2020 ro...
10 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
I'm finding myself with a fair bit of time to do some reading this past week and coming week. Before mobile phones and all of that, you would often catch me with a book in my hand or in my jacket pockets. In fact, I would often make sure that an...
9 Oct 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Thumbs Up
Hey friends 👋 I'm a big fan of The Defiant. Their content is approachable yet thorough, fun, yet deeply researched 🙌 If you haven't checked them out, you definitely should. Here's how they self-describe in their YouTube bio: The Defiant curates,...
9 Oct 2021 7 minute read 3 comments cryptogod-1
Hi all, I hope everyone is doing well out there, welcome to CryptoGod's blog on all things gaming. Today I’m going to be doing a quick write-up on one of my favorite stories, the Witcher, which as many already probably know is a gaming series as well...
9 Oct 2021 2 minute read 2 comments trumanrose
The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) is about... a lot of things. It involves four main protagonists namely, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha. It has heavy themes on morality and theology, but the main topic is pa...
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