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Re:Sartre and Borges on Orson Welles on Friday May 01, 2015 @07:12PM (#9475095)
Agreed, his writing is beautifully dense and surprising.
Re:BIT Poised to Become Publicly Traded Bitcoin Fund on Sunday March 01, 2015 @09:00PM (#9129888)
It is not an ETF.
Re:NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005) on Monday November 24, 2014 @08:44PM (#8655868)
That paper is awesome. I would rank it with Dawkin's The Selfish Gene as a transcendent perspective changer--insight through the written word that comes along a few times in a lifetime.
Re:The next SOPA on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:16PM (#3492309)
There should be a constitutional amendment protecting the Internet and its underlying structure. Maybe not today, maybe it's premature, but one day soon this will seem appropriate and needed. It would put the Judicial branch on our side.
Re:Military technology: Magic bullets on Sunday January 15, 2012 @11:20AM (#3467454)
War without rules would be a greater horror. Even the ancients had them (Julius Caesar himself was charged with war crimes). How could closure and peace be negotiated, for example, without protection for emissaries.