nitin-pai

The atomic and space 'races' were advertised to confer decisive geopolitical advantages on the countries that possessed them. Clearly that didn't happen. The Soviets got their bomb four years after the US, and similarly the US caught up with the Soviets in space. Neither enjoyed a decisive advantage.

More importantly, their 'race' didn't prevent others from developing their own bombs and space capabilities.

For a moment I thought this was about Manzikert, Tonsure, Shriek and Finch...of Jeff Vandermeer's Ambergris trilogy.

I have a simple hack to achieve most of the advantages of the Daylight Computer: set the display of your computer, tablet or smartphone to greyscale. Voila!

Promite is better than Vegemite.

We create the future we imagine: so it is important to imagine the future we wish to create.

A lot of the confusion and anxiety will melt away if we distinguish the terms “optimal” and “desirable”.

The most desirable amount of fraud, corruption or tax evasion is zero.

In the real world we don’t get what we desire. The closest we can came is to the optimal amount, where the marginal cost has to equal the marginal benefit.