How do we allow everyone who wants to own a firearm do so legally and easily, while at the same time preventing people we as a society agree should not have access to firepower from acquiring them.
Can Markets solve the massacre prevention problem?
In the News: The legal system won’t save us from Sexual Misconduct
Saw this article today, it strikes a similar message to the first part of my article on the #metoo movement. The legal system is a poor choice to seek justice in this area. While survivors who want to seek justice through the courts should do so, “Lawsuits are not a strategy,” They come about it from …
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Why Was the Story Different in 2017?Harvey, Louis, & the Open Secret
have been thinking through this post for a while. Obviously, the national media attention on the Sexual Misconduct of public figures has been building and growing and dominated many news cycles in the last half of 2017. But the question is why now? What changed that meant the #metoo movement could gain traction? As you …
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Design Matters: How Futura became the most ripped off font ever
I was really sick last week, so this is the first post in a few days. I love reading about the history of fonts and design systems. This article is a really deep dive into the back stories of several Futura-like fonts that all came out in the period between WWI and WWII. via How Futura …
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Social Media, A disease we build immunity to?
Social Media, A disease we build immunity to?
Not a Bubble. Investors were right about dotcom.
The people who bet everything that dot-com would change the world, they were not wrong.
Good read, AKA why you don’t have friends.
I think this is really important. It is so hard to find "your tribe" and the odds that they live within walking distance is really small. It also is a reason I think that millennials have started picking downtown urban life over the suburbs. The technical reason is one Elon Musk pointed out in explaining the …
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What Comes After AI? 6 Dangerous Things That Will Happen
What Comes After AI? Part 2: Building the Beast
So what technologies are currently being deployed that could give those sort of machine learning capabilities? Let's look at a couple options that could be used to watch you and determine your current mental state and emotions.
What comes after AI? Part 1.
Artificial intelligence is very hot right now, we have self driving cars on the way, we have algorithms that detect faces, screen possible cancer treatments, translate languages, and even beat humans in Chess, Jeopardy and Go. But what comes next?