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Category Archives: Computers
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
From LROB: * Shockley was a terrible manager and a passionate racist, who devoted his post-Nobel decades to publicising home-brewed theories about ‘dysgenics’ or genetic degradation and racial differences being a form of natural ‘colour-coding’ to warn about low intelligence. … Continue reading
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Is author Sherry Turkle alone? Has she experienced a massive increase in loneliness since the development of smart phones or is she just so smart and mature, she can handle technology, while the plebs are not to be trusted with … Continue reading
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Book Club: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy (8-10-18)
MP3: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593/book-club-hackers-heroes-of-the-computer-revolution-by-steven-levy From Amazon.com: This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy’s classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution’s original hackers — those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early ’80s who took risks, bent … Continue reading
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Did The PC Cause PC?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * When you have non-PC stats to report, you describe them in extremely dry language and do not draw any conclusions, letting the reader to so if he wants. Pew Hispanic Trust, for instance, reports a … Continue reading
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NBC Says You Can Watch All Events Live Through Its Sports App
But the app does not work on PCs. I don’t want to watch on a tablet or iPhone. I want to watch on my big screen computer monitor. I guess I need to get Chromecast. By the way, because of … Continue reading
Maybe God Has A Better Plan
I bought a PC (HP Envy 700) two years ago and upgraded to Windows 10 and it gave me such trouble — repeated blue screens of death even when I spent about $200 on a premiere tech repair facility nearby … Continue reading
Steve Jobs – Psychopath
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Seems to me Jobs was a high-functioning Psychopath. Most psychopaths never see jail, and many do very well for themselves in business life. I think if you’re a psychopath with a high IQ, you have … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: Steve Jobs: Nature, Nurture, And Apricot Orchards In Silicon Valley
Steve Sailer writes in 2012: Slugger Yogi Berra liked to say, “You can observe a lot by watching.” And you can observe a lot about what modern Americans actually value just by watching their heroes. Nobody in recent memory earned … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: Aaron Sorkin: Master of the Middlebrow
From Takimag: Steve Jobs, the superbly theatrical film about the Apple cofounder’s turbulent mid-career arc, opened in Los Angeles and New York over the weekend to the best per-theater grosses since American Sniper. It looks as if it will be … Continue reading
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Women In Tech
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Women aren’t interested in tech the way guys are and are still slaves to fashion in professions where talent counts for everything. So of course men won’t take them seriously, really if they are concerned … Continue reading