Yes, and if 30 people can sing a symphony in 2 hours, imagine what 120 people could do.

Hours spent working is not the same as productivity.

Twice as many people assigned to a project does not double productivity either.

I could go on…

Don King had an alternative thesis:

https://youtu.be/o4qo161MRNE?feature=shared

You should probably do it twice, before and after. Just to be on the safe side.

Alan Rickman was a treasure. RIP

Nevermind hackers. Look up “corporation in the middle” attacks, which is a prime example of subverting secure channels at scale.

If you don’t own the hardware, nothing you do on it is truly private. Ditto if someone else has admin access to your hardware (eg BYOD scenarios) . Inserting a root certificate into the OS is trivial in both cases.

I thought the point was the inevitability of it all. She could see it, but couldn’t change a thing. At least that’s how I perceived it at the time. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

“Earthworm Jim - The Movie”

I was thinking about the future. Think of a cornered Hitler with access to hydrogen bombs.

Wow that’s even scarier than what I had in mind. Good intentions all the way down.

The fucked up thing about humanity is that we invented our own destruction, put a shiny red button on top and wrote on it “do not touch”. As if there would ever be a scenario where pressing it would make sense. And seeing the rethoric coming out of Russia these days, I can’t help but wonder. Damn, I guess this is what my parents lived with at the height of the Cold War?

Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” series. RIP

Wrong guess.

Harvesting this ice is not carbon neutral.
A ship filled with ice will burn more fuel compared to an empty ship. A refrigerated ship even more so. An ice cube paid with petrodollars to travel a few thousand miles just for some asshole bragging rights, I mean, I can’t even… Why is there a demand for this in the first place?

The gall of claiming this a low carbon business is perplexing. Low compared to what, exactly? If I make solar powered freezers in UAE and freeze distilled water, I’m pretty sure I would get the same results at a mere fraction of the total cost. But hey, no bragging rights.

Call Me Maybe / Carly Rae Jepsen

You took your time with the call
I took no time with the fall
You gave me nothing at all
But still, you’re in my way
I beg and borrow and steal
Swear to Satan it’s real At first sight, and it’s real
I didn’t know I would feel it
But it’s in my way

Yep. Knew it was wrong, but that’s what I heard. TIL what the actual lyrics are.

When the world starts burning, these guys will be selling marshmallows on the side. Fuck everything about this, from the bottom of my heart.