Posts in category: links

3 links: future, present and uncomfortable

A short post with 10 thought-provoking predictions for this decade (e.g. decentralized internet and the world run by Millennials) What Will Happen In The 2020s by Fred Wilson
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Some programming idioms explained

As a perpetually novice programmer, it was nice to see the reasons behind some popular idioms explained.
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Simple status games

Who Wants to Play the Status Game? by Agnes Callard
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Pitfalls of our simplistic moral evaluation system

In The Trouble With “Good” Scott Alexander describes some problems that stem from our evolutionary-induced simplistic good-bad evaluation system (emotivism), that meshes moral beliefs with facts and personal preferences.
I’ll only paste one quote as the post itself has just the right composition to be clear enough while not being too long.
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