Fascinating: In 1991, a gigabyte of hard disk storage cost around $10,000, perhaps a touch less. (Today, it costs around four cents ($0.04).) Back in 1991, a gigabyte of flash memory, which is what the iPhone uses, would have cost something like $45,000, or more. (Today, it’s around 55 cents ($0.55).) The mid-level iPhone 5S…
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1. Most Blues begin, “Woke up this morning…” 2. “I got a good woman” is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, “I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town.” 3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right,…
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Great advice, here… MARRIAGE ADVICE I WISH I WOULD HAVE HAD: Obviously, I’m not a relationship expert. But there’s something about my divorce being finalized this week that gives me perspective of things I wish I would have done different… After losing a woman that I loved, and a marriage of almost 16 years, here’s…
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Lots of material gathered this weekend, as you may be able to tell…
Why are Russia and the US interested in the Ukraine? Glad you asked. Here is an hour long conversation that should clarify, in part:
because machines that save us time and energy are the reason we have so much free time today:
People have been asking me about Thomas Pikkety’s new book. No, I likely will not read it – too much other reading to do that doesn’t involve lofty ideas of global technocracy. But I have watched two of his speeches, and read probably 20 analyses of his book. Here are a few. And here is…
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This article is a glimpse of an argument to come on SNV. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is a paper written by Eugene Wigner, Nobel Laureate in physics, noting how incredibly strange it is that mathematics defines our world so completely. A lecture about the article can be found here, but…
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