Oct
2
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marginalia of the phantom city
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In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.
‘It’s not based on any particular data point,’ a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. ‘We just wanted to choose a really large number.’
” Hit & Run > A Carefully-Planned, Not-At-All-Slapped-Together Figure Pulled Out of Thin Air - Reason Magazine
Sep
22
“Maybe instead of bailing out things that are too big to fail we should arrange it so the set of things too big to fail is empty.”
Idle thought « The Edge of the American West
Sep
18
“Choose perl if you think that scripting is for quick-n-dirty tasks, and your language ought to look like it. Or if you like how it looks when Snoopy swears.”
The GITS Blog » Choices
Sep
10
“Whatever it is, it doesn’t appear to be working in the Afghanistan border regions with Pakistan. That narrows the possibilities.”
Schneier on Security: Secret Military Technology
Sep
9
“In those pre-internet days (or, more accurately, pre-ISP days), we communicated with each other’s Macs via these modems: plugging telephone receivers into the rubber-grommeted holes of the coupler, we spoke into the Mac’s inbuilt microphone and waited for it to emerge from the other end as (broadly) intelligible speech. It took us a week to fine-tune the system, but in the end we could hold a conversation. We triumphantly told Douglas’s wife, Jane, who asked why we didn’t get rid of the computers, the acoustic couplers, the miles of wiring and the discs. “It’s called a telephone conversation,” she said.”
Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » SanDisk Sansa e2×0
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