Tagged “opinion”
- An Ode to Individuality
- The Fax Machine Should Have Died Decades Ago, and Why It Has Not Is the Interesting Part
- Heritability and the Discomfort That Follows It
- Football Is a Lottery, Which Is Exactly Why It Works as an Identity
- The Engineers Pay for Everyone's Fantasies
- Is Short-Timescale Algorithmic Trading Good or Bad for the Market?
- Read the Spec of Representative Democracy as If Someone Were Proposing It Today
- Microsoft's Damage Was Never Mainly About the Desktop
- The Long-Term Damage Windows Has Done to the Tech Industry
- The University Does Not Produce Non-Conformists, and Here Is the Checklist
- Why I Criticise Religion So Much: It Is the Best Single Predictor of a Person
- Nobody Has a Get-Out-of-Politics Card
- Representative Democracy Cannot Bind Its Future Self
- The Internet Atheists Are Giving the Other Side Too Much Credit
- Silence Has Never Killed a Bad Idea
- Commented-Out Code Should Still Have to Compile
- A Book Idea: Culture as Something to Shed
- We Have Been Lucky With Our Superpower, and We Should Say So
- The Singularity Breaks Ideologies
- Both the Left and the Right Contradict Themselves, and Neither Notices
- The Lottery Salesman Who Agreed With Me and Kept Selling
- Work on the Whole Society, Not the Neighbourhood
- Politics Is About Organizations, Not People
- Orwell Was Right About the State, and That Is No Longer the Whole Problem
- The News Is Not Trying to Inform You
- Art Teaches the Wrong Way to Think
- Justice Costs a Lawyer, and That Is Not an Accident
- You Fight Differently When Everything You Own Is on the Beach
- A Cruel Metric for Journalism, and Why Almost Nothing Scores
- A Monopoly Does Not Need to Serve You, and the Electricity Company Proves It
- The State Lottery Is a Tax That Only the Poor Pay
- I Accuse the Israeli Political System
- Mass Mourning for People Nobody Knew
- I Accuse the Israeli Education System
- Philosophy Is Hard to Read Because It Had to Be
- An Open Letter to Children About the Things School Told You That Are Not True
- Universal, Ancient and Respected Are Not Evidence That a Thing Was Good
- Education Costs Nothing Now, So Stop Selling It
- We Solved Subsistence and Kept the Fear
- Accounting Is a Job Software Already Does, and We Keep the Humans to Have Someone to Blame
- Big Pharma Is Paid to Treat the People Who Would Have Recovered Anyway
- Dispersed Power Is More Moral
- Biology Proves Hierarchy Is Optional
- Films Are Negative for a Reason, and It Is Not the Reason I Am
- Social Media, Not Music, Moves Communities
- What Bitcoin Advocates Leave Out
- Institutions Almost Never Die, and That Fact Is Evidence
- Fighting the Identities Imposed on You
- A Curriculum of What Schools Refuse to Teach
- The Higher You Climb, the Less Free You Are
- The Two-Party System Corrupts Institutions, Not Just Voters
- What Do Hierarchies Actually Select For?
- The System Asks What Wins, Never What Is Right
- Representative Government Forces Every Debate to the Wrong Altitude
- Learn to Disrespect What Cost You the Most to Learn
- The Structural Advantages of Being a Known Political Liar
- Why Word Documents Look Wrong in LibreOffice, and What Actually Helps
- Complaints About New Technology Are Always the Same Complaint
- The Two Traits That Make a Programmer Are Laziness and a Bad Memory
- Buchanan, Olson, and the Economic Case for Direct Democracy
- Minimum Wage Is to Economics What Gay Marriage Was to Culture
- Design the Process, Don't Write the Law
- Basic Software Is Turning Into Academia, and the Corporations Have Not Noticed
- Software Should Not Care Where It Was Installed
- Tests Are Build Products, and the Build System Should Own Them
- Ranking Humanity's Problems by Tractability, Not Severity
- Organizational Corruption Differs in Kind from Personal Corruption
- Oracle Bought Sun and Showed What It Thinks Open Source Is For
- Open Source Is Lucky to Have Microsoft Where It Is
- What Open Source Should Demand From Microsoft