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Reed’s Law: The utility of large networks, particularly social networks, scales
exponentially with the size of the network.
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-Premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Donald Knuth
+We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
+premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up
+our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be
+lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look
+carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been
+identified. — Donald Knuth, Structured Programming with Go To Statements
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The Pareto Principle: Most things in life are not distributed evenly.
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@@ -2535,8 +2540,8 @@ PeerTube: A free and open-source decentralized self-hosted federated video platf
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Mastodon: A free and open-source self-hosted social networking service.
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-The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.
-― Jeff Hammerbacher
+The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people
+click ads. That sucks. ― Jeff Hammerbacher
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We can’t both be right.
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@@ -3257,3 +3262,75 @@ NP: Non—deterministic Polynomial Time.
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Dead Internet Theory: All content on the Internet will eventually be
generated by bots with artificial intelligence.
+%
+The bit will flip.
+%
+The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence
+that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce
+them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master;
+whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An
+individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which
+the wind stirs up at will. — Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the
+Popular Mind
+%
+Vote for Nobody.
+Nobody will keep election promises.
+Nobody will listen to your concerns.
+Nobody will help the poor and unemployed.
+Nobody cares!
+Nobody tells the truth.
+If Nobody is elected, things will be better for everyone.
+— A mural in Guelph, Ontario
+%
+Join our community to see this answer!
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+Yama: becoming mindful.
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+You must update now.
+%
+Update now to send and receive messages.
+%
+Just World Fallacy: A flawed belief that the world
+is fair and just.
+%
+Are we the bad guys?
+%
+The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
+%
+One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind.
+%
+You will soon forget this.
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+It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice.
+%
+The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well
+to his going. — Proverbs
+%
+All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
+— Susan Sontag
+%
+As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
+%
+Don’t confuse things that need action with those that take care of themselves.
+%
+A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
+in students. — John Ciardi
+%
+The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us
+nothing. — Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog)
+%
+Adding features does not necessarily increase functionality — it just
+makes the manuals thicker.
+%
+The only thing humans are equal in is death. — Johan Liebert,
+Naoki Urasawa’s Monster
+%
+No two persons ever read the same book. — Edmund Wilson
+%
+You have mail.
+%
+Human Nature: A walking contradiction.
+%
+No skin in this game.
+%
+Nothing ventured, nothing gained.