Yes, it’s true that you may like strawberry ice cream more than chocolate, whereas I prefer chocolate. But that shouldn’t obscure the much bigger point: everybody likes ice cream more than they like gall-bladder surgery
If I go online and bet fifty dollars on the Bucks against the Celtics, I’m a criminal. But some gazillionaire firm in New York can legally bet against the United States of America in unlimited amounts in a trade that has nothing to do with anything but a guess about how many other people will make the same bet. Jesus, are we a weird country
I could write, "This morning, controversial foreign billionaire media boss Rupert Murdoch gave his cronies the go-ahead to chop down and mutilate hundreds of trees, pulverize the carcasses until they were rendered unrecognizable, and then order their underlings to fill the pages with propaganda for the business class, with any refusal to comply punished by the forfeiture of wages and access to health care." But that would be a fairly slanted way to describe the process of publishing a newspaper
The judge-umpire analogy has become an increasingly dominant paradigm to describe the role of the modern Supreme Court Justice. However, this analogy is flawed from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. The appropriate analogy for Supreme Court Justices is the Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Returning to our fundamental riddle: if this is the information age, what do our children know that our parents didn't? The answer is "now." They know about now
The question is how a youth translation of the bible should deal with the phrase translated "Verily I say unto you" in the Authorised Version. I feel that the modern demotic would be "no shit"
If time is infinite on both ends, then we have infinite rolls of the dice of probability. That means, however infinitesimally small the probabilities that brought “you” into existence, with enough rolls of dice, “you” will come into existence again, and again and again forever. And if time is infinite in reverse, “now” isn’t the only time “you” existed
Would a Lava Lamp work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter? Would the wax still rise to the surface? Would the blobs be smaller and faster? With broad disagreement on the answers, I built a large centrifuge to find out
Mark Andreessen, on paid content:
Talking about paywalls and paid apps is like saying, “We know where the market is and we are not going to go there”
Charlie Brooker on televised politics:
TV still fascinates and horrifies politicians in equal measure. They're attracted by its potential to hypnotise and pacify millions, but repelled by its laser-like ability to magnify physical flaws or tonal cock-ups. It's like a magic amulet that can sometimes control the masses, but also might explode in the user's hand at any time