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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
My rating: 3 of 5 stars How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler On the trail of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, very funny at moments. However, the play with footnotes that could be annoying (perhaps only on Kindle) and the fact that it ends on a cliffhanger take away some stars…
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We Must Act Now
A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy Source: We Must Act Now
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Hobbes’ Internet Timeline – the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
1969 Nodes are stood up as BBN builds each IMP [Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory]; AT&T provides lines bundled to 50kbps … 1982 DCA and ARPA establish the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, for ARPANET. (:vgc:) … 1991 World-Wide Web (WWW)…
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The Thief of Tales
A wonderful story told as a web comic. https://www.thethiefoftales.com
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AI Economics for Dummies – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The…