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“There is “market failure” when markets can’t be expected to provide goods efficiently; there’s “government failure” when government can’t be expected to solve market failures efficiently; and there’s “libertarian failure” when the push to do nothing will produce not no regulation at all, but regulation by the most powerful of special interests.” — Code 2.0 - Lawrence Lessig
“hacking is fundamentally about refusing to be intimidated or cowed into submission by any technology, about understanding the technology and acquiring the power to repurpose it to our individual needs, and for the good of the many” — New York Times, Peter Ludlow, Professor of philosophy at Northwestern University
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From the edge of Finland - Photography
Fascinating contrast between how the Chinese vs. the Greeks viewed the same sky. Teach yourself naked-eye astronomy here.
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Beautiful Icelandic volcanic river photography
“In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” —
(Source: lettersofnote.com)
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“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction. — WILLIAM JAMES”