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Synchronization isn’t everything, but when it’s off, well… you can complete the sentence yourself. Just think about something as familiar as walking or driving… and what happens when the innate and intuitive sense of synchrony...

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We are inclined to believe that two things named the same things are the same thing. An apple is an apple. Frosted Flakes are … those. It’s never really been true, but it’s never been less true than it is now, because all of the products and services...

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Privacy, that is to say the un-otherwise-observed relations with one’s own mind (via information intake and creation) and the minds of others (via actually technologically and observationally private exchanges) is absolutely fundamental to the possibilities of...

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“It would be convenient or untrue to call it humility or even modesty.” — infraheard

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The Squirrel: Look, you fed me two peanuts. This implies that you actually want to give me all the peanuts, no matter what the risk involved. I will climb your leg, invade your clothes, and ignore all your protestations to degrees otherwise unthinkable. This...