the reason the string KXTNJQXTARWOYE is less memorable than the string IBMCIANBCDARPA is that it cannot be broken into known strings.

The true value of books emerged from the community they made possible, an intellectual community that is still alive all over the world.

Gwern Branwen’s webpages are truly interlinked. Each page is a (often very sophisticated) narrative interface to a large chunk of the rest of the site.

he called for the very next year in 1963 was an intergalactic network.

A final but crucial pillar of Bitcoin's brand is its protocol characteristics

These narratives often conflict with one another, but each contributes to Bitcoin's overall brand presence

f a mechanism has fifty parameters that interact in complicated ways, then it’s likely that for any desired outcome you can find parameters that will achieve that outcome. But if a mechanism has only one or two parameters, this is much more difficult. You can create privilege for very broad groups (“demagogues”, “the rich”, etc) but you cannot target a narrow group of people, and your ability to target specific outcomes goes down further with time, as there is more and more of a “veil of ignorance” between you at time A that is creating the mechanism and your beneficiaries at time B and the specific situation they will be in that might let them disproportionately benefit from the mechanism.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important functions squads can perform without thinking.

Ithkuil requires a speaker to home in on the exact idea he means to express, and attempts to remove any possibility for vagueness.

Because people are friends, because they usually share the same values and orientations, because they talk to each other socially and consult with each other when common decisions have to be made, the people involved in these networks have more power in the group than those who don't.

These friendship groups function as networks of communication outside any regular channels for such communication that may have been set up by a group.

We cannot decide whether to have a structured or structureless group, only whether or not to have a formally structured one.

In other words, a person identifies himself with them

An opinion is an assumption.

The significance for agathonic design is that autopoietic (living) systems perceive interactions, and store a representation of the historical interaction event. Agathonic (non-living) systems store the actual history of the interaction event within the design object. The objects do not require a nervous system, a brain, or a computer, and they are not subject to potential impreciseness of bias or loss of memory.

Politics, on the other hand, is a sort of sub-atomic or non-Euclidean word where it is quite easy for the part to be greater than the whole or for two objects to be in the same place simultaneously. Hence the contradictions and absurdities I have chronicled above, all finally traceable to a secret belief that one's political opinions, unlike the weekly budget, will not have to be tested against solid reality

...problem is combining WYSIWIG with Markdown: that can't ever work well, you need a small toggle to let users choose toggle/choose between WYSIWIG (default) and Markdown, and have it remember the last setting the user used.Best for new users and advanced ones.If you have BOTH in one editor it's like you've built some kind of Vim-like UI that randomly jumps between modes, it will confuse the shit out of everybody all the time!

Please change "Adrianna Salvatierra" as acting president to "Jeanine Áñez". I don't understand why this keeps getting reverted. Coming from a Bolivian user myself who literally just made an account to edit this - Adrianna Salvatierra resigned on November 10th, thus discluding her from the presidential line of succession. Since the vice-president, president of the Senate (Salvatierra), and the first vice-president of the Senate have resigned too, Jean Áñez (the second vice-president the Senate of Bolivia) is next in line. SpicyCheese (talk) 8:12 am, Yesterday (UTC−8) ^ Bolivia Sets Date For Referendum On Evo Morales Re-election Telesurv, 15 October 2015

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"Desert Island Disks,"

Brand–name Internet companies belong to the first type of communities, mainly involved in the provision of information services and resources. They are not specialized in the production of collective goods and the interaction of their members is not their principal concern

Dat URLs are similar to web URLs but with an important difference. Web URLs typically point to a server, which can go offline or disappear. Dat URLs point to a piece of content, regardless of where it is hosted