Having a degree does not make you smart. “Caldwell toured the country. He met the leadership and learned about their policies firsthand. But the climax of his trip was the last evening — a private audience with Pol Pot himself.… Read More »Intellectuals are F*cking Idiots
Russians have a history of miscalculation. “The North saw this as the South drifting apart, both as a separate country and into capitalism. They didn’t want that. And now that the Americans had left, Korea was defenseless. Kim Il Sung… Read More »Why Did Korea Split?
This is exactly what AI CEOs sound to me.
Information rules. “The clergy was generally educated. They knew, among other things, the local vernacular, latin, and could read. Since the commoners didn’t speak Latin anymore, they couldn’t read the Bible directly, so the clergy became gatekeepers of the relationship… Read More »Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States
Search currents matter. “And this is why sushi is the most Japanese type of food. It’s where rice meets fish: the rice from the continent, migrating from south to north through the islands, and increasing the population through rice farming… Read More »Why Is Japan So Populated Despite So Little Land?
This is crazy. “Tokyo contains 30% of Japan’s population, yet it has been the capital of Japan for less than 200 years, and had just ~60k people around 1600! Yet by 1700, it might already have been the biggest city… Read More »How Earthquakes Made the Biggest City in the World
Just don’t watch shit you do not know the source of.
Willpower matters.
Nice explainer.
Yes they did. “despite having found literally thousands of new vulnerabilities (only a fraction of which were reported to Open Source projects, by the way), I don’t think that we’re any safer than before. That’s because finding vulnerabilities has never… Read More »Everybody’s Lost Their Minds