Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Wiggins Is Spot On
Riffing on a Taleb-esque point regarding how emulation will only get you so far: Think of it this way: in any sufficiently complex system, there will not be any universally dominant strategies. Therefore, there will not be any rote formula … Continue reading
Stack Exchange As A Service
Joel Spolsky’s looking for a way to monetize a garden of Stack Exchange’s for a variety of topics ranging form law to whatever. The way this works: You create a proposal, You get people to vote on which proposals are … Continue reading
On Stephen Watt’s Incarceration
This is insane. Watt spent 10 hours coding a packet sniffer for the guy who went on to conduct the largest identity theft in human history. For free. Now he’s in jail for two years. Prosecutors don’t dispute Watt’s claim … Continue reading
Zarate Gets The Times Square Bomber
Juan Zarate, President George W. Bush’s former deputy national security adviser, agreed that the Times Square attack may mark a new chapter in the terrorist threat. “The model may be shifting here, in part because they may have made a … Continue reading
James Fallows on TSA-style linearity
He’s thinking about what the response would look like if the TSA were in charge instead of NYPD. He arrives at the same conclusions I did after the December attempt: All vans or SUVs headed into Midtown Manhattan would have … Continue reading