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With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.

We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.

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- The Pirate Bay - The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site (via iamdanw)

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And apparently disconnected from Jeff’s talk, this talk by Bret Victor also speaks of motive and purpose, which in the end is the same quest of happiness.

It also demoes some very cool code editing tools that are sadly unnamed. 

TEDxCambridge - Jeff Lieberman on science and spirituality (by TEDxTalks).

Always inspiring to see Jeff and look at how far he’s gotten into his quest for spirituality.

Just got an email cutting the most critical paragraph of an article I wrote. “We have no space” they said. It is a blog. #bonkers #chickens

Our #cascadacocacola is on @FastCoDesign! http://t.co/CEM3Omyh cc @quayola @memotv @nexuslondon

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From the series “medieval @quayola” http://t.co/ru79QzfF

"Economists essentially have a sophisticated lack of understanding of economics, especially macroeconomics. I know it sounds ridiculous. But the reason why I tell people they should study economics is not so they’ll know something at the end—because I don’t think we know much—but because we’re good at thinking. Economics teaches you to think things through. What you see a lot of times in economics is disdain for other’s lack of thinking. You have to think about the ramifications of policies in the short run, the medium run, and the long run. Economists think they’re good at doing that, but they’re good at doing that in the sense that they can write down a model that will help them think about it—not in terms of empirically knowing what the answers are. And we have gotten so enamored of thinking things through that the fact that we don’t know anything needs to bother us more. So, yes, it’s true that the average guy on the street doesn’t understand economics, and it’s also true that we don’t understand economics. We just have a more sophisticated lack of understanding than the guy on the street."

- Culture in Economics and the Culture of Economics (via azspot)

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Team removing the bridge. #quito http://t.co/WiGX3xai

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