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"Se olvida que la adolescencia es al hombre lo que la Movida a España, un periodo histórico inexplicablemente sobrevalorado. Pero la nostalgia es un vicio consentido. Con ella se escriben poemas y en su nombre habrá quien eche de menos a Mourinho."
Cosas que podías hacer antes de los 30. Y ahora no (http://www.revistagq.com/articulos/cosas-que-podias-hacer-antes-de-los-30/18152)
"software skills are the most portable high-end skills on the planet. […] Stock option-slavery and golden handcuffs for talent from acquired companies aside, there’s not much you can do to combat social and economic mobility. Not only can software developers switch industries easily, they can even survive on their own much more easily."
The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/05/the-rise-of-developeronomics/
"You already have welcomed your robot overlords, and they’re building our financial system."
This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like - Smithsonian Mag (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/05/this-is-what-one-half-second-of-high-speed-trading-looks-like)
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the ultimate native ads are the glossy fashion ads in Vogue: in most cases, they’re better than the editorial, and as a result, readers spend as much time with the ads — if not more — as they do with the edit.
On the web, by contrast, the vast majority of ads are not native. Instead, they’re intrusive, annoying, unpleasant, and — in most cases — completely ignored
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The disruptive potential of native advertising | Felix Salmon (http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/04/09/the-disruptive-potential-of-native-advertising/)
"One October afternoon three years ago while I was visiting my parents, my mother made a request I dreaded and longed to fulfill. […] Her white hair was gathered at the nape of her neck, and her voice was low. “Please help me get Jeff’s pacemaker turned off,” she said, using my father’s first name. I nodded, and my heart knocked."
Katy Butler - What Broke My Father’s Heart (NYT)
Rapha Continental: Hidden Europe – Footprints
"what do we do about the fact that we’ve built a global economy on a system optimized for moving pictures of cats?"
Dan Kaminsky - I Tried Hacking Bitcoin And I Failed (Business Insider)
MLIW + Morrissey = perfection
Best news of the year
"Once upon a time there was a bearded God who made a small, flat earth, and pasted it in the very middle of the sky so that human beings would be at the centre of everything. Then physics came along and complicated the picture with big bangs, quarks , brains and superstrings, and the payoff for all that critical analysis is that now most people have no idea where they are."
Daniel Gilbert - Stumbling On Happiness
- Robin Quivers: "Are you one of those people who visualizes the muscle growing as you pump the iron and all that stuff?"
- Henry Rollins: "No, I just get in there, work real hard and leave"
Biting Elbows - ‘Bad Motherfucker’ (Insane Office Escape 2)
The best video you’re gonna watch this month. By far
"No decent human being would allow an animal to suffer without putting it out of its misery. It is only to human beings that human beings are so cruel as to allow them to live on in pain, in hopelessness, in living death, without moving a muscle to help them."
Isaac Asimov.
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