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lastmod: "2022-08-21T11:10:44.0000000+01:00"
author: patrick
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- stumbled_across
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date: "2013-08-11T00:00:00Z"
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- /stumbled_across/stumbled-across-11th-august-2013/
- /stumbled-across-11th-august-2013/
title: Stumbled across 11th August 2013
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*   A thousand times this (EDIT 2022: the link is dead and I have no idea what I was referring to).
*   A possible fix for the "[economic problem][1] of democracy": <https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html>
*   A fascinating look at privacy online, how we're not built for privacy, and how tribal cultures attain privacy: <https://aeon.co/essays/facebook-s-privacy-settings-aren-t-the-problem-ours-are/>
*   I'm all for healthy competition and so forth, but do we really want such massive phones? <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/the-smallest-new-android-phone-you-can-buy-isnt-small-at-all/>
*   This is the kind of thing that I never quite have the courage or the morals to do: <http://web.archive.org/web/20130809202515/http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/A-Russian-Bank-Is-Sued-for/8/7/2013/id/51205>
*   This is an excellent summary for why I'm trying to find a good Gmail replacement: <https://ar.al/notes/schnail-mail-free-real-mail-for-life/>
*   A guide for dealing with introverts (not that many of my friends need it - perhaps that's why they're my friends): <http://laughingsquid.com/how-to-live-with-introverts/>
*   I didn't know this was such a wide-spread problem: <http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/>
*   I agree with this article on the state of maths teaching entirely - I had some excellent teachers, but I could see from the textbooks how it was designed to be taught: <http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mnewman/LockhartsLament.pdf>
*   How is it that Scandinavia manages to be so nice all the time?! <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23655675>

 [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_democracy#Economic_criticisms