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Our Willingness To Suffer For The Sake Of The Perception Of Freedom Is Remarkable.

The Most Effective Young Facebook Users, However -- The Ones Who Will Probably Be Winners If Facebook Turns Out To Be A Model Of The Future They Will Inhabit As Adults -- Are The Ones Who Create Successful Online Fictions About Themselves.

A Fashionable Idea In Technical Circles Is That Quantity Not Only Turns Into Quality At Some Extreme Of Scale, But Also Does So According To Principles We Already Understand. Some Of My Colleagues Think A Million, Or Perhaps A Billion, Fragmentary Insults Will Eventually Yield Wisdom That Surpasses That Of Any Well-thought-out Essay, So Long As Sophisticated Secret Statistical Algorithms Recombine The Fragments. I Disagree. A Trope From The Early Days Of Computer Science Comes To Mind: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

A Digital Sound Sample In Angry Rap Doesn't Correspond To The Graffiti But The Wall.

Of All The Things You Can Spend A Lot Of Money On, The Only Things You Expect To Fail Frequently Are Software And Medicine.