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From Spartacus to Satoshi: A Brief History of Economic Rebellion
7.8.2019
Government dominance of human beings via slavery and violent economic oppression is as old as government itself. For thousands and thousands of years kings and rulers, usually held to be “appointed by God,” have used free, non-violent individuals as their tax farm livestock to exploit...
Worldwide Whiplash! Human Traffickers Misuse Bitcoin to Hide their Hideous Crime
30.7.2019
We live in a modern world, with technology taking over almost all the aspects of our lives. Technology offers growth, comfort, and efficiency. On the one hand, where the blockchain technology offers us so many revolutionary ways to outgrow our previous successes while the same potential gets...
Privacy Is a Human Right Worth Fighting For
23.7.2019
Privacy is a basic human right. It’s there in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence.” Attaining that right in an era of dragnet surveillance, mass data breaches, state-sponsored hacks...
Flowery V20 Talk and Government Terror: Why Darknet Crime Is the Least of Our Worries
1.7.2019
Governments and central banking regulatory bodies continue to express concern about crypto being used for criminal purposes and terror. The terror campaigns of these very same governments continue unabated, however. In the wake of the V20 summit it might seem that lawmakers actually care about...
Why Bitcoiners Are Turning to Unschooling for Decentralized Education
29.6.2019
Unschooling is an alternative education movement quickly gaining popularity and currency worldwide. Like Bitcoin, it is an individualist approach to an area of human action long thought to be established beyond question―education. Both cryptoeconomics and unschooling seek to provide autonomy...
Privacy Is Paramount: How KYC Makes Us All Less Free
19.6.2019
KYC (Know Your Customer) policies and endless private data collection, coupled with force-backed, violent legislation compromise the utility and ethics of crypto trading. An uncompromising stance on user privacy is critically important to crypto traders and peer-to-peer transaction. It’s...
Drawing Realistic Clouds with SVG and CSS
13.6.2019
Greek mythology tells the story of Zeus creating the cloud nymph, Nephele. Like other Greek myths, this tale gets pretty bizarre and X-rated. Here’s a very abridged, polite version.
Nephele, we are told, was created by Zeus in the image of his own beautiful wife. A mortal meets Nephele, falls...
A Quick Look at the First Public Working Draft for Color Adjust Module 1
29.5.2019
We've been talking a lot about Dark Mode around here ever since Apple released it as a system setting in MacOS 10.14 and subsequently as part of Safari. It's interesting because of both what it opens up as as far as design opportunities as well as tailoring user experience based on actual user...
Our Value of Money Is Subjective But That Doesn’t Make It Meaningless
14.5.2019
In my last op-ed, I discussed how the value we place on items and goods is subjective based on Carl Menger’s Subjective Theory of Value and how these concepts apply to people’s perception of value with things like fiat, gold, and bitcoin. The post outlined the idea that money cannot...
Blockchain’s Adoption Challenge Is a Human Problem, Not Technical
12.5.2019
The “blockchain” concept has the potential to be extremely powerful, but only if society is willing to change direction and purpose, argues Maja Vujinovic
[aktualita] Goertzel, Mikolov nebo Rosa. Podívejte se na přednášky z Human-Level AI
23.3.2019
Loni v létě v Praze proběhla jedna tuzemských a zároveň mezinárodních akcí zaměřených na umělou inteligenci. Human-Level AI Conference je pořádaná pražskou společností GoodAI a podobně jako tato firma se zaměřuje na takzvanou obecnou AI. Pořadatelé nyní na YouTube zveřejnili kompletní záznam...
WDRL — Edition 253: Welcome back to a new year with Jank-Free Images, Styled Web Components, Human Branding and Code-Splitting
11.1.2019
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I’m happy to be back with a new edition of my Web Development Reading List in 2019. I’m grateful for all your ongoing givings to support my work and it makes me happy to hear that so many people find this resource very helpful. So if you enjoy reading it, share it with people you know, give...
The 10,000 Year Clock Design Principals
8.1.2019
In the new year edition of the Clearleft newsletter, Jeremy Keith linked to the design principals Danny Hillis thought about while considering a clock that would work for 10,000 years.
Here's part of that page, satisfyingly displayed as a <dl>:
Longevity:
Go slow
Avoid sliding friction...
WDRL — Edition 246: Custom Elements News, React lazy Method, The `prefers-color-scheme` Media Query And Human Customer Support
26.10.2018
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The web is fascinating. Just when you think there’s not much news happening right now you’re proved wrong. This week brings massive news for how we can work with Custom Elements given the very good fresh support in Firefox (along with Chrome which has support since a while already) and some...
Jaká je budoucnost umělé inteligence? Praha bude hostit světovou konferenci
18.7.2018
Zjistěte, proč Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Uber a mnoho dalších investují do umělé inteligence (AI) a jak může AI ovlivnit váš život a zlepšit váš byznys. Mezinárodní konference Human-Level Artificial Intelligence (HLAI 2018), věnovaná výzkumu umělé inteligence (AI) na úrovni člověka, se poprvé...
Vzpoura androidů ve hře Detroit: Become Human
29.5.2018
Mohou stroje cítit? Mohou milovat? Věčná otázka řady spisovatelů a filozofů. Na tuto otázku se snaží svým kouskem odpovědět i nový titul od studia Quantic Dream – Detroit: Become Human. Ten posouvá hranici jak digitálních herců, tak i počtu možností, kolik lze v takto filmově vyprávěných hrách...
WDRL — Edition 221: Adobe XD Opens Sketch/PSD, Variable Fonts in Edge, Human Memory Design, And Knockout Text
16.3.2018
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This week I read an article that since then is stuck in my head with these words: “When we develop a new application, when we post content on the Internet, whatever we do that people will have access to, we should consider just for a minute if our contribution will add up to the level...
Crypto God or Just a Human? Find Out How Much You Know About Crypto
23.2.2018
You think you know everything about crypto? Time to check how much
[aktualita] Konference Human Level AI: Do Prahy dorazí výzkumnící AI z Uberu, DeepMind či Facebooku
22.2.2018
Karlínská společnost GoodAI letos v Praze uspořádá mezinárodní konferenci zaměřenou na umělou inteligenci. Akce nazvaná Human Level AI proběhne od 22. do 25. srpna 2018 a mezi sponzory má například Facebook nebo Microsoft. Na konferenci dorazí několik zajímavých jmen, které se AI věnují. Jsou mezi...