I was attacked by a wild boar once.

Luckily, the wild boar was a baby and was only about 8 inches tall.

Injuries, shall we say, were minimal.

Under the TPP, copyright violations will become a morally necessary act of rebellion rather than just something relatively harmless. Get your parrots and don your pirate hats, lads and lassies.

Clarissa writes accurately about the end of the nation-state. This is one of the necessary steps, designed to give corporations the same legal sovereignty as nation-states and to erase borders for companies (but not for individuals unless they are sponsored by a corporation).

The rich no longer have any interest in nations or their restrictions, and are working hard to eliminate them. This is a step in that process.

Why The World Is Getting Weirder.

Some terrible ideas combined with some amazing ones; very odd piece. I don’t feel like a full examination and exegesis, but his ideas about the easy problems being solved causing the long tail of bizarre ones to appear more prominent is a really perspicacious insight.

Like most efforts, 10% of the effort gets you 90% of what you need — and the remaining 10% takes up 90% of your time.

Why Intel added cache partitioning in Broadwell and how it can increase performance by 1.3x to 3x.

To people who think computers aren’t getting any faster just because Moore’s “Law” is sort-of dead: LOL.

Don’t be mislead by the press, and the tech press is in general no better than any other. Read the people actually working in the field to know what’s really going on.