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what a bet really is: a decision about an uncertain future.
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
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“world’s forests have been a large and persistent carbon sink (storing more than they emit), locking away about 2.4 billion tons of carbon every year between 1990 and 2007, and satellite data for 2000–2017 indicate that one-third of the world’s vegetated area has been greening (showing a significant increase in the average annual green leaf area, confirming that more carbon is now absorbed and stored) and only 5 percent has been browning (showing significant loss of leaves).[”
― How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
― How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
“Apocalypse and singularity offer two absolutes: our future will have to lie somewhere within that all-encompassing range.”
― How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
― How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
“This may sound counterintuitive, but I deeply believe that the path to happiness in a relationship is not just about finding someone who you think is going to make you happy. Rather, the reverse is equally true: the path to happiness is about finding someone who you want to make happy, someone whose happiness is worth devoting yourself to.”
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand."
"So we're down to five days instead of five years."
"Wrong!" Kat says. "Because guess what--we have ten thousand friends. It's called"--she clicks a tab triumphantly and fat yellow letters appear on the screen--"Mechanical Turk. Instead of sending jobs to computers, like Hadoop, it sends jobs to real people. Lots of them. Mostly Estonians."
She commands King Hadoop and ten thousand Estonian footmen. She is unstoppable.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
"So we're down to five days instead of five years."
"Wrong!" Kat says. "Because guess what--we have ten thousand friends. It's called"--she clicks a tab triumphantly and fat yellow letters appear on the screen--"Mechanical Turk. Instead of sending jobs to computers, like Hadoop, it sends jobs to real people. Lots of them. Mostly Estonians."
She commands King Hadoop and ten thousand Estonian footmen. She is unstoppable.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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