In This Article Drone shopping can be a bit like car shopping today. Not everyone needs a sports car — some families need a van for soccer practice and others need a truck for work. Just as the original Ford Model T quickly transformed into a wide range of two-door, four-door, and convertible…

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F Fenn , 13.09.2023, 10:23 Uhr Vielen Dank für eure Beiträge. Wir haben die Kommentarfunktion geschlossen. Die Moderation A Ante 13.09.2023, 10:17 Uhr Eigentlich geht es im Artikel doch um etwas ganz anderes. Das populistische Gerede eines Söders, man könne AfDler zurückholen, ist Irrglaube. Viele…

by Ploum on 2023-08-01 There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks, optimises clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about…

Try listing every problem the Western world has at the moment. Along with Covid, you might include slow growth, climate change, poor health, financial instability, economic inequality, and falling fertility. These longer-term trends contribute to a sense of malaise that many of us feel about our…

New York’s nightclubs are the particle accelerators of sociology: reliably creating precise conditions under which exotic extremes of status-seeking behaviour can be observed. Ashley Mears, model turn

Your Looks and Your Inbox How men and women perceive attractiveness This week we will confront an unfortunate truth of online dating: no matter how much time you spend polishing your profile, honing y

It sounds like an absurd riddle, or perhaps a kindergarten-level math problem: the median male full-time worker earned $314 per week in 1979, while his counterpart at the median in 2018 earned $1,026; who was better off? In fact, the question proves fiendishly difficult, even as its answer lies at…

It’s a shame so few of us are taught the basics of how to interact constructively with each other. If you never were, we’re here to help. Credit...Evan Cohen By Jan. 23, 2020 Leer en español Unlike topics like math or science, social skills are more of a “learn on the job” kind of skill. When you’re…

Demokratie in Gefahr? Wieso es keinen Rechtsruck gibt, aber die extreme Rechte trotzdem wächst Ein Essay von Jonas Schaible Aktualisiert am 15.06.2019Lesedauer: 12 Min. Teilnehmer einer rechtsextremen Demonstration in Chemnitz: Eine neue Konfliktlinie teilt die westlichen Gesellschaften. (Quelle:…

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Demokratie in Gefahr? Wieso es keinen Rechtsruck gibt, aber die extreme Rechte trotzdem wächst Ein Essay von Jonas Schaible Aktualisiert am 15.06.2019Lesedauer: 12 Min. Teilnehmer einer rechtsextremen Demonstration in Chemnitz: Eine neue Konfliktlinie teilt die westlichen Gesellschaften. (Quelle:…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Member-only story Olivier Destrebecq 7 min read· Apr 12, 2018 -- About 8 weeks ago, I embarked on a new project. A brand new mobile app to be coded in React Native. I was excited to learn a new technology and my client (a French startup) was excited at…

Herr Mounk, Ihr Buch „Der Zerfall der Demokratie“ hat eine breite öffentliche Debatte ausgelöst. Ist die Lage wirklich so kritisch? Um unser politisches System zu verstehen, müssen wir zuerst einmal davon ausgehen, dass es sich dabei um eine liberale Demokratie handelt. Das bedeutet, dass wir…

In 2003, one year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard from the school’s intranet and asking users to rate their hotness. Obviously, it caused an outcry. The website’s developer quickly proffered an apology. "I hope you…

SZ: Frau Foroutan, vor wenigen Wochen haben Palästinenser auf Berliner Straßen israelische Fahne verbrannt. Sagen solche Akte etwas über eine mangelnde Integration aus? Naika Foroutan: Ja, das sagen sie. Genauso wie Attacken auf Geflüchtete und ihre Unterkünfte. In beiden Fällen hat keine…

WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us, the latest book from the influential conference organizer and Silicon Valley’s go-to technical publisher Tim O’Reilly, is a memoir/business text/techno-utopian polemic that gestures at a revolutionary future while endorsing existing Silicon Valley…

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A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: premium mediocre. The food, I opined to my wife,

With pre-orders open for the graphic novel collecting William Gibson's amazing comic book Archangel , and a linked novel on the way that ties the 2016 election to the world of The Peripheral , William

Über die letzten Jahre haben wir zahlreiche Unternehmen bei der Digitalen Transformation begleitet. Dabei war es häufig schon die erste Herausforderung, überhaupt ein gemeinsames Verständnis für die V

James Darling Mar 15, 2017 · 6 min read The title of this article is a phrase I’ve been saying in my professional life for quite some years now, and it feels like it’s become more relevant as time has

T hink about this for a moment: Why would you ever choose to be with someone who is not excited to be with you? There’s a grey area in dating many people get hung up on — a grey area where feelings ar

There is no higher God in Silicon Valley than growth. No sacrifice too big for its craving altar. As long as you keep your curve exponential, all your sins will be forgotten at the exit. It’s through

The easiest way to win votes these days is by selling the past. “ Nostalgic nationalism”, as my FT colleague Gideon Rachman writes, unites Brexit’s “Take Back Control”, Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and Vladimir Putin’s reassertion of Russian power. There’s only one viable…

Beyond Coding Style Guides by Marko Schulz January 26, 2018 I despise style guides. But what do I use instead? Read more » My experience at the Lambdaworld by Robert Hibbeler November 1, 2017 Thanks to Vaamo I had the privilege to visit the LambdaWorld in Cádiz this year and it was awesome. Read…

Idiocracy TC;DR I made a Tumblr that accidentally went viral. For a year or so I’d been collecting screengrabs of websites that obscure their content behind modal overlays, begging for newsletter signups, follows, likes, or even adverts that direct you to another site entirely. In the words of Brad…

Ganz Europa versetzte Jean-Marie Le Pen in Erstaunen, als er im April 2002 den sozialistischen Kandidaten Lionel Jospin in der ersten Runde der Präsidentschaftswahlen hinter sich ließ und in die Stichwahl einzog. Aus Angst vor einem Sieg der extremen Rechten unterstützte die Linke Amtsinhaber…

Brexit is not the salient fact of British politics. It is an expression of the salient fact of British politics, which is the age of most of the people living in the country. There has been considerable discussion of the generation gap, and the effect of the ‘babyboomers’, something which I have…

Interview «Wo es zu viele junge Männer gibt, wird getötet» Nicht Religionen oder Hunger sind die Ursachen für Kriege. Zu Gewalt komme es dort, wo es einen Überschuss an jungen Männern gebe, sagt der Völkermordforscher Gunnar Heinsohn. So gesehen bleiben die islamischen Länder auch ohne Islam noch…

“I put lipstick on a pig,” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, says. He feels “deep remorse.” Illustration by Javier Jaén Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald…

Maciej Cegłowski ist ein US-polnischer Software-Entwickler und Gründer des Social-Bookmarking-Services Pinboard . Der folgende Text basiert auf einem Vortrag Cegłowskis im Rahmen der diesjährigen Konferenz der Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) als Teilnehmer eines Panels zur…

There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion.” The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion afterward and you aren’t allowed to “argue” — only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions can…

Susana Vera / Reuters During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions. Those who saw through my disguise assumed I made up for my youth with a fabulous…

(Scott Audette/Reuters) A few weeks ago, following the Republican Iowa caucuses, I pointed out an eerie correlation in the voting data. It seems that Donald Trump performed the best in places where middle-aged whites are dying the fastest. That wasn't a fluke. The relationship between white…