Schlagwort: Analogie

Abo[lit/rt]ion.

How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion — mandatory 48-hr waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he’s about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence, an ultrasound wand up the ass (just because).

Let’s close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun.

It makes more sense to do this with young men and guns than with women and health care, right? I mean, no woman getting an abortion has killed a room full of people in seconds, right?

someone

Keep the box running.

I/O actions are like boxes with little feet that go out and fetch some value from the outside world for us.

Miran Lipovača: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Functors, Applicative Functors and Monoids

DarkCity.

Man stelle sich vor, nach Schließung des letzten Opelwerkes würden alle jemals produzierten Fahrzeuge dieser Marke nicht mehr fahren können, weil die Zündung zum Schutz vor unerlaubtem Weiterverkauf des Fahrzeugs einer Synchronisation mit einem Rüsselsheimer Server bedarf, der dann leider nicht mehr existiert.

Daniel Kretschmar / taz

Turn it up.

This is like turning down the volume on your radio so as not to hear the bad news. You will not hear much good news either.

This is like censoring the news: you hear things loud and clear, but they may not be so interesting.

Johan van Benthem: What one may come to know

Naturartificial Limits.

Ähnlich wie der Preis einer Prozessorstunde bei AWS die Obergrenze für den Bitcoin-Kurs bestimmt, so bietet der minimale übliche Stundenlohn einen Richtwert wie viel abschreckende Bürokratie ein Wohlfahrtsstaat benötigt um finanzierbar zu bleiben.