Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 26th/27th October 2024
The United Nations is pointless, toothless and morally corrupt by Douglas Murray
“In the same way that Tim Walz cannot answer a question on the economy without talking about the house in which he grew up in, so Lammy believes that there is no issue of international politics that cannot be brought back to his favorite, chosen specialized subject: himself …”
Foundations by ben Southwood, Samuel Hughes and Sam Bowman
“These are not just disconnected observations. They highlight the most important economic fact about modern Britain: that it is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere. This prevents investment, increases energy costs, and makes it harder for productive economic clusters to expand. This, in turn, lowers our productivity, incomes, and tax revenues …”
The Friendship That Made Google Huge by James Somers
“ makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. In October, its core systems, which crawled the Web to build an “index” of it, had stopped working. Although users could still type in queries at google.com, the results they received were five months out of date. More was at stake than the engineers realized. Google’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were negotiating a deal to power a search engine for Yahoo, and they’d promised to deliver an index ten times bigger than the one they had at the time—one capable of keeping up with the World Wide Web, which had doubled in size the previous year. If they failed, google.com would remain a time capsule, the Yahoo deal would likely collapse, and the company would risk burning through its funding into oblivion …”
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