The Daily Fail

Someday you check back on things, and they've failed. Oh, no. Well, so you aren't alone. Or well, you only don't fail "if you don't innovate" ;)

A few silent fails in 2018

Puli Space

"It is official now, what we expected: the Google Lunar XPRIZE ends without a winner."

Well, in a way the whole competition failed.

"But this does not mean at all that it failed: in the contrary, it fulfilled the promise of catalyzing the process of the birth of a cislunar economy."

Another good silent fail:

Jibo

sad sh..ooot, although there simply were bigger names in the game I suppose.

I guess though it could be as interesting to crash analyse these as getting into the details of very successful pathways. The exceptional few. The lucky few... the random few?

Question of whether to place our bets on working out what not to do or what to do. Both are likely useful, whilst perhaps the world's attention is a bit "stratified". Well, I suppose it mostly is.

Update:

MySpace

... has carefully lost about 13 years of uploads ..

... please continue :)

"Usury"

Just reading about medieval finance - "due to the prohibition on usury imposed by the Roman Catholic Church".
Hm, forgot about that bit, I typically find it to be difficult for me to even try to force my mind to be pro-catholicism these days... and yet, I guess that was a nice thing then (except if an attempt towards monopoly - remember the alleged very successful banking activities of the templars - up till and I guess possibly ending around Montsegur "lol")?

Not necessarily, idelogoism and wise thinking ... eh, not necessarily the same:
"The first of the scholastic Christian theologians, Saint Anselm of Canterbury, led the shift in thought that labeled charging interest the same as theft. Previously usury had been seen as a lack of charity." (Wikipedia)

And then the end:

"The Roman Catholic Church has always condemned usury, but in modern times, with the rise of capitalism and the disestablishment of the Catholic Church in majority Catholic countries, this prohibition on usury has not been enforced." (Wikipedia)

Okay then ... kind of the "I was wrong in saying 0 but I'd rather be silent and unenforcing than to admit it" is also a practice that I'm not the only one to apply... and maybe not so wrong, given people are mostly like gas, and will try to fill and expand any limits, as well as bend any sort of rules given enough time. So even an enforced zero isn't zero in practice.

Note that in case of a strengthening currency, no interest is profit too :) So typocal.

A lightweight dark PDF viewer for Ubuntu

Simple

sudo apt install xpdf 
alias xpdf='xpdf -rv' 

Then use xpdf to open the files.

Areas with more Interest in Python

Just one chart about the adoption rate of new technology