daily-all 11/23/2013

• http://rhinohide.org/co2/models/tools/openmpi/doc/raspberrypi-openmpi.txt

  "wget http://rpi.descartes.co.uk/sim-emu/RaspberryPi.VirtualBox.zip"

  tags: raspberry pi virtualbox image gen

• Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler

  tags: technology future past to-read visionary

  • conceptual revolutions
  • writing endless annotations of French theory from the seventies, despite the guilty awareness that if new incarnations of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, or Pierre Bourdieu were to appear in the academy today, we would deny them tenure.
  • we have no place for our eccentric, brilliant, and impractical citizens. Most languish in their mothers’ basements, at best making the occasional, acute intervention on the Internet.
  • you cannot follow your curiosity
  • But if you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell those same people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.
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