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I didn't know what that word meant.
And that meant she knew she only had one shot at collecting her data.
Programming is a three-way relationship between a programmer, some source code, and the computer it's meant to run on, but computers are such famously inflexible interpreters of instructions that it's extraordinarily difficult to write out a set of instructions that the computer knows how to execute, and that's if one person is writing it.
Logic was equally wobbly, and this was because the hypergrowth of the organization meant that people, managers were getting promoted again and again and again.
I mean, it existed before, but it just meant somebody who presides over a meeting.
Andrew spent 16 years scavenging materials on the dump, earned enough money to turn himself into a contract scaler, which meant he carried a scale and went around and weighed all the materials that people had scavenged from the dump.
You know, so we were of course horrified, and said, Oh my God, no, that's not what we meant at all.
And I really understood what patient capital meant emotionally in the last month or so.
It became a question my entire life, and that's all right, because being good at math meant he bought me a computer, and some of you remember this computer, this was my first computer.
We evolved in a world where scarcity is dangerous, and abundance meant survival.
It's always reminded me of the Apollo image of the Earth, the blue marble picture, and it's similarly meant to suggest, I think, that we can't really understand it as a whole.
They looked for the unwired places, and that's meant North and South, primarily these cables to Africa.
And of course it meant that I was a foreigner in both countries, and that of course made it pretty easy for me to migrate as well, in good family tradition, if you like.
That meant that the culprits couldn't really be prosecuted for lots of reasons, mostly to do with the peace process and what was going on, the greater good.
It also meant, then, if you can imagine this, that the people who bombed your children and your husbands were walking around the supermarket that you lived in.
What they hadn't counted on was digitization, because that meant that all those paper receipts had been scanned in electronically, and it was very easy for somebody to just copy that entire database, put it on a disk, and then just saunter outside of Parliament, which they did, and then they shopped that disk to the highest bidder, which was the Daily Telegraph, and then, you all remember, there was weeks and weeks of revelations, everything from porn movies and bath plugs and new kitchens and mortgages that had never been paid off.
It also meant that the Belarussian dictator was given a handy list of all the pro-democracy campaigners in that country who had spoken to the U.S. government.
In Afghanistan, it could have meant instead of concentrating on the big presidential and parliamentary elections, we should have done what was in the Afghan constitution from the very beginning, which is to get direct local elections going at a district level and elect people's provincial governors.
And it was such a blow that it woke me up, in the way that it was meant to be, I guess.
And dictatorship meant that all the land was owned by a single ruler or by a small oligarch.
And dictatorship meant that too many of the machines became concentrated in the hands of the government or of a small elite.
He didn't so much appropriate it as kidnapped it and debased it and corrupted it and turned it into something it was never meant to be, and then persuaded all of us that it always was a global jihad.
He killed 3,000 innocent people, and that filled the Muslim world with horror and revulsion, and what that meant was that his idea of jihad could never become mainstream.
And that meant that journalists had to deal with fakes, so we had to deal with old photos that were being reposted.
I think these folks meant well, but had I taken them up on their offers, I would have been going beyond the science, and good scientists are careful not to do this.
So they concluded that because they saw activation in the insula, this meant the subjects loved their iPhones.
I read about a study recently of successful entrepreneurs, and the author found that these people shared a habit that he called "productive paranoia," which meant that these people, instead of dismissing their fears, these people read them closely, they studied them, and then they translated that fear into preparation and action.
Which is why that Ivy League degree and the Wall Street job and his bright shiny future meant so much to him.
Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant, and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.
I didn't know what it meant, but I could see that my father was very, very happy.
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