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That feeling of freedom is amplified by our uncertainty about the future. Our survival depends to a large degree on the attempt to predict what happens next. An organism has a huge advantage if it more often guesses correctly. We can’t actually see future events, but we can make ourselves “see” them in the form of anticipation. Imagining more than one plausible future state allows us to compare them as if they were options. I can picture myself choosing strawberry ice cream as well as chocolate. The more options you can picture, the more freedom you appear to have.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
People's choices are subjective, and so there is no “right” and “wrong” choice of money. There are, however, consequences to choices.
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
The fact that PAGE_SIZE is declared in HourlyReporter represents a misplaced responsibility [G17] that causes HourlyReporter to assume that it knows what the page size ought to be. Such an assumption is a logical dependency. HourlyReporter depends on the fact that HourlyReportFormatter can deal with page sizes of 55. If some implementation of HourlyReportFormatter could not deal with such sizes, then there would be an error.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
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