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10381.
by api 8y ago
That podcast is great. Should also be required listening for anyone who does any kind of investment. One reason people keep falling for the same scams over and over is that they think they're too smart to fall for a scam.
10382.
by api 8y ago
We are entering a period where nothing not directly sampled by one's five senses can be trusted. Any electronically recorded evidence can easily be faked and often using off the shelf consumer-grade equipment and software.
10383.
by api 8y ago
Even more important is the nature of PCs vs mobile devices. The mobile platform is designed to commoditize the user and create a stark division between users on one side and content and software creators on the other. You can't easily
10384.
by api 8y ago
One of these is not like the others. Snowden and Manning seem genuine. Assange may have been genuine once but it's quite clear that in recent years he was either compromised, turned, or himself adopted some kind of rather loathsome fas
10385.
by api 8y ago
Elon didn't start that Twitter spat, but he shouldn't have gotten involved. Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. When a good person gets into it with a troll it's usually the good person who come
10386.
by api 8y ago
I've seen this too but not from just one trip. I've seen heavy users kind of never come back. I suspect your friend had latent psychotic tendencies. Would be interesting to look at family history. These are powerful drugs that see
10387.
by api 8y ago
That's great. A simpler way of explaining it is that sophistication tends to follow a U-shaped curve: initial complexity for the early adopter set, simplification for mass adoption, then a different kind of sophistication as the masses
10388.
by api 8y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine. I've been a developer and sysadmin since the early 90s. I know how to do almost any sysadmin-type task on every platform, even exotic embedded stuff and niche OSes. These days if something takes me longer t
10389.
by api 8y ago
The most popular videos on YouTube and the most clicked articles on the web are generally those that complain, troll, mock, criticize, or fear-monger. Humans seem to be biased toward paying attention to criticism and negativity. Maybe it ha
10390.
by api 8y ago
You're making an assumption-- namely that federated or decentralized systems must be harder to use than centralized ones. Present decentralized alternatives usually are. There are numerous reasons. Some have to do with unsolved or in
10391.
by api 8y ago
Nature obviously agrees. Look at the structure of the genome with all its gene duplication with minor variation. Copy-paste-hack is one of the primary mechanisms of evolution.
10392.
by api 8y ago
This will get flagged, but it's a decent article. I've thought for a while that Trump is not Putin's puppet but rather a Putin wannabe. He's too egotistical to be anyone's puppet. His goal is to become America'
10393.
by api 8y ago
It increases security against ISP surveillance, local attacks (DNS poisoning, man in the middle) performed by adversaries on your local network, hostile access points and other public honey pot attacks, and general eavesdropping anywhere be
10394.
by api 8y ago
Off topic but: birth control is OTC in Saudi Arabia? That busts a stereotype.
10395.
by api 8y ago
The inequality problem is much more complex than "government vs. capitalism." It's more like "the managerial class is taking too much rent." The managerial class includes the higher ranking bureaucratic class in gov
10396.
by api 8y ago
If something isn't done, the next populist demagogue will make Trump look like a kitten.
10397.
by api 8y ago
That's a terrifying map -- the vast majority of the USA is red as in "negative net savings on average."
10398.
by api 8y ago
The USA could be a developing nation too. We should be building our first settlements on the Moon and Mars right now, eliminating biological limitations like aging and various sources of heritable inequality, sending our first probes to nea
10399.
by api 8y ago
Umm... sooo... Alzheimers might be viral ? Or is it just common mechanisms that might be at work?
10400.
by api 8y ago
How about lightweight threads, or are they there already? Going to Go with its LWT goroutines was awesome. Would never want to go back to async, which is really just a manual way of implementing LWT.
10401.
by api 8y ago
I think the quote is along the lines of people tending to overestimate progress in the next 5 years but underestimate it in the next 25. However they also get it wrong. It's hard to predict. Others in the thread have pointed out Asimov
10402.
by api 8y ago
Is it in the developing world? Mobile is very limited due to small devices and more importantly crippled by design OSes. I've thought for a while that mobile's adoption in the developing world would be a gateway drug for computing
10403.
by api 8y ago
It's the same ideas. That's my point. These are right wing ideas regardless of their labeling.
10404.
by api 8y ago
Two really: (1) Group identity (race, religion, culture) superseding individual identity. (2) The idea that knowledge and even fact can be culturally relative or in its softer form the idea that it's impossible to think objectively abo
10405.
by api 8y ago
After promoting a core tenet of fascism for 50 years, the academic left is now shocked and surprised to see a resurgence of fascism. A core tenet of liberalism is that we are all human. We are what we have in common, not our differences, an
10406.
by api 8y ago
That doesn't provide a click bait headline.
10407.
by api 8y ago
Wow. I thought I was nuts for noticing this pattern. I have seen it when criticizing various nation states, politicians, and other corporations both here and on Reddit. I guess current generation bots are dumb and have no time delay.
10408.
by api 8y ago
Also: did therapy cause these apparently increases in negative characteristics or unmask them? It's possible that after therapy people were less in denial about their actual feelings. Overall it seems like a fairly shallow study, thoug
10409.
by api 8y ago
I've heard repeatedly that in some cases Bitcoin is mined at a loss. This can be done to get money out of countries with capital controls or to launder money. They don't mind taking a haircut... it's the cost of doing busines
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by api 8y ago
This is something concrete we could push for to fix California's housing crisis. Something like this at the state level would go a long way toward making it easier to build efficiently so that supply can increase to match demand.

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