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So, curated lists? I like the idea, and the execution, but not sure what it has to do with my local bookstores. Perhaps the next evolution of bookstores (particularly since this is linking to Amazon )? One suggestion: for topics that hav
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Why does the downlink operator have what appears to be Github open? He seems to be carefully monitoring it. Is raw data going straight to Github?
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Journal of Controversial Ideas(journalofcontroversialideas.org)
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Reminds me of the so-called "10th man rule" made famous in World War Z. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2eaqp8/whats...
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Fair enough -- I was really trying to say that I think album art needs a reconceptualization, starting with the manner in which it's delivered to the listener. In an abstract sense, the association of visual art with music, is, of cour
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Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021. I couldn't care less what the album art looks like when listening to music on Spotify or YouTube. What I do care about is a current "About" tab in Spotify, a Wi
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Much like claims about morality, the claim of the religious to be the only glue that can hold communities together is an obviously false claim that the religious get to make with a straight face because of the moment in history that we live
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While I agree that there is something important to be said for maintaining a sense of community, it obviously does not require any kind of supernatural belief to do so. I would argue that the cost paid by society due to the institutionalize
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See also: > “Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Don’t be embarrassed about the bad bits. Don’t strain at them,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author wrote to himself.
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42: The wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams(kickstarter.com)
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While I applaud the effort to come up with new business models for the internet because of my distaste for advertising, this still misses the crucial detail. Virtually of the free "content" out there is only ever consumed because
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This is why: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/7/15/21325708/twitte... See also: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/csss/assets/10957%E2%80%A2twitterconfl... https://
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I'm not saying there should be no auto-renew, only that it should be opt-in. Auto-renew as an available option makes all kinds of sense.
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There should be a federal law against auto-renew by default. Whenever possible, I try to avoid doing business with companies that do this (which are many). The worst dark pattern, IMHO.
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Easy way to implement this: https://privacy.com/
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Covid-19 and Acedia(schneier.com)
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https://plainoldrecipe.com/
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Or alternatively, that the federal government, as it currently operates, is simply no longer up to the task of modern governance. Too slow, too reliant on voluntary compliance, and most importantly, too difficult to make decisions with long
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Put another way, if your code is very difficult or complicated to unit test, you've probably abandoned best practices for the language you're writing in somewhere along the way, in the name of expediency.
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I like to think of tests and the team's emotional relationship to them as a barometer of the extent to which the repo is and has consistently followed best practices in the language. IOW, enforcing unit and functional testing forces d
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That narrative is not expressed in the post here: https://slatestarcodex.com/ Where does your account come from? If I had to infer what happened from SA's post, it is that he agreed to an interview, did the interview,
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SA was being interviewed for an article -- was this detail not discussed beforehand? Did the NYT violate an informal agreement not to use his real name? Could SA have reasonably expected that a reporter would not trivially find his real n
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Those hucksters should be worried about the Supreme Court swatting away their business model, because that's where I see this headed.
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To my ears, Brett talks with the cadence of a man who believes that the thing he's going to say in the following sentence is profound. It might be unintentional on his part, but that's what I hear. Tone and cadence matter in aud
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TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally(nytimes.com)
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TL;DR please. These brothers are smart and often interesting but they are also both audibly quite taken with their own brilliance and often not what I want to listen to.
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Jetbrains IDEs have been mentioned already, but I'll add a specific feature of Jetbrains IDEs, the Productivity Guide[0]. This contains a list of keyboard shortcuts and tracks your usage or non-usage of them, identifying various ways y
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> copy and pasting random pieces of XML from the internet Also, I don't see that this is a big deal when dealing with a declarative paradigm. In fact, cutting and pasting random bits of declarative code makes a lot of sense to me.
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Agree, but OTOH, this advice is pretty well disseminated at this point. It can be hard to find an opening to contribute in a decent OSS project that one can keep up with, especially as a beginner, with many others clamoring to do the same.
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Reading this most charitably, the implication seems to be that his action _isn't enough_. That he should also devote his efforts full time to combating the problems he speaks about for less compensation, or donate the excess compensati

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