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What a wonderful thread to watch. Is there a brave soul out there who will defend the right of cars and motorcycles to be ultra-loud?? I've recall seeing "safety" invoked as the reason on Reddit once.
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There must be a difference between paying for the infrastructure and paying for the content (including the code). It's easy to imagine a future where the infrastructure is something analogous to a public good, like clean water. The in
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Agree, this article seems to be focused on a solution in search of a problem. Obviously random web forums are not the solution if you're wanting immortal, permanently searchable archived wisdom.
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Because it's Paul Graham, who's a very rich and wise venture capitalist, over whose musings people who also want to be very rich and wise venture capitalists someday, must fawn and nod their heads and agree with, as if he has said
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Ads, in whatever medium, are fundamentally bad UX. Not to mention utterly without value and a waste of precious human attention. It is always breathtaking to consider how much has been built on the back of advertising, I guess because ther
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I associate TED talks with inserting a certain fantasy into the minds of people aspiring to be rich and famous, especially in the tech world. The fantasy is: being on stage, a thought leader. Dressed ever-so-slightly-casual. Holding the
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I'm 42 and in a similar place. I'm in my third year of law school and about to become a patent attorney -- a 4th career. Hopefully this one brings me happiness and fulfillment. /s For me, (accidentally) having a kid has cat
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I assume I am not alone in thinking that Duck Duck Go would be far more popular if they had not selected such a dumb name. Great work, but they desperately need to rebrand.
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A shame that Blackberry did not opt in to something like this: https://lotnet.com/how-we-protect-members/ https://lotnet.com/members/
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This criticism is as misguided as "end all regulation." The specific problem that the US patent system enables is that patent rights can be assigned to anyone, just like any other property right. That is what allows NPEs to exploi
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NYT has maintained several free to play games for years now. This game is equally trivial with several of them, for example, Spelling Bee. https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
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Ads are such a strange cancer on the internet. So ugly, so without value, such a waste of time, such a sinkhole of precious attention. And yet -- would the modern internet even exist but for ads? I'm not so sure. It seems there is a
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I think you missed the point of the Weir mention. The author wasn't taking a swipe at Weir (in the way that many sci-fi snobs do). He was discussing Weir in the taxonomy of Project Hieroglyph, which is clear from the full context: &g
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The real question is, what happens to this page when distance hits 0. Reminds me of this old, favorite LOL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
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Webb’s Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete(blogs.nasa.gov)
135 points by jordanpg 5y ago|33 comments
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This. Where is the nuance and slow thinking, folks? I don't know much about much, but I do know that the far future of computing isn't going to involve people memorizing and typing complicated passwords, or using finicky password
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https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7afc686e-640b-4fb0-b902-666baad... But seriously, limiting ourselves to light speed here is somewhat... disappointing. If the speed of light really is something that can't be worked a
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While we're at it, let's also drop greetings and sign-offs from emails. Not just for wasted time, but also because they're pointless, awkward, and anachronistic.
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Agree with this and would also add: in addition to being able to do algebra fast and have it be second-nature, at higher levels it helps if you are able to do it 100% accurately. 5 nines isn't enough. I didn't appreciate this un
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Neal Stephenson Thinks Greed Might Be the Thing That Saves Us(nytimes.com)
17 points by jordanpg 5y ago|3 comments
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I understand that it will take months to perfect the primary mirror alignment and focus for good science data, but when can we expect the first image?
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I sense in myself a disconnect between my desire to read longform journalism and my willingness to actually spend the time to do it. It's as if I have a guilty, deep-down feeling that the longform stuff is the really good, nourishing s
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https://3quarksdaily.com/
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Bad Gateway(blogs.nasa.gov)
1 points by jordanpg 5y ago|1 comments
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If I could choose a single word to characterize all of Christian theology it would have to be “underwhelming.”
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After Patient Death, FDA Places Hold on Pfizer DMD Gene Therapy Trial(genengnews.com)
2 points by jordanpg 5y ago|0 comments
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Will JWST send back pictures comparable (presumably better?) to the ones Hubble takes? Those famous Hubble pictures are the defining images of a generation of scientists and dreamers. Are we about to get an update of those? Or is this miss
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There is a difference between the results of one experiment in a narrow subfield, and the results of an uncountable number of experiments across disciplines and time. There is a difference "subjecting fact claims to scrutiny" and
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Putting aside any special reverence we might have for the dead, I guess the abstract question is: is there any social value to publicly shaming those who uncritically call into question settled scientific claims, putting others at risk? I
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I agree. Along with the death penalty, the history books are going to be extremely unkind to us on this, and deservedly so. “A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” ― Fy

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