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> The sheer number of tools and plugins and packages and dependencies and editor setup and build configurations required to do it “the right way” is enough to stall you before you even get started. At some point you have to ask yourself
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For another famous example, the Wright brothers spent most of their latter life litigating patents [1]. Who knows what other great things they might have invented otherwise. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brot
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> The history of computers [...] is better understood as a history of ideas, mainly ideas that emerged from mathematical logic I have an advanced degree in CS and have done my fair share of theory, but ideas from logic are the cherry on
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> Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction. With a ve
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Or rather "alcohol bad, caffeine good". The author is from Cato Institute - are they planning to bring Prohibition back now? Anyway here are a few major holes in the story. - "People drank alcohol because it was safer than wa
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Even if you replace one definition of status with many (seven billion?), each one of these new definitions is itself zero sum.
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> 2. allow the apps to be used without a login - with the default view showing 'what is on now' Twitter generally needs to get a lot better at predicting what you'll be interested in (think Pandora.) Just based on the IP t
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This piece contains four major ideas. They're mixed up with biographical detail and polemics so they can use a separate exposition: A. Your words are not an encoding of your meaning > [Y]our words are not an encoding of your meani
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Major browsers to begin shipping WebAssembly on-by-default(lists.w3.org)
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WebAssembly official logo has been selected(github.com)
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> In this thread: mostly people responding to the headline, not the actual content of the article Agreed - the actual content reads more like "The mythical 10x programmer ... is me". ("many people told me that they believe
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> While Google's products do work together I would argue they also work with competitors. I think there are two ways in which it can be argued that Google's auxiliary products destroy competition. On the one hand Google uses it
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>How would you go about applying antitrust laws to companies like facebook, google, uber, and airbnb? I think this would be a difficult fight because they all can claim serious competition. It depends how you define the market, right? If
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>And this new world order is being driven by a tiny cabal of monopolies. So commercial dissent is near impossible. Do you want to be the weirdo without a Facebook account? The obvious solution is antitrust law. Why is Microsoft no longer
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Yahoo does badly -> CEO still does well. Chobani does badly -> employees' Chobani stock is also doing badly. Giving more stock to employees is not a safety net.
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>Are you seriously poking a hole in the argument by saying it's fine because CEOs are just used to being rich? That's pretty much the opposite of what I'm saying.
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> Even if Yahoo’s board fires her, her contract stipulates she gets $54.9 million in severance. [...] In other words, Mayer can’t lose. [For the rest of America] wages are shrinking, median household income continues to drop, workers are
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> By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personali
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Slowly fill the hole with very salty water. The dog will float to the surface. The stated dimensions will require about 7000 gallons of water. This is the capacity of a large-ish tank truck. 70+ meter hoses should be readily available.
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> What of people receiving Social Security, pensions, inherited wealth, royalties from patents and copyrights, rents collected on real estate...? Not exactly the definition of the creative class is it?
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> Game-theory software can even help locate a terrorist's hideout [... by estimating] on a 100-point scale the importance a wanted man attaches to his likes (fishing, say) and priorities (remaining hidden or [...] recruiting suicide
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> we have been happy to rely on economic models that work with comfortingly quantitative facts on GDP, income per capita [...] If we go beyond averages and GDP per capita and look at the distributional impact of our economic decisions fo
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>The median [...] just has a small advantage in that it will always map a real observation, so for discrete data you don't end up with things like "1.9 legs." If you listen to someone like Taleb, the main advantage they me
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>It should be possible to build a prototype post-facto “truth labeling” system [...] Such a system would tentatively label a claim or story as true/false based on the stances taken by various news organizations on the topic, weighte
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> “Liquor at that time,” recalled the Massachusetts carpenter Elbridge Boyden, “was used as commonly as the food we ate.” And it made perfect sense in the age before refrigeration. Since alcohol doesn't spoil it's a great way t
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>1. Call 2. Participate 3. Share 4. Vote This is the same kind of bullshit that's lost Hillary the election and got us here in the first place. It might have worked in the '90s to get a gold medal for Rosa Parks. It will not wo
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> What happens to late bloomers? Are they forever cast down into a track of lower opportunity? It's a good point, but it only argues for easy transfers into / out of the "gifted" track. > What about the social bene
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Reddit Cracks Down on Trolls, Adds New Filter Tool and Threatens Bans(ibtimes.com)
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After reading a fair amount about Stoicism and still being unclear, I've found a good summary in Adam Smith's almost forgotten classic, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759) [1]: "Human life the Stoics appear to h
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>At the end of the survey, each participant was entered onto a draw for $100, and was given the choice to keep their winnings or to donate it to a charity. Participants again reported on their sexual histories, completed a personality me

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