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Why shouldn't the creation of knowledge and expertise come with a price tag? The question is "is it cheaper to create a system that creates new expertise than it is to hire someone…

IME, both Apple TV and Amazon Fire stick devices do this too.

This gets at one of the core beliefs lots of people seem to have about socialism: that human nature means it will be implemented poorly. It's pretty hard to test that out, though, …

> neighborhoods or people to try to protect, to the detriment of everyone else wanting to live there Wait, you have a problem with a city government trying to serve the people who …

> Psychopathy is a condition characterized by the absence of empathy and the blunting of other affective states. Callousness, detachment, and a lack of empathy... That doesn't seem…

That's clearly not the kind of research that's going to be done. Funding of gun studies means we can make arguments backed up by data instead of partisan bickering. Calls to arm te…

These rules were created specifically because so many people were profiting off the ad revenue of music in videos. There's not a simple way to determine if the audio just happens t…

The creation of a trueRandom function certainly seems to solve this problem more than taking away a useful tool for cases where pseudo-random is good enough.

Agreed, MFA is so important that a company should be willing to pay for it.

It tells me that you didn't bother paying attention to the spellcheck in your writing tool, probably didn't take the time to carefully re-read a document for errors, and likely had…

It is kind of hilarious how often rent-seeking behavior is called out as evil when it comes to software companies, but actual rent-seeking with real estate is seen as virtuous inve…

Detecting wrong answers doesn't tell you anything about how many right answers there might be.

It's a lot longer from zero (or negative, in you have student loans) to a quarter million if you're working outside the SV/software engineer salary bubble.

This is the downside of having an AG who has been indicted on criminal charges for thee last 6 years. How much can you trust the guy?

Managers aren't for bookkeeping or commanding; they're for leadership.

Is it productivity, or is the work to mine new "knowledge coins" just harder now that we've done some of the easier work?

Big agree, although I think in this case even the auto-generated stuff being talked about is awful.

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

I thought it was a pretty compelling idea when I first saw it in the original Jurassic Park movie, even if that was a metaphor for "hacking."

Uh, it's pretty clear there's a board level leaker here. This kind of leak is how the board forces action onto the CEO.

Maybe bylines will become important again. Also, wasn't this a plot point in Neil Stephenson's "Anathem"?

Considered by who?

Good advice that is applicable towards doomsday cults as well.

This is why I keep one of each in my home. By having an Echo, Google Assistant, and an iPhone, I figure I'm able to give everyone access to my data, making it worth less. ( )

What exactly is sane about figuring out how to make 200,000 contractors full-time employees inside of a week? I don't think there's a company in the world that could pull that off.…