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>Concise Go code has a high signal-to-noise ratio. A few lines later: // Good: if err := doSomething(); err != nil { // ... } "Tell me, how many lights you see?"

It's unreasonable to expect researchers vet someone who promises them $500K? In what insane world does this statement make any sense? It's not just common sense, but also necessary…

>SBF was treated as the king of crypto by the mainstream for whatever reason. I think the reason is getting more and more obvious with every passing day. His father and mother are …

>It this real? Is he really THAT stupid? No, it's media damage control. Gets you to think about unverifiable stuff like personal motivation instead of what his company actually did…

Does it strand legitimate scientists or does it indicate that there is corruption in science? From what I'm hearing, this whole FTX thing reeks of clever, politically connected fra…

>Nevertheless, the attitude-change techniques used by so-called “brainwashers” are no different than standard persuasive methods identified by social psychologists, such as encoura…

Wikipedia is one of the worst things that was ever launched on the web. Many people say that it's reliable, except in cases of controversy. That's a spin. A more honest way of desc…

There is no such thing as "mild" heart damage. Moreover, clinical myocarditis and pericarditis are only tips of the iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vveMHtVk_mY People who …

It's almost as if building a hypercentralized faux-communication system that tries to encourage mindless behavior and doesn't have any notion of locality is an inherently bad idea …

The reality is that W3C and Mozilla do not matter anymore. I'm not saying this because I like it, I'm saying this because it's the obvious state of things. Google controls the stan…

Yeah, US was a very trusting society until it started using money, cars and converted to individualism. If only we could go back to our Communist roots. /s

That's all nice and well, but I no longer can tell the difference between Big Tech's "Abuse Prevention" and abuse. They need transparency not because it's going to make their job e…

A lot of really good points. >Sure, we use the word "learn" to describe what they do, which is one word that we also use to describe what people do. But ML models are always wielde…

>Why does no government anywhere run a non-profit dating site from tax-payer money when this is becoming the most popular way people are meeting? Sounds like a great idea. I nomina…

Maybe. The real question is how many people in tech saying this would say the same thing without that Tweet by Musk.

>They will tell you that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are pretty important to them. Drugs are important to drug addicts. That's not a reason to praise the dealers for their bus…

The article is full of misrepresentations, some of which were already pointed out. One I have to point out myself: ">People really, really, hate Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. So much …