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>I once talked with a Firefox engineer who felt like an initial urge for openness left them with a lot of API surface area that locked them into a lot of design choices. LOL, as if…

We talking tumors in the state of metastatic solid?

Despots make sure the people who care are killed off (or at least marginalized, say in prison), leaving only people who don't.

It's not much like a shovel, as it's fundamentally a means of deception. Deception only has legitimate purposes insofar as "the ends justify the means," and they never do in this i…

They're both cyclical.

> a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform Maybe the advertised products will all be opportunities to make money. Occasionally job listings, mo…

When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters. But the listing only shows the part you don't read!

Sounds like you're talking about a one-time thing then rather than a sustainable practice. I think if you loiter in front of a gas station you will be rousted by police in much les…

For Uber, it's the drivers who provide the capital!

I guess they're not allowed on Google Drive either.

Domains aren't free, they're limited.

>Why would a person make $14.50/hour when they could make $15/hour applying directly to places? Yeah, the generally wouldn't, which is why you have to conclude that they don't have…

DUI example is strange. There are blood alcohol tests, can't really avoid conviction if you fail the test. What's the explanation supposed to be for all the acquittals? The way you…

Prison populations skew toward violent crimes because the sentences for them are longer. They aren't representative of the number of convicts.

At least, the staffing agency can negotiate a better deal than you could find and secure for yourself.

Most people don't have the location. It's expensive to live where that kind of opportunity exists.

That's the standard line. Don't let it be a thought-terminating cliche though. There's no solution to the problem there. Maybe question the idea of strict social segregation of chi…

> ensure that they get better advantages/opportunities than others Gifted kids don't even need "better advantages" -- just either give them appropriate level material, or at least …

>You can't run a harvesting tractor through a greenhouse. Sure you can. Just needs to be big enough.

So you have to put electrodes on your neck for this?

Fuel cells are batteries that you pour fuel into.

I powered my house for a couple days with my hybrid Camry on much less than a single tank of gas. Hooked it up to the breaker through an inverter. The "generator" in this setup aut…

That's just describing the problem.

Competition will fix asymmetric information? That's _not_ how the theory goes.

LITERALLY children.