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Great monologue, shaky biology. Viruses do not multiply endlessly. Most viruses exist in stable ecological cycles. Most viruses are beneficial to life. We complain about the few (a…

None of these products would be made in the US, though ... and none would affect trade imbalance ... so the net effect might only be to increase inefficiency in your own country

I had the opposite reaction ... they still have 16 million users ...

Reply: things don't work well for the same reason this very post is so hard to read wall of text. I find it deeply ironic that the author can't even produce readable text, while co…

> Hopefully this is the inflection point for Chrome. Here is one empirical data point. I switched over to Firefox this morning and will advocate for it. I've considered it for a wh…

Without even visiting the page I can predict what this writing will be about with uncanny accuracy. 1. Big words at the start - pretending to hack at a problem so big that just swi…

There is a parable that applies here, --- The donkey, feeling unappreciated, approaches God with a heavy heart. "Dear God," says the donkey, "why is it that all the other animals m…

That's what going "nuclear" looks like ... I guess Mullenweg found out. Sadly, instead of supporting open source with $5 million, they each will spend 10 million on lawyers.

Another writeup: The Shameful Defenestration of Tim https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr...

Excellent point made here; credit card balance can be a money maker, actually! The actual opposite of debt.

I am not calling others wrong, I am calling the definition incorrect. A credit card balance during the grace period is not a debt - it is no different than paying by check - it is …

Statements like the above are what should give everyone pause. I think that statement can't be true. Detailed measurements exists for less than a hundred years - yet the WWA is coc…

But if you look at the number-crunching process that gave you those percentages, it turns out to be woefully fragile and sensitive to a whole range of other factors Countless prior…

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Check those numbers. I looked at the original data, and it seems that in the report you linked, debt is defined as a credit card balance. I don't know about others, but I always fl…

Python, in general, would be much faster for prototyping than Java. That is the main attraction of Pyhon.

why compete in the consumer domain when Uncle Sam pays you not to

I think you are conflating two different things here: where you come up with ideas and where you produce the goods. To stay on the topic of drones, Skydio is an example of a US sta…

Another datapoint to whether one can compete or not SkyDio, a US startup, entered the market producing drones with object avoidance so advanced that it was far beyond what DJI offe…

The author forgets to mention yet another dimension of the problem - a direct political one. Loan forgiveness ... in essence, a form of vote-buying ... vote for me, and we'll forgi…

right, but my point was that you should need to do detective work to figure out the date of a post, especially when the title refers to a transition in time from one era to another…

Articles like this need to have a date right around the title Otherwise, you will be left scratching your head about the era the opinion is from. Notably, the author has another po…

I will add that I am grateful that I also got to experience a world where AI did not spew tons of code like a sausage-making machine. It was so satisfying to code up a solution whe…

I recall a post by Simon Willison https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/23/datasette-gunicorn/#be...

I read you post, I am not sure I agree with: > transforming a tool of empowerment into an amplifier of existing disparities. Which disparity are we talking about? That of non-coder…