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A lot of mathematics often takes 100+ years to find a practical use because we have developed it so much that we have use all the easy maths. Things like CS or SWE are so new that …

Its not as simple as just being lazy, our brains are hardwired to take the path of least resistance. I believe someone industrious like you is the exception and not the rule which …

Interesting, your point kind of reminds me of the reality TV boom.

This I can understand and if you look at the body of my post I talk about understanding if youtube was a selector of quality content, but people will watch hours of slop on youtube…

Fair, but people will watch a random youtuber doing a video essay for the first time on an old topic like sbmm or AI in games and enjoy it yet find a 500 million dollar movie borin…

I understand the basic arguments—YouTube’s rise in short-form content, faster dopamine hits, and lower expectations placed on creators. But even if we set short-form content aside,…

So does documentation for programming languages matter anymore (at a the lower levels)? Sure if a programming language has better documentation the LLM can understand it better and…

the government's goal should be to protect the population not to be fair to one person who enjoys the odd $5 bet.

Brave breaks too many websites.

What you don't realize is YouTube would rather have half the users if all of them watched ads vs AdBlock users, so they actually want you to stop using YouTube. Most people will ju…

chicken and the egg problem

Couldn't you do this implicitly if I rate book A an 8 and book B a 7 then I have technically said book A is better than book B, so ignore the numerical value and take the better re…

This reminds me of my favourite scene from the social network when movie Zuck gets the idea for facemash: Billy Olson’s sitting here and had the idea of putting some of these next …

Without some level of recommendation engine wouldn't you need to pre-emptively know the blogs you want to follow already in which case what is the point of the site. What you are s…

The only way to stop a blogging site from being filled with crap is to limit uploads to lets say 12 per account , but give extra upload credits to blogs that get views or read time…

If the tip is mandatory include it in the price or shut up

ad blocking is not as popular as you think , I think 70-80% of people don't even use it especially on mobile.

Let me correct you on whole Zimbabwe point, the implication is oh the white farmers were so good and Mugabe ruined it by giving the land to the incompetent or uneducated locals and…

Get your brother or sister to pretend they are building it , no one is going to verify this. Once it gains enough traction consider quitting.

Very true Haha.

Very true but lets pretend we are in the real world where making all these changes is exponentially harder than only changing the cars. Listening to Geo-shot the main problem is to…

self driving cars would be easy if all the cars on the road were self driving, what makes it difficult is getting them to operate in an environment with illogical human drivers.

Look into psychohistory.

Very interesting

I have heard it said that sometimes great ideas are killed by start-up culture i.e. pressuring it to grow too quickly and take risks in hopes of 100x-ing the investment. Is it not …