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Yea it's super neat. More journals/articles should have those to appeal to lay readers.

I agree that the world is a complex system, but I don't actually agree that all or most of my actions as a private individual have wide reaching consequences. If you're below a cer…

I used to be baffled at the use of "SJW" as a pejorative, but comments like this reveal it's aptness to me. It's not the fighting for justice that's negative, it's the adoption of …

It appears to be a literal troll account - "Peter Weyland" is the villain from the Alien cinematic universe.

Apologies for the somewhat pedantic aside, but I want to point out: "literal Nazi" is a borderline oxymoron. There is no Nazi party, nor is Nazism a coherent political ideology to …

Was just perusing the Hoon tutorial out of curiosity, and it's wild how alien of a language it is. To my eyes it's like a bastard child of brainfuck and common lisp; look at the "s…

Is it really? It seems like an enormous amount of effort for a prank. 18k commits on the main repo, tens of thousands of words of explanatory blog posts and documentation, etc.

I highly doubt, if they even had a dedicated "security team" at the time the platform was architected as such, that they would have told the rest of the company they "had best-of-b…

Mine are mostly offers for a pre-approved $250,000 loan, available in less than 48 hours, for my non-existent small business. Curious what stolen mailing list I'm on that makes sca…

> relatively minimal resources Uh, they're the most well capitalized corporation in the world (or hovering in the top 3 plus or minus a few quarters). They have the resources to ma…

Yea, the build quality is the biggest area it's lacking. I have Lemur from 3 years ago or so (and they still look more or less the same) - and the body is very uninspiring chunky b…

Strange that App Academy was left out, considering it was one of the earliest (if not the first?) ISA bootcamps. Full disclosure: I attended in 2015, as did multiple friends in a +…

That's an inane take. Even in the absolute worst case scenario of 3% global mortality, how would that possibly result in a 50% global decrease in economic output?

There's a multitude of good reasons to close the dorms. People are sharing bedrooms, common areas, bathrooms and kitchens with far more people than they would be in the average pri…

Here's the thing though, if I'm not already an effective political actor (i.e. someone with a lot of money, or a significant network of people who listen to me, or in a position of…

I'm criticizing the assertion on it's logical merits (or lack thereof). You're ignoring the substance of my critique, and making a borderline ad-hominem attack on me, including att…

That's a shallow reading of his character. Trump loves few things more than being petty and vindictive towards his perceived enemies, and if big money is involved all the better.

This assertions along the lines of "it's a privilege to be able to be politically disengaged" is just an empty slogan weaponizing empathy to guilt whoever it's directed at towards …

Calling it 'conversational prostitution' isn't really an accurate analogy; or rather, it shouldn't be if you're taking the therapy seriously, though a lazy therapist/patient couple…

> deadlift's are quite dangerous for the untrained. This is just false. Sure, the untrained should get some instruction on proper form, and start with manageable weights, as with a…

Yea I'm a bit frightened for the creators. I guess if they just comply with the inevitable C&D they won't get sued into oblivion?

Seems very unlikely for safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#/media/File:Fa... Cost, who knows.

I'm no adtech expert, but I'm pretty sure he would not be getting .50 cents per user per year - that's what WebMD, one of the top 1000 most trafficked web sites in the world makes,…

Yea, I don't doubt they would remain closely entangled with the US Government even if we changed the IFF incentive structure. But even so, the present incentive structure is partic…

I'm sure they are, but do the European governments equivalent of the GSA also have incentives to actually drive up the price of consulting contracts they source for their governmen…