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I think this is the natural process , but how you implement it doesn't matter. A lot of GitHub repos use "unlabelled issue" === "a discussion thread". The benefit is that instead o…

If you copy/paste an image at the OS level, if it's a gif, it gets converted to a still image/only the last frame is taken. This seems like it should be fairly simple to solve. Is …

this isn't a "it depends on what computation happens in this specific case" question, this is a "how does human cognition work". Every website you visit has the payload delivered o…

The first thing that happened in your mind when you read that sentence is (1) a bad feeling. That then triggered (2) a rational, conscious thought that interpreted that bad feeling…

> The last thing we need is a formal framework of how to have organic discussions. this is no different from best practices for programming though. People take a rule that generall…

I don't think that's necessarily true, I think it's about curation, not volume. The largest open source projects in the world have enormous inbound volume but extremely high qualit…

memes are not "on the side of reality". memes are on the side of whatever resonates. What resonates is what aligns to your model of reality (which is shaped by the ideology you're …

important notes from the essay, this not unique to twitter: > And if you think this only happens on one social network, you’re already caught in the wrong attention loop. > The mos…

> The line is clear: is money being exchanged in order to promote a product? That's advertising. this is obviously not a clear line. No money is exchanged when I promote my own pro…

this is the pattern: - humans find useful concept X - they describe it with label Y - it's genuinely useful, it spreads - It gets too big, Y is misunderstood and corrupted - New gr…

you're both correct. All humans have a hardware component, an ideology acts as an attractor. Humans finding connection with other humans like them is one of the strongest pulls for…