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You are the only person who will recognize and value your own overachievements. Prevailingly, others will view your efforts and either think nothing of them or wonder why anyone wo…

Plenty of smart people drop out of school. Even more smart people never get a chance to attend a school out of which to drop.

There's a code golf problem in there. My money's on sed and /etc/network/interfaces.

Can anyone recommend a browser I can pay for to prevent malicious tracking of my browsing habits? I'm curious if businesses like this exist and whether or not they can be successfu…

Opportunity costs only exist wherein opportunities exist.

But the facts are less fun than my indignation!

They can always print fake labels, but they can't deliver fake products too many times. Customers will realize that fraud is happening. Again, there are also ways to make labels th…

You don't take the data at face value. The goal of these systems is to reduce human intervention, not to remove the intervention. If a firm fakes data, you still have proof in the …

As an example, food safety in the developing world. Food firms claim food is fresh and came from places where it did not come from. If you introduce an agricultural and food taggin…

We're agreeing. My point is that we should care about a billion people in China and a billion people in the West and billions everywhere. You're right that free speech and dissent …

Replace "reeducation camps in Xinjiang" with "projects in Philadelphia" and "social credit system" with "private credit ratings" and you see that we're not as unlike as we thought.…

In the limit of infinite passing tests, do we recover the byte we sought? Or does it asymptote to some other quantity? I'm asking relative to a maximum entropy prior.

This is where we revive the debate about whether programming can be creative because it follows such rigid syntax rules. The unenlightened say it's not, and the obsessed say it is.…

Python? I find the documentation to be confusing and difficult to search. Many of the arguments to standard functions are not explicitly documented nor do they have obvious enough …

There's a Pascal's wager in this situation. In the worst case, there's no cognitive effect from pollution, but you clean up the environment anyway. Even without the possibility of …

Tuttle or Buttle, was it?

As a native English speaker whose first written language was Spanish and who has studied and spoken German, Italian, and Cantonese, it has always seemed to me that English is one o…

The theory of chemistry from the perspective of information theory. Since we can equate energy and information and since chemical reactions are largely governed by energy landscape…