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> An inquiry was organized by the Swedish Privy Council to find those responsible for the disaster, but in the end no one was punished.[1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa…

Developing into what?

> We are beginning to see that all these years we thought it was our constitutional right to free speech that was the major thing. Yes, it would be and will be if the government ta…

I'm more comfortable with Apple's decisions than some on Hackers News, so take this with a grain of salt... but the difference between what Google/Facebook does and Apple does is a…

I just finished _Reamde_ and was, overall, fairly satisfied with the way the story built towards the conclusion. It moves in unexpected directions, but I enjoyed the entire ride.

I started having a similar issue with Spotify a couple years ago. Eventually I discovered that someone else was using my (free) account to listen to bunch of Spanish-language music…

> it’s repugnant to characterize entire groups of people with the same brush. No, it's not. This isn't about whatever imagined prejudice or discrimination you're talking about. As …

We don't have to go any further than the tweet that started this thread: McAfee claimed to be "getting subtle messages" from officials in the American government threatening to kil…

> his past statements still need to be taken seriously, and extra care and doubt need to be applied to the reported story. Why? The fact that he had a paranoid fantasy of being mur…

Not that it undermines your overall point, but it might prove to disincentivize attacking smaller companies that aren't in as strong a position to use proxies -- which I would stil…

> Success is more random than we'd like to believe, and there is a risk when failure leads to victim blaming. An excellent sentiment, if less common these days than it should be. R…

Given that we're just talking HTML, I don't see how you could meaningfully prevent bad actors, absent storing screenshots of the original text -- and even then (see any number of f…

If you're looking for a crash course on him as a political thinker, you could check out the selections that seem of interest to you from his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary …

The initial page just shows the art, but after a couple seconds it pops up with an explicit credit to Michael Friesen and a link to his twitter: > Imagined by a GAN (generative adv…

> We just need to know that, even armed with all that knowledge, he still made the decision he did, and that we should not expect others with less knowledge of how software works t…

When doing my own writing, I try to remember a quotation from Kenneth Hudson's The Jargon of the Professions: > The best minds in any profession are never guilty of jargon, expect …

When you say "implementation details", do you mean things like their Safari Privacy White Paper[0], their Photos Tech Brief[1], their Location Services White Paper[2], or their App…

Lots of democracies have legal definitions for what counts as political advertising. Obviously Twitter doesn't have to use those definitions, but there are fairly clear guidelines …

On the topic of everyday life and improv, you might be interested a TEDx talk called, appropriately, The Way of Improvisation .[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUO-pWJ0riQ

> I apologize that you found my text length was too long but I thought the extra background was necessary to get state why deep reading is often a waste of time. I read @EGreg as p…

You should have seen my camera roll on my phone while playing through some areas. It was an incredibly helpful tool for getting through the game.

You might be interested in reading about the history of the Australian ballot[0] to get a sense of we vote the way with do ("we" being fairly loose in this case, as many places out…