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Made me think of this bit from Tim Urban’s classic blog post, The Tail End[0]: >It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person paren…

Shameless plug for Changewatch [0], a work-in-progress aimed at making it easier to keep track of changing terms and policies. Feedback very welcome. [0] https://www.changewatch.co…

If you don’t mind my asking, what is the occupation you found? And what led you to an ADD diagnosis? (Asking as someone in their thirties who suspects they might have undiagnosed A…

This project came about because we kept getting emails from companies saying something along the lines of “We’ve updated our terms of use. Click here to see the new version”. This …

That’s really interesting, thank you. As you say, it seems like there’s a significant grey area that needs to be resolved, and I could see it being quite difficult to figure out wh…

Going by this definition of public domain, I don’t see how this could be the case: > The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property…

I'm not sure it's true that something being algorithmically generated means it's public domain. Plenty of assets for things like video games are procedurally generated, but that do…

I would argue that a lie involves deliberate deception, not just untruth. Fiction, then, is not a lie, as by definition it is something imagined or invented, and therefore not crea…

Thank you for taking the time to write this out, it was really interesting to hear your point of view. I can't imagine what it must have been like to lose seven children before bir…

Would you be able to expand on what you mean by it being a spiritual problem? And what the spiritual tools for the avoidance of nihilism are? I'm only just now, in my thirties, lea…