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I have heard that Marvel & DC, don't care about comic piracy at all. Comics are a cheap loss leading funnel for what actually makes money: movies, tv, video games, & especially mer…

Existentialism's conclusion is often nihilism: Life has no meaning. Absurdism is an extension to that: Yes, but you may create your own.

This is approximately the correct breakdown. Its interesting that ⅔ of the combo could be lumped into different kinds of luck. You can't do much about your inherited or birth situa…

They personally are not great people, but the system that has enabled them to hoard personal wealth and leave the streets full of the destitute will be destroyed. The most importan…

> It's much, much easier to live and work in a foreign country today. And it's only getting easier as technology improves. So let the current oligarchs exile themselves and we'll d…

The existing ultra-wealthy are one problem, and tricky. Systemically preventing oligarchs and aristocrats from arising in the future is another.

Gwynne Shotwell runs SpaceX. He could use a Shotwell for Tesla and focus on his strength: being outrageous and running his useful cult of personality. I’m not sure his behavior hel…

He's got Gwynne Shotwell running SpaceX he needs a Gwynne of Tesla.

Scottish is incorrectly labeled on the map. Source: have scottish friends. At least I think they're my friends, hard to tell exactly at times.

Former Bloglines dev here. I prefer https://www.inoreader.com/

The difference in educational levels is economic. If you correct for the income & wealth levels of the international district and match them to american districts with similar leve…

i probably charge mine every two weeks. amazing product.

The liking and hiding emphasis features are trivial. They hardly matter. If Facebook's post emphasis algorithm was entirely random, very nuanced or specifically malevolent it would…

You follow people if you want to see some of their posts. You unfollow people if you don't want to see any of their posts. If you like something, Facebook shows you more posts like…

> Social media is all about making you feel bad. > Its a platform for people with low self esteem to dream about what their lives could have been. For older folks to remember the p…

That's not a flaw. One reason I prefer Approval Voting is that it makes this clear. Approval Voting works the same as RCV but without ranking. Vote for all candidates you approve o…

"The Tyranny of Structurelessness" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...

afaik, this is how Facebook does it, but with regional sources of truth. If you signed up for FB in Paris and move to San Francisco, your master profile lives in Europe in perpetui…

If I 'like' one of my gay cousin's posts on FB, I get the most interesting underwear ads for the next 3 days. I suspect it boils down to what the ad customers are willing to buy an…

In the SF Bay Area, MBPs are the standard. You're almost certainly correct about the wider world.

I discovered https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat A couple weeks ago. One thing it does better than the official app is that on Mac the red window button hides the window rather …

Q: How often am I editing a file that exists on a computer close enough to me that a GUI editor would be at all useful? A: Rarely.

I always take 6 or more weeks per year. Usually I have unlimited vacation. The few times I've been acquired by megacorps with ancient vacation policies I either "forget" to file fo…