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I think journalism has an honesty problem. Too much lying and manipulation has destroyed all trust. The most egregious offenders never allow reader comments or discussion underneat…

Plenty of us non-billionaires are glad PG wrote this article, because a lot a success-striving people are pretty grossed out by the lie that the only way to be a self made billiona…

If I had a dollar for everytime someone told me they have an advanced physics degree and can unequivocally gaurantee me that it will never be physically feasible to cool GPU's in s…

It works very well on a cloud hosted Ubuntu server. You only put things there within lobster reach that would not destroy you if leaked. You decide what to put with the lobster.

On unrealized gains, wait, what??

Surely what people want to "use it for" is completely orthogonal to the science itself? Let the science science, and policy makers make policy. I think the problem comes when we wa…

This really sucks, I hope Apple sorts it out, I wonder what one can do to put pressure on Apple - I suspect you may need a lawyer to write them in order to get your issue escalated…

The real question is whether genetics is a substantial or a negligible influence on intelligence (or proxy measures like IQ). If genetics is less than 5 percent I would consider th…

If someone makes a linux laptop that is as good as the a bleeding edge apple macbook air, it is shut-up&take-my-money. But it is hard to imagine a company spending the time to smoo…

I also want it. I dislike this idea "make it illegal I don't want other people to have the freedom to do something I dislike". Of you don't like unupgradable products, then don't b…

Can someone from the field provide examples of specific drugs or break through therapies that are approved for human use that we would not have had without breakthroughs in protein…

Same! I main macos, love the hardware, but I keep a very close eye on Linux (asahi, omarchy etc) in case Apple gets any more toxic, and I am forced to jump ship to something else, …

Not all rich guys are part of the ORGANIZED RICH. Some are, many/most aren't. For some rich guys whole point of being rich is to be maximally independent. Some billionaires are all…

Shareholders voted for it. Don't understand how the will of Tesla Shareholders is a corporate governance failure... couldn't read the rest of the article behind paywall, but the pr…

"for any reason other than to cure a fatal disease" ... what about non-fatal but debilitating ? Sounds like you have a pretty absolutist view here ? What other reasonable exception…

I'm pretty happy we got the Internet!!!! 10/10 would choose again

I don't see any food scarcity? A lot of innovation coming. Indoor 3D farming if needed. Bio-engineered algae bars if needed! Constant innovation at all levels. Why would food produ…

I always thought the usability/ergonomics of the Flutter framework was slightly poor, but the Dart language itself is pretty darn awesome! I also rolled my own reactivity interface…

For casual users there exist a huge chasm between "everything just works" and "everything works except x, y, z and those you must open seperately with Chrome".... I think many peop…

I don't think civilization ends if temperatures rise dramatically. A lot of existing agricultural land gets destroyed, but some currently unusable/unproductive areas that are too c…

What a brilliant idea. Definitely love it for politics. Not for CEO of any share I own!

I find it hard to locate my sympathy button for people who smash and burn things built up by other people.

American Citizens have the right to offensive free speech in America, a foreigner wishing to obtain a VISA does not and would be an idiot to think he should be allowed to visit if …

I use Windows 11 exclusively for games. When will we get steamOS with nvidia support!! Just want out of the box 4k hdr 120hz vrr and 5.1 surround sound over hdmi on nvidia gpu, it …

I suck at driving computer games, I would definitely fail on my first few tries.