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I was too young to understand the dot com boom when it happened, being in grade school at the time. But I do remember when smartphones became not just a luxury, but a necessity, an…

"“Just like you would eat eggs for breakfast, the sea spider grazes the surface of its body, and it munches all those bacteria for nutrition,” said Shana Goffredi, a professor and …

This is why I think the study of logic and having fields where the culture generally agrees on "what counts" as good argumentation is really important. Does it solve these problems…

My Zune HD from 2005/2006 still works. I think it's the oldest piece of functional tech I own. No, I don't use it on a daily basis. But I love booting it up every now and again. It…

I don't get it. "I'm fighting for you, the little guy!" That's the same refrain I hear from tons of people, from Donald Trump and Biden to TurboTax to the HR department. What I don…

So how do you even fix a problem like this? It seems the company had some procedures in place, particularly the documentation of "removals," but the line employees didn't follow th…

I agree with everything you said here. I mean this guy chose to be a movie critic -- probably the dyingest corner of a dying industry. And of course they can pay people nothing for…

That last line really resonated with me: "It's the only thing I really know how to do," or something about like that. One of the most terrifying realizations I've had over the past…

Amen. What I found so interesting about Girard's perspective on Christ is that Jesus represents the end of the "scapegoat," because he is the "holy and perfect Sacrifice." In Girar…

All respect to McLuhan, there are obvious and meaningful differences between a message and its delivery!

Definitely -- but the problem isn't really "content" moderation. What it seems like you actually want is personality / tone / user moderation -- which Bluesky isn't really doing. T…

This is true! I'm not sure I 100% agree with your analogy, but your basic point is of course correct.

I just edited my comment; see above.

Seems like a really, really good way to create a really, really boring website. ETA: Rereading this, that is probably not a very helpful HNy comment, so let me elaborate. Maybe I a…

For years, I had cable internet and purchased my own modem to use along with my own router, main reason being I don't trust my ISP to handle my personal information with discretion…

Super interesting, thank you for posting. Agreed with a lot of it, except for one thing: "No syncing without running an eggdrop or some tty somewhere running it 24/7." That's one o…

I thought this article was going to be somehow less intuitive, but in reality, it simply says something most people inherently understand: that you have to grease the skids a bit t…

From multiple perspectives: Far left: https://jacobin.com/2023/01/canada-medically-assisted-dying-... Center left (citing multiple troubling cases reported in public media): https:…

Less disturbing than the raw percentage is the context in which some of these suicides have reportedly been carried out. People who are simply lonely, who have addictions, who don'…

Yeehaw :P

I'm not sure your post, while true, is responsive. Rules are naturally infringements on individual liberty. The question is, which rules can one justify? Put differently, when can …

Fascinating. There is a famous course at Michigan Law called Bloodfeuds, which takes a scholarly view of the old Icelandic laws of revenge as told through the sagas. The point of t…

IIRC, it does depend on distance and time, and it maxes out at about $600.

What was their defense in court?