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Yeah, and also cuz they kinda sucked. 1st-gen iMessage, or even old-school Trillian, was loads better than Google's graveyard of shitty chat products. Google had no overarching cha…

Their CEO was on here the other day and said it doesn't apply to R2 or Workers, and that they needed to update their TOS: > (eastdakota) That limitation doesn’t apply to the R2 ser…

Google had a relatively good chat product, Google Talk. Then they invented Google Hangouts, Google+, Wave, Allo, Messenger, Meet, and Chat. Now IRC is dead. Who gets the last laugh…

What do you mean by "Cloudflare isn't a slick Brand"? I feel like they're the only cloud company that's been doing any real innovation for the last 5-10 years, and in a very approa…

> Whether someone is interested in religion is not the same as whether they find truth in religion. OK, I agree with that assessment. But I wasn't arguing that Einstein was deeply …

> but we simply don't know because it's impossible to ascertain through external means. Yeah, exactly. We haven't developed a good enough Turing test -- for machines, people, or go…

I don't understand what you're trying to point out. That groups of things can have behaviors that lone individuals don't exhibit? Yes, that is true, whether at the atomic level or …

Sorry, I tried. Hearing one of what?

You can't just take one quote out of context and use it to paint Einstein as altogether disinterested in religion -- he wasn't. To him, there was a difference between believing in …

Spinoza's God is interesting not because it's a competitor to the Christian God or Thor or whatever, but because it's a rarely-explored aspect of Einstein's belief system (and conf…

> It requires no explanation, it must be. It's sort of like asking "why do we have something instead of nothing?". You can substitute "universe" for "god" and still get the same le…

We as a species may lack the mental faculties to truly understand the mechanisms by which life evolved the ability to analyze and reason about its surroundings and itself. We lack …

What's the philosophical difference between your subjective experience of existence and a 90s-style power-on-self-test? "I am on. I can tell that I am on. I dunno what I think once…

I'm imagining The Universe™ sitting in front of a crusty old interdimensional space laptop, thumbs-upping your actions in the ol' Fatebook once in a while. Probably The Universe™ r…