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Isn’t it right and proper for management to serve ownership?

Note that roads are not neutral in the “net neutrality” sense, since emergency vehicles are prioritized. There’s a cogent argument against net neutrality on similar grounds: i.e., …

If opportunity cost means anything at all, “not extending one’s life” must have a truly dizzying opportunity cost.

As far as I can tell, reading documentation - not in snippets, to remember the details of something you know how to do, but top-to-bottom, to learn capabilities you didn’t know exi…

Aren’t you describing exactly the kind of “intuitive guess” he referred to, for why consciousness is embodied?

Art must be distributed to be appreciated. There will be demand for it: customers, each furiously waving their cash offer. Someone is going to render that art for consumption in ex…

If you went this route, I’d push it out farther and make the cut steeper. Maybe after 20 years you start doing X%, where X is (Years - 20)*2. I really don’t want to make it harder …

Can this line of reasoning be extended to poker?

This seems like the kind of thing that got decisively ruled out decades ago, but could the estimates of star mass be wrong?

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html

The vim integration piece uses the same concepts as the gdb integration. The rest uses some (very ugly) local scripts, cobbled together in 10-minute snatches of time over years. Ho…

Fzf can be a tremendous time-sink because its credible promise to improve your quality of life in the terminal. One of my most-frequently-used pry customizations is a keybinding th…

That sounds like exactly the kind of meaningful information I’d be interested in.

I would be interested in seeing normalized comparisons, data allowing - e.g., X deaths per person-protest-hour, that sort of thing.

> Calling to silence others (that is, encouraging them to take your view of not giving them an audience) is fine as long as people have a choice on how to respond. The urge to pree…

When some civilization becomes apparent, wouldn’t game theorizing say there’s a free rider problem? Wait for someone else to poke their heads out to handle it, save us the trouble,…

It’s driven by the nature of jokes in a long-running medium. Jokes both require and create context; this joke’s punchline is that joke’s setup. If the setup isn’t rooted in the cur…

Just a little bit of trivia for other Stephenson fans: Anathem ’s narrator is named “Erasmas.” This is a phonetic representation of the Greek “ήρωάς μας,” meaning “our hero.”

http://bible-api.com/ecclesiastes%203:7

> People are pretty susceptible to passionate speech by charismatic figures; much more susceptible, in fact, than they are to facts. This just seems like an opportunity for racists…

I always thought it was stored in the “angle” of your geodesic. When you come out of the gravity well, your travel through spacetime is angled to be traversing more time relative t…