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The argument is that the cost of dealing with this legislation will result in the cost of internet service going up slightly, e.g. $10/month. This is irrelevant to the wealthy but …

If you'd like yet another somewhat similar inquiry into the information-theory-based definition of life, I'll mention Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle. [1] https://en.wikipedia…

Some advice based solely on my experience, YMMV etc. Re: Mentors - reach out to someone who you enjoyed working with in a previous role, looked up to, and would enjoy working with …

Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA Didn't realize this before watching, but it's interesting that there's an incredibly complicated board state but the game…

Recently watched a related short vice doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDseTCNGyA

Personally, I find that trying to stay away from single-value representations of skills/health/etc is more helpful and facilitates more curiosity. Instead of wondering, "Am I bette…

Maybe an aside, and I don't necessarily disagree that async is sometimes inefficient, but it's more efficient if you bias for reading instead of writing. For example, take 15-20 mi…

What you're saying resonates a lot with me - I feel like I fell into programming (also writing game hacks), and I'm jealous of the passion I observe in others for SWE-specific conc…

I would frame it differently. There seem to be many dysfunctional marriages that are carried by e.g. inertia - and because of this, I do agree that perhaps marriage shouldn't be ta…

We don't currently have the means to live forever, but if you manage to live long enough, you might survive until we do.

Any clue what one of these might cost?

> Compare the intelligence of a cow or pig or similar mammal to an octopus and the mammal will DESTROY the octopus What studies do you have in mind?

Awesome! I'm a little concerned about the pricing though - while lifetime membership sounds great, I'm afraid this could end up something like a "pyramid scheme" where my membershi…

This might be a bit contentious, but there's no top-level comment starting the discussion about regulation of UX patterns. My concerns are mostly those that could apply to related …

The article alludes to this but maybe doesn’t point it out clearly enough: they can only minimize cost in this way _because_ it’s hard to evaluate - otherwise the engineers in ques…

Interesting take from another market leader: https://www.thetradedesk.com/us/knowledge-center/googles-mov...

I agree with the comments positing that persuasion is clearly alive and well, given the enthusiasm of today's e.g. demonstrations. I believe the author's point, however, is that pe…

Semi-related, IMO it's easier to not get siloed, at work and in general, if you position yourself as a math major rather than a CS major. Most people don't realize the overlap, and…

This might be incredibly pedantic, but since this is a mathematical philosophy article, I'm going to go ahead. These aren't "hard" problems, they're simply questions that don't mak…

Listening to Hearts of Space as a child was my first experience with "experimental" music - definitely formative. You can still listen to it online: https://v4.hos.com/home

I agree, but I'm still, probably unwisely, allowing myself some anticipation for Diablo 4.

This is by Gregory Chaitin, who also published a pretty interesting & related book called "META MATH!" [1] I especially like the Turing / Godel equivalency stuff he discusses. [1] …

It'd be really interesting to see more than just averages for rates. Many dev shops I've interacted with are all right around $250/hr here in the US / on coasts, I wonder if there …

To me, the most interesting implication here is that this must not adversely affect Google's ad revenue. If it did, they would surely fix it. This, in turn, means that apparently w…