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The flipped iceberg is beautiful to see. The Antarctic iceberg crack that developed a fork isn't. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39779761

> I don't see how you avoid some company reading your email and still have automatically indexed, infinitely scalable email in-boxes. It's possible to with encrypted search.

> most programming languages don't even give you a good way to express the invariants you are trying to maintain (except good ol' Ada). What does Ada do that helps with this in way…

I couldn't find in the source code where types are inferred.

This is an interesting approach https://www.rosieleizrowice.com/blog/5minutejournal

Overstock accepted Bitcoin since 2014 https://www.overstock.com/bitcoin and now trades its own stock on it https://www.wired.com/2016/12/overstock-com-issues-stock-via...

How is this different than CryptDB? https://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/

Identical code folding is slick. It's the opposite of using macros, and is harder to fold code than to generate it.

This made me find and read "Growing a language" https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf "In a race, a small language with warts will beat a well designed langu…

What's with the branch instructions "Branch with Link" and "Branch with Exchange"? What do they do? I haven't seen anything like this before. I see some explanation in https://azer…

> Culture creation/management is taught in business school Creation/management and being taught aren't exactly the same. I think you mean "there are ways to manage well".

True. It's probably a sign of good writing if you can elicit such a response. "The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sam…

"Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace" is better than "The Elements of Style". https://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-12th/dp/0...

Please don't generalize without evidence to back it up. The first version of the Linux kernel wasn't written by a team, for example, and writing an OS is clearly impressive. Linux …

Why is it "clearly virtual reality related"?

Maybe because Peach became Japan's first airline to accept Bitcoin. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-22/peach-bec...

I dropped all except Amazon, because books are cheaper there. The cockroach is Amazon. Google was surprisingly easy to drop. I use DuckDuckGo and quit GMail. Microsoft I dropped mo…

Hi, I would like you to buy my first product for something like $1.99. Where can I send you a link in private?

If you want to keep a list like this online I wrote a web app that keeps lists.

I threw together something small that works for me if anyone wants to try it.