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ah ok. I thought the board decided to remove Altman, then Brockman quit in response, so there was no deliberation about his (Brockman's) removal.

ah ok makes sense. I thought he just resigned in response to Altman's ouster, so there was no board decision to remove Brockman.

wait...isn't "the decision" referred to in the parent comment about the removal of Altman?

New evidence was released in the DOJ vs Google case. The judge for the case called this evidence "embarrassing" to Google. It's a bad headline. There's no a complete sentence here.…

In light of this fact, I'd guess "their" preferred pronouns are he/him/his.

So put more simply, what you're saying is that the reader can tell by the context. When the writer says "this begs the question", if that phrase is followed by an actual question, …

It does make sense. "Begging the question" is a term of art from philosophy meaning to assume the thing you set out to prove--e.g. God exists because the Bible says so, and the Bib…

exactly correct. The question is not: "was software bloated in the 90s". It's: "given that hardware capability increased in by several orders of magnitude, did software quality/spe…

I haven't read War and Peace, nor (presumably) have I tried this app, but I will gladly come into the comments and shit on it. Gotta love hacker news.

"the news media is a for-profit business whose interests are tangential to telling the truth" And yeah I guess I wasn't that surprised by MSNBC, but definitely didn't expect the pe…

I'd buy that except the major media outlets are the corporate power.

Manufacturing Consent is a book that had a big impact on how I perceive media, and I think it's wise to examine who's saying something and what their motives are, but I don't total…

yeah it's a questionable claim for sure. This was a widely cited poll that asserted for the first time ever, the majority of Americans mistrust the mainstream media: https://www.ax…

right exactly, that's what I was trying to say. The constriction happens mainly in the imagination rather than in the writing. That's the theory at least.

I love the series but I think this is an astute observation...though I have trouble articulating why I agree with this. I wonder if the world constricts or if its possibiilties jus…

Nice to see something about Gene Wolfe here. I'm a big fan. I just finished re-reading The 5th Head of Cerberus and have been eyeing The Book of the New Sun series on my shelf. Pro…

I seriously doubt a bunch of first-year cadets with a looming calculus exam sat around in their dorms thinking "what would Trump do?". Yours is one several comments here expressing…

considering iraq wmd, the financial collapse, the bailout, syria, libya, russia-gate, and the pandemic (among other things) I think the x-axis should go back further and resemble a…

the cadets — all but one of whom are first-years... Please read more closely.

Agree. The argument seems to be: 1. individuals are blasted with a firehose of data 2. individual-focused systems to manage this data--like GTD--are ineffective because the left ha…

Yes exactly. I was wondering if I was misunderstanding something. If lactose intolerance (or malabosorbtion or whatever) is the problem, that seems unrelated to an 11am cutoff time…

The video's title is "Why Italians Don't Drink a Cappuccino After 11am". Seems like most people in these comments got it. What's the point of the video if not that?

ha ha from the "sic" I can't tell if you object to the verbification of the word or if you're just British. Nice tip though. Had no idea about this feature.

That's true, though I wonder if the life expectancy table mentioned in the article accounts for increasing life expectancy.