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We studied him too, he kicks off most of the major anthologies. Seems he's almost universally considered an overlooked founder of analytic philosophy. (There's the famous story abo…

Counterfeit DVD box sets are pretty rampant. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zwa9uKIYhM I remember getting obviously burned DVDs run through terrible label makers bac…

A hint at what wpm I just typed at would be nice. So if I only hit 50 wpm a 50 off to the side or below the dotted line. This is fascinating when picking a liminal wpm. Single hand…

> copyright holders do in fact declare ... and pay taxes on [IP] Or they sell the IP to a shell company in a tax haven and lease it at an artificial price, so the balance sheet sho…

Maybe ransomware. A bit speculative, but my hunch is -- IOT and some other advancements still create opportunities for new DDoS attacks, but attackers herd. And the "X as a service…

Ah. https://redditfavorites.com/ Came up in a random DDG search for something.

Breezewood is mostly fine, you're on a giant empty stretch of road for hours otherwise. If you want a truly dystopian moment, drive I-64 at the border of Kentucky and West Virginia…

I saw but can't now find someone's project to crawl reddit for discussions of products in subreddits like hometheater and buildapc, providing some kind of naive sentiment analysis …

This is weird to read as if it's a sudden new discovery, I had the impression wolbachia was well established as part of the toolkit. Thorough history of mosquito control techniques…

This is a really important puzzle. In other terms, basically the efficient markets hypothesis vs, well, a week of GameStop prices. At certain extremes, a stock price is clearly obj…

I'm optimistic for this area of tech and research in general, but agree we need to stop benchmarking against average human crash rates. Although anyone can be hit at any time, the …

Too longwinded I guess. Absent any counterargument, I stand by the premise that app stores and extension marketplaces are teeming with junk, that curation has failed as a model. It…

More and more I feel like we need another new manifesto. We need to pull people together who have a passion for making the world's computers just work and build a brand around simp…

Reminds me of the quests to recreate the secret recipe for Coca-cola. The secret ingredient isn't orange peel, it's $4 billion a year in marketing.

That tracks with what's written in The Hacker's Diet, and I think it's largely right. If you look at how much running you need to do to burn off a daily burger it's intimidating. T…

This and constant nagging that I'm running out of space (I'm definitely not), and (tightening?) limits on number of machines, had me migrate to Synology Drive this last week. Now I…

I was expecting the same thing, it got me searching to see how much clearance rates have responded to new technologies already. It's not the relationship I expected, clearance rate…

Yeah, it includes mechanical specifications of physical media so, say, alien archaeologists can get data off a VHS. People are reading the title thinking it's about filesystems. It…

And, by implication, they're a massively higher contributor to local pollution. I was surprised to learn that most road pollution is no longer generated by tailpipes, but by the gr…

I like the Coasean analysis. Now someone needs to build the Uber for unifying affected populations to demand rents for suffered negative externalities.

Patenting plants is one reasonable extension, and the one we've gone with. But it wouldn't have been totally crazy if justices had decided that when you sell something that by its …

I had a college radio show when Pandora was starting, and had shockingly responsive conversations with Tim W. about up and coming artists he should include. It was a brief window. …

I tried to get a company name or mailing address out of them once, but they're pretty cagey. They were definitely using a soundboard, they'd repeat phrases that were approximate an…

> Our responsibility is to empower all of those watchdogs, and to listen to them... Naturally they had to block critics like nyttypos on Twitter. Watchdogs for copyediting is obvio…