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One of the profound contributions of Christianity, corroborated in other wisdom traditions, is the assertion that every single one of us ignorantly does irreparable harm to others …

You're partaking of the spoils of your ancestors, and the material losses they caused can be directly traced to the living citizens of Haiti today. It's not really that much about …

It's important not to treat all porn equally, but I think it is fairly safe to say that much porn was not obtained with the full consent of the people depicted in it, or with compl…

Part of his technique is to plant tall shade trees on every street, shading both streets and houses.

"That, not exploiting people, is the defining quality of people who become billionaires from starting companies." This is one of the sentences in the essay that most reveals Graham…

Did you consider Step Functions for taming some of this complexity?

Still confused about how micropayments for content would work practically. Either you have to wait at least until the next block is produced to verify that payment has received bef…

This doesn't seem that "jaw dropping." Hans Rosling was saying this for at least a decade prior to this, that global population would peak around 10B and decline thereafter. That s…

Those are three anecdotes, and at least two of them are not as stark as described. The data scientist's timing was bad and his prior relationship with several stakeholders was alre…

All it takes is one accidental sneeze in a grocery store for a face shield to become useful.

What was the process of registering a domain name at that time? I've often dreamed about going back in time to when I was a kid and registering a bunch of domains before 1995. What…

Pretty ironic that he later came to call maximizing shareholder value "the dumbest idea in the world." https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximiz...

Several highly-educated Mainland China associates and colleagues have shared such thoughts with me and expressed general disdain for the HK protestors.

The Arctic World Archive description says: "The film technology relies on silver halides on polyester. This medium has a lifespan of 500 years as measured by the ISO; simulated agi…

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. It's good to point out the positive potential uses as well as the negative.

Seems like they could greatly reduce fraud by using RFID stickers to authenticate manufacturer-authorized products.

These kinds of systems tend only to work for people who don't need to coordinate their schedule with a significant other. Using online synchronized tools was the only way to preven…

The problem with the Lockean conception of rights is that merely improving some natural resources doesn't necessarily entitle a person to claim ownership. It doesn't factor in any …

There is an easy solution to this that has been around for a long time. What most people do is park on the outskirts of town, where there tend to be lots of park and ride lots, the…

FYI 1password just released an excellent Chrome extension that makes all their important functionality accessible to all platforms that Chrome runs on.

The IP geolocation database they are querying is returning a 429 too many requests error.

One aspect of his argument that seems insufficiently explored is an apparent assumption that governance is primarily a binary state, either present or absent. It's important to rec…

Graham's casual dismissal of 'useless' theology demonstrates a complete lack of awareness of the demise of the secularization hypothesis.

There's nothing preventing a contract from adding fallback modes that require interaction from human agents. Indeed, most of the more high-assurance contracts will probably require…