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Maybe there are people who would be happier washing their clothes by hand, but I'm sure they're the exception rather than the rule. Most people just don't like doing the shopping, …

Haha, fair enough. :)

Some proof or data to back up the article's claim would be great. I'm not really buying it. If moms auto-like every post, then how is that a relevant signal? Everyone has a mom. Th…

That's interesting, but in that scenario, how important is the composer really? Couldn't we just connect the variable output of the AI to some kind of Mechanical Turk-style focus g…

> While true ... This just broke my brain. I think it's time for me to go to bed...

Is this possible? It doesn't seem like the necessary information is captured in a picture. I don't think there's a person that could tell you whether food in a picture has allergen…

Maybe this has been said already, but one major problem with Twitter is that by default, the average person will publish and share content on it that's a complete waste of time and…

Risk is one of the things that debt can represent, sometimes, but there can be debt that doesn't involve any risk, and there are risks that don't involve debt. What's risky about u…

One caveat to this kind of thinking is that money is fungible. One can easily pay for a vacation or years of eating at nice restaurants every day all in cash, and also go into debt…

I'd be surprised if this house meets state regulations for residential construction in any US state. That'll be one of the biggest obstacles to 3D printed housing in the US. Even i…

Completely agree. I take this one step further and say tablets are probably handicapping your kids in the home. Having no tablets or smartphones available during the PC revolution …

I think this is an example of something machines can't quite do better than humans yet, though it's an interesting problem to solve (trying to analyze how people in general will fe…

I use the JetBrains family of IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, RubyMine, PhpStorm, WebStorm) and I'm really happy with them. I've also been playing around a bit with Atom lately.

This is why no matter how much sense it makes to use something like vim or emacs as your primary development editor, I could never justify the amount of time it would take me to ac…

> Urgh. It has been several years now since I last had to deal with Magento, and nothing I've seen over the years suggests it has got any better. One of their biggest vendors, WebS…

I had intimate knowledge of an Act of Congress and some DOJ seizures that resulted from it years ago, and that's the first time I really experienced what you just described. The ba…

> it's a different system from the server, lots of tricks are needed to make it work invisibly (either with a VM or a lighter equivalent) I used to use Linux for this reason, but i…

I think the market's expectation is that a DNS provider is prepared for a DDoS of any size, but not necessarily any level of complexity, so that's a lot of incentive to talk up the…