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The article raises awareness of a pitfall that is easy to fall into, and that will only appear at runtime.

Not your keys, not your coins.

Is it really that much for the browser vendors to support TypeScript? Then, the only reason to compile would be to optimize for production by removing the excess code of the data-t…

Sweet! 'never' seems to have historical roots in IE's ancient 'unknown' js type.

+ And worth re-reading as well. Totally generic to field but definitely applicable here.

Why call it "NixOS" when it seems to be a package manager?

Great in-depth write-up!

My two cents: Formal Methods (e.g., "Z" and Promela) and also, teamwork stuff (from old days, Team Software Process, and any more modern material like that).

A page of practical examples that are easy to understand and clearly offer advantages would help for those with limited time.

It would be really nice to not always have to do a worker thread or iframe to get multi-threading. Web apps with more involved and/or extensive ui's would benefit a lot from this i…

Kind of surprising that the article doesn't mention the profits and sway that Big Tech has to afford the approaches he describes. Borrow money very cheaply, buy back stock, profit …

+1 Also, the author of the article was able to do the job in an article that one can read in just a few minutes - a rare feat.

Lots of good data in this article.

It is a day of true irony: https://twitter.com/RichardHeartWin/status/13823814747338219...

Girard's theory also applies very well to mass culture movements for social and political change. Shameless plug: My book rests in large part upon his theories: https://www.nottoto…

So, macOS keychain simply doesn't have the ability to store in secure enclave?

BAT rewards have been live on seemingly all reddit comments for a year or so now.

An oldie but a goodie: https://labs.detectify.com/2014/12/08/hijacking-of-abandoned...

"Distributed computing project, Rosetta@Home, is using the BOINC infrastructure to model covid-19 proteins that may be drug targets. " - https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f…

Not surprising; the Fed is intent on ever-inflating the housing asset bubble.

Interesting research on stock-to-flow: https://medium.com/digitalassetresearch/plan-b-is-now-plan-a...

I am enjoying "Quantum Computing for Everyone". It's by an MIT math professor, and is certainly for "everyone" . . . who wants to learn quantum techniques for linear algebra (e.g.,…

Well-said.

On macOS, brow.sh doesn't make it clear as to what hyperlink I am focused on when browsing. Also, it doesn't handle terminal shutdown; it leaves Firefox running but won't reconnect…