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The Economist is a prime example that quality still sells, and always will. Even their new daily newsletters are top-notch. IMHO they get right what most "old media" are getting wr…

I don't think that's feasible either on a large scale. How about this strategy: 1. Pick the top three offenders (not in the same industry). 2. For each offender, find their cash co…

What a great case for pure research: > "He was a whiz with formulas and I think [his aim was] to construct those near counter-examples to Fermat's last theorem. So he developed a t…

So... the Internet.

A growing millionaire class is not mutually exclusive with consolidation of wealth, if growth of millionaire class is less than reduction in middle-income class.

How do I access this from my phone? Same with other open source solutions... the only way to open it on my phone is to trust an unknown app developer to open it for me. I trust GNU…

It's really turning out to be a beautiful general-purpose language as well. I've been playing it for a few days now, and it's such a joy to work with. So many great forward-thinkin…

this is great! -- would be nice to add categories / filters. Also interesting if each story had a 'stats' page with some numbers so it's not so much a black box.

Tangential pet peeve: but this kind of thinking, while noble in principle ("let's not waste resources / brain power on what doesn't matter"), tends to lead to stagnation, not innov…

And who would you trust with manufacturing and programming such a chip?

And security. The biggest problem of course is that this a field ripe with potential for abuse... there's a fine line between a personalized book recommendation service, and a mass…

Which leads to an unsettling thought: > And culture builds on culture. (...) That cumulative process is what allows for the civilization that we now live in, but it raises a very i…

> It's not just useful for convincing other, but also to notice when you’re being manipulated. In my experience (having started uni in the humanities), this way of thinking (which …

Agreed. This is the crux of the problem: if we're worrying about this leading to an "underclass"... does anyone think its illegality will prevent the ultra-wealthy from funding thi…

Only one point to nitpick: let's stop spreading the "RSS is dead" meme. It's not. RSS/Atom are alive and well. Google reader != RSS. These standards are open and simple enough for …

Problem is phone manufacturers have a vested interest in making the web experience sub-optimal (and even limit developers' means of building a proper mobile browser, like Apple).

From a discussion in /r/rust. Great overall discussion about the benefits of Haskell-like abstractions. This example almost looks like magic, it really helped me understand the pow…

Be well versed in genetics / molecular biology! - If I had the time to finish school, I'd double in biology / math or CS. Man will that be a killer combo when that kid is 30. It fe…

But that could never happen to us, right? > Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed mil…

It's not a dissenting opinion, it's plain false. What he's thinking of is dissociative drugs. Even at very high doses of psychedelics, you remain perfectly aware that you are tripp…

Minor pet-peeve. But we should probably refrain from immediately jumping to "drug cartel" examples. It only further perpetuates the meme that privacy is only something criminals an…

Hey, look at the bright side, at least yours didn't turn out to be stage IIIc cancer, after three months and two doctors assuring me "You're young! It's probably nothing." Even wit…

Same, I've had co-workers laugh at my crazy key bindings, but by comparison, whenever I have to code on my Mac (which I've not customized, or someone else's computer, I wonder how …