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The extent to which the space programs of nation states are little more than fig leafs over what are in reality a bunch of maladjusted homicidal maniacs, and the extent to which th…

Does anyone else find the thought of killing people in position of authority sexually stimulating, or am I just some kind of freak?

Sexual surveillance and repression goes back to the dawn of civilization and the origin of language. Everybody wants to know who is having sex with who. This is, I fear, the ultima…

Your computer has to download the tweet before it runs the tweet. It will be cached on your computer. Compliance with twitter TOS means you have to clear your cache when twitter sa…

Yes, it goes from Excel to Microsoft Project to the plotter to the wall. And then beings the multi-year process of watching the baseline and targets drift away from each other like…

It sounds like suicide by cop, which is a real thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_cop

The Guardian and Salon are two of the worst offenders. I learned a little while ago that Sam Harris took on Salon. I always thought Sam Harris was a blowhard and annoying to listen…

You have left out a very crucial fact which completely destroys your argument: Twitter has no verification process that the tweet was deleted because you're NOT ADVERTISING THE TWE…

If you can get a good toolkit for writing a GLR parser, then people will write their own tokenizers, BNF formal grammars, and plug it into your parser. It would take a single perso…

I can't stop laughing. I think you have to admire the elegance of the concept as performance art though: this is cheap insanity. In fact, I've got to hand it to them, this is the m…

These facts are just wrong. Google and FB both received massive funding early on.

Don't say "we", say "a few very wealthy and powerful individuals who do not represent anyone other than themselves"

I can see why you think that, but I think you're wrong. Blocking ads just means that advertisers will have to get better at providing their audience with quality content. It's the …

> In the current situation, it seems that at the very least we are going to see an increased use of ad blockers, resulting in further damage to internet advertising and national ec…

Our government has been prevented from knocking down whichever door it has wanted to by things like guns and revolutions. The elite have been revealed as perverts and mass murderer…

> Capitalism has been hijacked by a lucrative surveillance project that subverts the “normal” evolutionary mechanisms associated with its historical success and corrupts the unity …

What problems would you rather attack with C + Go vs. a somewhat more mature C + Python?

I'm just posting to say that I agree, and I have nothing else to add to this conversation.

This isn't quite correct; it should go > Then we go to war in order to make sure some other country can't create artificial scarcity of resources, which would reduce the number of …

The problem is the students, obviously. If they cared about their work and their future, they would try harder. But they don't, they just think life is all about gangs and money an…

> Implement thunderbolt? Sorry, that's Intel proprietary, no can do. Sounds like Intel is guilty of "illegal tying". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce) On top of that, …

> implement a set > don't use a hash table > use the stack > complain when language doesn't have tail call wat

> As a matter of fact, the need for proving existence theorems was not felt until the end of the nineteenth century, and I refuse to believe that someone like Cauchy or Riemann did…

I was under the impression that the problem was a corrupt and impenetrable legal system built to erect barriers to entry and protect insiders, the virtue in whose hearts is boiled …