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According to the article, this plant would employ 30k-50k people. The secondary effects of these jobs would be equally massive. While I would prefer an American company operating t…

I'm guessing you were thinking mostly about financial and political self-interest (the things we usually classify as "greed") when you wrote this post. But I think there are other,…

I find that you need to explicitly state your intentions ahead of time. Otherwise, people assume the worst, and get defensive right away. Then communication closes down. So my meth…

It shouldn't be about faith. Every "crowd" has all kinds of people, and even the very smartest people aren't always right. By reading critically (and following up with research if …

I don't think it's either. "Scaling" refers to growing the amount of compute power you are using. This change falls into a different bucket, which is making more efficient use of t…

Zen Buddhism is a classic example.

Sorry, but the OP wasn't talking about ipfs at all. He was talking about Cloudflare. Having said that, thanks for the interesting digression. You've made me want to try out ipfs.

Same deal when I flew United the past weekend. Samsung Note 7s were not allowed to be turned on or charged on the plane. I think they are taking their cue from the FAA recommendati…

Whether or not you use an SSG, I find the biggest hurdle is getting/making a good theme for your blog. It looks like this comes theme-included, which is actually a pretty big deal …

Like what?

Have you considered using https://pinboard.in ? It's a great tool for bookmark organization using tagging. I have over 3500 private bookmarks on that site, but I rarely lose links …

Some mechanical keyboards let you configure this with DIP switches on the keyboard itself. My keyboard even came with an extra set of keycaps for swapping the caps lock and left co…

Yeah, it seems like "Another Day, Another Hack" is just the name of the series they use to cover security-breach-related news. It's unfortunate that it confuses the meaning of the …

A desktop PC is more than able to do good speech recognition as long as it's able to train the model for individual voices. Getting good results without training the model for the …

As another "software engineer", I can say that we simply don't ever need a tool like Jupyter for our jobs. It's excellent for exploratory programming, research, and publishing -- b…

Redux tries to enforce a convention that all application state is stored in a single object (the "store") and modified using a single pure function (the "reducer"). These conventio…

While I agree with your assertion that debugging should ultimately happen in the head instead if in the IDE, debuggers can still be useful for console.log folks like us. Because th…

Who would use a beta version of a crypto product in a production setting?

Actually, Amazon already did -- one of the sample Lambda functions you can use is just that. It runs on a scheduled timer, and if I remember correctly, will alert using AWS Simple …

I don't think there can really be a distinction between what art "should be" versus what art "is". You could maybe argue that a particular piece or style of art should be different…

Just do "tar -xf" for all your file extracting needs. The other command-line parameters are pretty much only needed if you want to override the detected compression format.

They lost nothing more or less than some years (or months?) of their lives.

It's true that it doesn't affect our day-to-day life. But I think it is important in the context of being an informed citizen (and, more fundamentally, an ethical person) to have a…

Are you familiar with the Trolley Problem? [0] It's a simple thought experiment, which is intended to make you re-think whether murder is always an evil act. Suppose a trolley is b…

I just want to say, well done on giving your notice. To someone who's never experienced it, it might seem like having no work would be great, but it's actually terrible for our sen…