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The bigger problem right now are the tiny data caps. Allowing users to use 1TB a month of 4G data would be a much bigger game changer.

The only way to truly have a fair fight would be to accurately model the limits of human capacities. How fast can humans move the mouse and at what accuracy? How fast can they type…

It amazes me that anytime something goes wrong with the governement, someone says: we should get rid of the government. How about we work to improve it instead?

The problem is that there's not one definition of middle class. Most Americans think that they're middle class, whether they make $22k or $200k: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/…

No, digital preservation is much harder than most people think. Digital media degrade too. Hard disks, optical media and magnetic tape all degrade over time. Paper and film are fai…

This reminds me of this quote from historian Carlo Cipolla in Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: "In preindustrial Europe, the purchase of a garment or of the cloth for a garment r…