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Why do you think understanding math requires hard work?

Hail Eris

We must act now, and let the billionaire class play the Most Dangerous Game. It's our only chance of survival!

$ whois a1.6z.com

I intended that as a reference to an XKCD strip[0]. Folks often talk about public goods like scientific research, as if the "real stuff" couldn't possibly happen without private in…

(arxiv.org is not archive.org if someone wants to fix the title. both are absurd creations that can't possibly exist, though.)

I found Spinoza and Wittgenstein comprehensible. I've found many other philosophers not so. My comment is not satire.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of the most accessible pieces of philosophy ever written. I recommend it. For an even more accessible view into Russell and Wittgenstein, and well, …

On what basis can you compare a writer/editor from GMG with the private equity group that purchased his employer? Are you saying that we can't trust his motives and competence, bec…

Barstool is referenced more than once in the piece, but not directly by name. Deadspin did not fail, it was murdered. And I know you aren't saying it directly, but this really shou…

A crawler has two high level options: parse the page, or render the page. Most of our parser-based crawling is done by Heritrix (crawler.archive.org) and most of our render-based c…

A five minute outage of the point-of-sale system during the lunch rush can easily cost even the smallest of restaurants several hundred dollars. True, most websites do not have thi…

Website: Help me relate this to the Web of Trust

Yes, that is the core thesis of the article. For the last 30 years, that tiny fraction (0.1%, correcting what I assume was a typo/misread) has seen their overall share grow. Thirty…

Was the lesson that there's a fortune to be made in software maintenance?

Overall crime rate in the US (everywhere?) has decreased since the 1970s or so. There is speculation it had to do with lead paint. There has not been a single "mass shooting" in Au…

I mean, you can call the APIs locked down if you insist, but SaaS is SaaS. Would you count S3 as a locked down API, for example? OpenStack's Swift (and plenty of other products) wi…

Indeed, Federation was only a part of their Enterprise offering. :rimshot: It is only Slack-to-Slack, so it is not interoperable in that way. Shared channels are a thing now too, a…

Seems like Slack figured out how to make a lot of money out of interoperable groupware. If they'd been slower at it, I'd still be saying they're an acquisition target for those com…

AOL bought them. Slow burn.

Slack has the saving grace of optionally supporting an XMPP gateway, for those still committed to that dream. For now. (I sincerely hope this comment isn't too prescient.)

The article says it's about shopping experience, but I would be surprised if they aren't also looking at warehouse logistics. Put the clipboard into a HUD, etc.

Some societies seem to focus more on individual success than community survival. I want to live in a society that is obsessed with creating a future where every member can thrive. …

You're not generally wrong about tone. But: > He has stressed, for over half a century, the importance of the treatment and access of information, which turns out to be the top pri…

I would love to see more of the interview, with however much polish you feel appropriate! I will mildly argue the case for posting raw footage with a link I posted elsewhere, the r…