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Yeah, the phrase "cause harm" carries a lot of affect (e.g. urgency, impatience, panic, outrage, etc.). If we were to have a graph of common word usage and association, the words "…

> Maybe the reactions to this story are even more significant than the story itself. That's the problem though - by focusing undue politicized attention onto an ultimately irreleva…

Well the strategy was first to get the Chinese people addicted to wealth before moving on to discuss the issues of human rights (imaging trying to sanction a poor communist country…

I'm all for openness and transparency, but wouldn't an increase in US refusal to play with China just lead to more censorship and oppression by the communist Chinese government? Co…

What if the problem with open-source not making money isn't the open-source part, but the money part? Our current economic system focuses on money as a medium of "equivalent exchan…

Free speech v. public safety is a touchy subject that pits the moral pillars of liberty/oppression against care/harm. However, before we lose ourselves to moral outrage for one sid…

The Book of Why DOES have a section on climate change toward the end - he actually uses climate change to illustrate the idea of counterfactuals and even provides an example about …

The real problem here is that there the asymmetry in machine learning capabilities between big companies and everyday consumers. I think what we all will need in the nearby future …

It's an user-experience problem: for an audiobook, Book of Why is quite dense in formula that are hard to visualize when spoke as words. For example, consider what happens if we tr…

Yes, the article even has a section where they straight up say "Einstein was right". The title of the article "Colliding neutron stars falsify some theories of gravity" is accurate…

Hmmm... storyboarding in software design, this is definitely a new idea for me. Going to try it out in my hobby projects and see where it takes me.

Honestly, the best route IMO is to actually maintain an open-source portfolio of work. This obviously isn't feasible or possible for everybody, but if you can contribute to OSS, do…

The article actually does actually mention something along the lines of "Lovecraft's literary legacy is threatened in the 50s by his rumored homosexuality and today by his latent r…

Honestly, having experimented extensively with VR, I highly doubt its best applications will be in gaming. At its core, gaming draws people for at least one of the following reason…

Honestly, though, Tomster v. electrons-circling-nucleus branding aside, both ember and react are currently experiencing a lot of community-driven convergence in core philosophy. Fo…

> Joining LinkedIn Great, I'm glad Ember is gaining more traction in enterprise... but what does this mean for things like Fastboot, Ember 3.0, glimmer 2.0, ember-cli 3.0, and the …

Thanks for all the work you and the good folks at Dockyard put into Elixir Phoenix and Ember.js, my entire stack nowadays is run with Ember in the front and Phoenix in the back, so…

Or it could be that tons of girls get sold into taking up the tech field at a young and impressionable age by presidential speeches, books telling them to "lean in", and articles l…

Honestly I don't have an opinion on the creepiness / necessity of riot doing this... but anyone else notice how common the dichotomy between "forced politeness" and "free toxicity"…

He doesn't even have to hang out with peers, one simple search across some popular job site nowadays (e.g. glassdoor) will immediately land you with a decent salary amount for your…

> evaluate the candidate But candidate evaluation is not an objective business, one company's perfect candidate might be complete trash at another firm. A company's interview proce…

Actually, if you look at their numbers (or the summary numbers provided by the top-voted comment), the statement "women on github are more competent than men" seems to be a result …

Same here, my best projects are the ones that were banged out over at most a week or so (then possibly supported with minor fixes over time). Still though, every shitty cancerous h…

Because creating a self-driving car is an extremely creativity-intensive exercise that demands "smartness"... but smartness doesn't add linearly (or, I could posit even monotonical…