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Everything you said is actually true of Org. It is a markup language that looks like plain text but is far more capable.

It does everything Markdown can and much more. And it's older. Emacs isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it was a mistake by Github to latch onto Markdown. Now we are stuck with such …

This talk already happened but for some reason it's not posted. Very odd.

Slowness and memory bloat is the main problem of Thunderbird. I don't know what the cause is, but it is frustrating that there are no full-featured open-source mail apps that have …

The original headline is sensationalistic and referencing a specific language learning product so I didn't include it. But this is some interesting research.

Rather overstated. How you perceive the wavefunction has no bearing on how it works. But it is a valid to be concerned about quantum woo which deliberately misapplies quantum mecha…

This defeats the entire original appeal of Twitter, which was to avoid the ginormous walls of text that Uncle Rico would put on his wall talking about his love for Jesus.

Wallets do not have to have 2fa. A currency could force them to have it. Interestingly enough, one of crypto's biggest critics, Elizabeth Warren, has also been after Wells Fargo fo…

Coins could be made to require two different keys to perform operations. Social engineering attacks getting people to divulge their private single keys are a huge method of crypto …

Coins should have 2FA themselves. Without it, theft is obviously far easier.

Even the most rinky-dink banks have 2FA. Crypto is eventually going to consume itself once enough marks realize they will never make money from it.

I largely agree with this. But one thing that better AI has revealed is that a lot of human performance is also bullshit. If ChatGPT can pass an MBA final exam, then this would sug…

I've seen this as well. VCs are actually terrible at their investments by and large. They mostly use gut instinct or personal networking as their determiner of whether to invest in…

It's also that good marketing of a product is probably more integral to its success than its engineering. There are so many stories of superior technologies failing because of bad …

"Nate Fick, the inaugural US ambassador at large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, on Saturday announced the hack of his personal account (not the government agency one) with - of…

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is going to become a lot more common.