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> The work was being done, for free, by passionate people. The person leading it stepped down. Matt then stopped the initiative presumably because it didn't seem worth picking some…

Ya, I was expecting to see something not very impressive at that link, but was pleasantly surprised. My chair is about $7k and while this one doesn't look like it would work for me…

No need to wonder: https://automattic.com/board/

This isn't true at all. The vacation policy is "Our time off policy is short: take the time that you need" and "There is no minimum or maximum, but we encourage you to take at leas…

Appreciate that you wrote this up. As someone just wrapping up a sabbatical where I have ignored a lot of what is going on this looks helpful. Thanks!

A bot scraping content will tend to go deep into the archives and hit all content systematically. Caching isn't as effective if you hit everything whereas real users will tend to h…

Ya seems like it’s this and that’s an awesome name!

Sounds like there are 34 counts of falsifying business records so it is probably more than just that one payoff.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Strogatz Chaos theory and deterministic systems are a fascinating vantage point for thinking about the dynamics of large computer systems. Thinking …

And there is a list right? https://github.com/search?q=license%3Acc0-1.0&type=Repositor... All repos with a particular license.

I think you are seriously overestimating the utility of these right now. It is not just about cost, they are more limited than wheelchairs in many ways.

This is basically https://www.beeminder.com/ (Started by friends)

In my experience (11 years fully remote/distributed growing from 90 to 2000 employees) my first impression is it sounds like you’re doing too much synchronous. Async is so efficien…

Agree that this is an interesting line of discussion. I think you missed a few options of why USD are more democratic. You can also: - run for office - organize people politically …

> they are explicitly adding bias here. All search engines are explicitly biased. That is the point, they generate a ranking of results. Heck even how you tokenize text is an expli…

It seems more naive to think search algorithms are ever "unbiased". The whole point is to find something by ranking them and applying a bias.

I kinda doubt the US govt cares about DDG. Also, the US/UK gov is not an entirely unreasonable starting point for a list. There are also lots of academic researchers, media, etc. B…

The people writing the search algorithms decide, just like they decide what a "good" algorithm is.

Exactly. Every search algorithm requires making judgements about how and what to rank. Explicitly marking sites as "disinformation"/"spam"/"seo" is exactly a part of building a goo…

> To the people downvoting me here: can you list some figures who have been protesting authoritarianism who are left-coded in contemporary American society? Martin Luther King.

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Everything you just said also applies to amputating a limb. Or cutting out a cyst. Those seem like much closer analogies than a person in a coma.

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> Not sure exactly what you mean with social conservatism "This is also why social conservatives don't like it when scientific progress makes sex safer or better. Sex outside of th…