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Syncing on Apple devices across the board is pretty bad. A great example is the Notes app. It took me a year to convince my wife to migrate our grocery list away from the Notes app…

Wealth inequality is not an important thing to worry about by itself. The Gini coefficient undergoes a U-shape growth curve in economies as they move from under-developed, to devel…

Yes.

Daniel Borkmann is at Isovalent, he is definitely co-creator of eBPF.

"nature.com" made me look because I assumed there was a paper behind this. There isn't. This is an editorial. No thanks. Would the submitter care to put "Editorial:" as a prefix on…

Germany screwed itself by ending natural gas exploration and shutting down its nuclear plants. They’re about to burn more coal and wood this year than they have in years.

Iraq made some sense if you see it as a war to make sure no major energy-capital flows went through the Euro (Iraq started selling their oil in Euros in the late 90s). The US war m…

It locks Germany into its geopolitical position.

I meant users/customers, not employees.

I'm not saying that there aren't dystopian problems in our future, but my bias is that we're actually probably not doing enough, not that we're doing too much. Measuring technology…

I get that Tolkien was a staunch Catholic, but he was also a preeminent philologist trained in a way that few people today are. He was deeply familiar with all forms of human myth.…

This has always been my understanding of Bombadil as well. The most popular/accepted view of who he is among Tolkien-dom that I've heard is that he represents the lands of the West…

My favorite Chen article: Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...

That is not the only thing that has backed the value of money in the history of humanity. It (violence) is arguably the most inferior social mechanism for enforcing value that has …

So gold’s day in the sun from the 15th century to the 1970s was what?

You've just described money. Is BTC good at being money? No. But your argument isn't the reason.

This was pretty much settled long ago according to pot sherd, architectural, and textual analysis. DNA is just the final nail in the coffin.

Not if you're able to influence the market in a meaningful way from your Twitter handle. How is anyone underestimating Twitter's power at this point?

I believe AGI is possible, but the more I study ML the more convinced I am that we don’t know what it (AGI) is. I also, don’t know if I agree that humans have GI (humanity as a who…

Are you reading the deeper lesson though? The individual examples aren't meant to be authoritative. He was trying to illustrate the very thing you are bringing up. Namely that lazy…

Ditto. I'm a heavy(ish) user and I've never tested positive, despite being exposed more than once. Though admittedly I'm very cautious (always wear an N95, et al) and vaccinated.

It sounds like it was motivated by laziness.