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The design is clean and free of clutter. Please keep it this way. Sadly, though not your fault, the rate of cumulative quantity of garbage output from news companies, and the gener…

"Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies wil…

In South Africa, our family troll past-time at parties was to re-label wine we brought. We used the same wine everytime (our personal favourite) and disguised it with some fake fan…

That is an ok thing to desire. Personally, I would find living in a homogenous community preferable. I want a peaceful life, among reasonable people who moderate themselves. I am t…

Not ought but must . It's a fundamental concept in system security known as as Kerckhoffs's Principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity The rationale is t…

> “I’ve never seen a server set up like that.” Probably only uses Microsoft Windows Server 2012.

> It feels like we’re often treating symptoms like problems Agreed. A just society requires that we assign positions on the basis of merit. But to obtain the skills and knowledge t…

Maybe I was wrong but here are the reasons for the condemnation 1. propagating falsehoods, or flaws in published work without correcting or refuting their validity, claims etc. by …

That in a nutshell is why I said Java is a horrible language. That said, people with a strong preference for a particular language are comparable to religious fanatics. A good engi…

... thereby exonerating Facebook from the racial discrimination imputed to its advertising problem. Are you really suggesting that platform providers are fully accountable for the …

Java? What a horrible language.

I don't use FB (privacy concerns and commercialization of human beings) so give the interested source benefit of the doubt. So FB has made an oversight. The engineers and designers…

Caucasians are a category that can be selected from that list too, right? So, the article lead should be ammended from: "Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hisp…

Here is the ideal of what every site should look like: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com edit: Seriously, why does a site need to be like a fucking pop-up book?!

>keep the "secret recipe" to ourselves >Everyone will have a list like that You and/or your publishers are terrible human beings.

As a former philosophy student, I disavow philosophy for its uselessness. Save for ethics and a few niche topics of inquiry where it has practical utility, its only function is to …

On replication, this same criticism has recently been directed at physics, chemistry and biology, among others. [1] Psychology, with view to its practical (non-research) use has no…

Related to biases are fallacies in argument as illustrated (in a less serious but instructive manner) here: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9

In userspace this is generally true, and it sucks because "good taste" should really be an engineering determination not compromise to human laziness and mediocre slackers.

A professor of mine in my first year of college gave a lecture on Determinism and Free Will. His thesis was basically what you described above: subtle yet gradual determination of …

I stopped using Facebook and mobile two years ago. I lost contact with people and discovered who my true friends who still wanted my company. I think it was the right decision. I a…

> Seems like the kind of thing they'd do Forced to do by Microsoft C and C++ that mangle names.

C has no such keywords. Why the need for this hackery? Curious also if putting that in a header and including it in a C++ program even compiles without leading to undefined behavio…