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I believe other commenters exist. I don’t believe any of the comments any of us are making are useful. We are all here because commenting feels productive, even though it totally i…

Yeah, a rare few philosophers did some precursor work to my field before it was its own field of study. Well enough. Would someone else have done it if they hadn’t? Perhaps a mathe…

No, I mean the laws that would still be making planets orbit the sun even if none of us were here to experience it, and indeed which had been doing for billions of years before we …

In other words, philosophy is a form of mental “self-stimulation.” It feels like you’re accomplishing something when actually you aren’t. That matches my views at any rate. Not tha…

Fundamental or emergent? What does that even mean? Like nearly everything else in reality, you’d expect consciousness to be continuous, not integral. We know there are diminished s…

300 positions is not going to significantly alter ebay’s profitability. It seems more likely to me that this is an occasion to drop a group of low performers all at once, or to mak…

I think from the trajectory it’s pretty obvious who will be on top in five years. Whether the intercept is now, a month from now, or half a year away doesn’t matter all that much.

Another explanation, which seems more likely to me, is that these folks are simply uninformed.

Alternate headline in our universe: “Chrome increases use of non-constraint resource by 10% to increase security.”

I don’t believe we all make our own luck nor do I discount the role of luck in my own success. However the model used in this study is very weak and does not supply much evidence, …

My favorite memes from this generator. The famous one: https://goo.gl/images/UPXMB9 Less famous but perhaps even more deserving: https://goo.gl/images/HkkLyE

Site has bad ads that will hijack mobile user agents.

But ... chromium is not embedded in the OS?

A 1.2x speedup affecting a primitive operation is huge.

Losses of ten percent on these nutrients do not seem like that big of a deal. Worst case we can enrich. Climate change is an enormous problem. But the nutrient levels in rice are a…

Getting married is expensive? How so?

You won’t, because you were smart and rented instead. :)

Is that commonly done? I would guess this means the withdrawn paper contains an egregious error. Does anyone know?

Go has been out for almost a decade and they’re still working on the package management story.

At least in US law, it is incumbent on the parties of a contract to understand it. If they sign without understanding, that’s on them. Terms of use are a contract between you and a…

Food and water are pretty cheap these days in advanced countries. Very few people have trouble getting enough of them. Similarly, crime has been plummeting in most areas during the…

The people on the standards committee, at least for C++, tend to be heavy users of the language.

Nobody doubts he knows what he is talking about. The question is whether he’s making his points effectively (no).

“We don’t have to pay attention to it because it’s important to our political enemies.” Picture a man standing in the middle of a track as a 100 car train barrels down the track to…

Did the islands pay for these tunnels themselves? How? What is the payoff period (I.e how long until the economic value of the tunnels exceeds their costs?).