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You can make anything shallow by just not thinking about it. Conversely, the way things become deep is because we intellectualize them.

Indeed, I think Instagram may be all they have left, brand-wise.

What a dismal idea that a four-year-old device is non-functional and in need of "reviving."

FTA: > In late July, the Metro Council approved new zoning and related restrictions on data center development and implemented a moratorium on new permit approvals to run through D…

I recommend touching grass.

No, this is more like checks and balances: the state, the public, and corporations are kept in check when two of them join together to oppose the third.

What I think is nice is that the political parties opposed to data center development are actually taking concrete steps, exercising specific powers, to advance their goals. So muc…

I'm mostly replying to your "standing on the shoulders of giants" part, when in some cases, the giant is the work you did in the past and forgot about :)

FWIW, you may enjoy https://www.argmin.net/p/lore-laundering-machines

I was reading another source that claimed this example was inspired by an existing (rational polynomial) example from the literature (created in 1999 by a Russian mathematician Vit…

I think one counterpoint here is that you can still get value in using FHE in settings that don't involve scaling the number of users (e.g. B2B, public/private collab).

IMO a big unanswered question in FHE (which is my field so I care about the answer) is key management. If you have a service with lots of different users, and each user requires 10…

> gaining any sort of insight The server providing the FHE-based service does not gain any sort of insight. This is a key point: only the client can see the output of the computati…

There is also Michael Lewis's book "Who Is Government?" if you want more meaningful stories.

People do this all the time https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1iu44ub/up... https://usafacts.org/government-spending/ https://sankeymatic.com/gallery/federal-budget…

Discovery is the entertainment for the rest of us.

FTA: > the number 12 features heavily in the Bible: Jacob’s 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 apostles and the crown of 12 stars in the Book of Revelation are just a few exa…

Call me grumpy, but numerology does not make architecture more beautiful.

In my view, LinkedIn has never really been a place for serious discussion.

I heard someone say recently that one reason tech sucks is because the sociopathic narcissists domesticated the hackers.

I think I agree, the FAR bigger impact on my book's sales was Google search deciding not to surface it in search results. Presence on pirate websites had no effect, and eventually …

The main function of copybara is not moving code but modifying code to make it suitable for a different repository structure, build system, etc.

There are at least some technological solutions here, such as anonymous credentials. [1] Modern versions of this technique allow one to associate metadata (like a proof of age exce…

For our situation, building a foundation of trust in our community is more important than attracting as many contributors as possible. If a one-time face-to-face introduction is in…