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I've never read this before, but it offers a unique perspective that might have convinced me to be less damning of tables in place of CSS.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This seems like a legitimate opinion to me.

This guy is excellent. I recommend his first novel, "We the City," and you might also want to check out a literary form he renamed and whose revival he spearheaded, "small fates." …

Definitely my favorite one. Most of the others I clicked on were very gimmicky.

Well, that's not entirely fair. Sure, civilization has largely made mankind more peaceful, but Progress is still driven by violence. There was even a link on here recently about ho…

Thanks for clarifying his position. I didn't mean to suggest that he intended it to be anything other than a backup plan, but my wording might have been ambiguous because others, l…

I don't mean that communism worked, but that Lenin achieved what he wanted as far as actual revolution is concerned. What you said is true though, and I think it has to do with the…

I'm also wondering this. I have not seen an OS superior to *NIX systems, UNIX in particular, when you add the context of era.

BBSses, call waiting, Radio Shack, Commodore 64... Damn man, you hit all the points.

But many people don't realize that this kind of idiosyncratic asshole-ishness is how a lot of successful rebels / revolutionaries work, cultural and political. Lenin is a great exa…

I'm pretty critical of technology and modernity in general, and this Cult of Elon is a large part of the reason I dislike the man and his endeavors. It has nothing to do with his i…

I've also seen a fair amount of people actually cognizant of the dangers our technological society poses. It's not the majority, but there are far more people here than most discus…

Well, he's kind of egotistical, something even his supporters know well. He tends to be a bottleneck for the organization's operations.

How was Deep Springs? A friend of mine told me about it and visited the campus ("campus"?), because he considered going, but he never did. I'm interested in hearing what someone wh…

I've heard this a lot and first just dismissed it as a conspiracy theory. Is there actually any substance to these thoughts, or are they only speculation?

Maybe we're speaking past each other or using terms with different definitions. Either that or you're arguing from a sort of Cartesian standpoint. Because you're question has obvio…

> Google researcher Quoc Le says Google’s big translation upgrade could also lead to improved relations between people and machines. Why does he think this?

> the only thing that makes sense is to keep living like we are the only life in the universe uh...we aren't.