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Is there evidence that plants feel pain or that bugs do not? I don't know of any, but I would definitively be interested as that could change my view. I want to go wherever the evi…

Would you say intelligence is the most important factor when determining whether it is ethical to cause suffering? Is it more ethical to cause suffering to an unintelligent person,…

Are friendliness and loyalty important ethical factors? Is it more ethical to cause suffering to an unfriendly and disloyal person than a friendly and loyal one?

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I hope this update introduces global preferences. Keeping preferences synchronized between different workspaces can be a real chore.

Small correction. Although many people think that Hal Finney could have been the creator of Bitcoin, the matter is far from settled. He even denied it himself before he passed.

Here's a version that doesn't punish ad-blockers: https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/20/twitter-testing-new-ways...

Feature addiction is real. This post points to perverse economic incentives as being one possible cause, but I have also seen this happen in open-source projects. It's a matter of …

For years, I have been using the Inbox Zero method ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UjeTMb3Yk ) to stay sane. It really does help. I regularly empty my inbox while others seem s…

A friend of mine was considering building an anonymous forwarding service and ran into this same question. He also considered allowing custom domains, but if a custom domain is use…

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