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What a remarkable testament to the power of automaker advertising that something as banal as riding a bike gets people so upset.

That’s what Evernote did: binary protocol and implementations in a bunch of languages. Their API was apparently easier to develop this way.

“Who needs a neural net? OCaml can already match patterns!”

This is what happens when companies are disorganized and don’t communicate internally.

Nobody said they didn’t?

Considering that The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, I’d say her work has lasting value.

Cool. When will they stop aggregating all of everyone’s data ever?

After this change I really want to develop a native chat application on Windows and OS X. I think it’s almost to the point where someone who did they could make a killing.

It’s heartening to see I’m not the only one with this problem, and also incredibly depressing.

Wealth continues to concentrate upwards, and if you can’t easily find information on your own, I’d be happy to provide sources that show that social mobility is low, and a good pre…

Extend a little empathy once in a while. I promise people aren’t out to get you nearly as much as you seemingly believe.

Too bad that’s incorrect. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crime-and-punishment...

Sometimes people just want someone to listen. Sometimes there’s nothing else you can do.

“Coming up at 11, rich people don’t understand why poor people don’t just stop being poor.”

Life’s work like what, inheriting wealth?

People tend to think that your beliefs drive your actions. So if someone claims to believe one thing, but acts in accordance with other beliefs, what are you going to assume about …

I don’t mean this judgmentally, but how much water do you use? The bulk of residential water use tends to be for landscaping, in particular watering lawns. When my city raised rate…

> I still don't enjoy being squeezed in with thousands of other people. I still don’t enjoy the global mean temperature getting higher and causing flood and famine, but I guess you…

You can do encryption with a pen, paper, and a calculator. The genie is out of the bottle at this point.

There’s also only so much you can realistically do to keep you and/or a child safe in a car accident. Cars are just dangerous, and although safety has improved, slamming into anyth…

US residents pay too much for healthcare because we let healthcare and insurance companies squeeze as much profit as possible from people. It’s fucked up that an unplanned medical …

Lots of meetings can also be a sign of churn. If people can’t make decisions, or consistently flip flop on decisions, it can be reflected in lots of (ultimately pointless) meetings…

I work with people like that. They’re extremely siloed and they make decisions in a vacuum. It always ends up creating problems for everyone else. Then when we actually do have mee…