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Fact is the recently elected City council made public drug use illegal: https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/09/seattle-city-council-p... Murdoch and co. will have you believe Seattl…

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That's not the same question though. I've answered those questions for myself, but I couldn't tell you what consciousness is or isn't, because that requires language, and language …

I actually wrote a paper comparing how Tractatus and Godel’s incompleteness theorems approach the concept of self-reference. (I believe it was the final for Philosophy of Mathemati…

I found this piece revolting. The author feigns a conscience so that you too, conscientious engineer, can stomach working for the modern day equivalent of big tobacco. To be clear …

The whole article is written like an ad. I wouldn’t take any of it at face value.

What makes you think YC companies have any different standards than the rest of the corporate world? If anything startups are deliberately held to a lower standard on the justifica…

This comment itself kind of falls into that, isn't it? :p

"More readable code almost always means less efficient code." Can you give examples? I'm not sold that the "low hanging fruit" of readability improvement (empty lines to break up "…

As a personal anecdote, I was a vegetarian for ~3 years from late in high school to junior year of college. It was definitely a valuable experience that afforded me much perspectiv…

Does anyone have data on the departure of executives at other companies, past or present? Of course the reaction is that this is something like an exodus, but I would love to see d…

But he's making the world more "open and connected!" (by bringing internet to third world countries and restricting them to his website...)

Of course. For example, many of the questions for technical interviews involve knowing which data structure to use in a given setting, and applying it to find a solution. The inter…

Facial unlocking programs have this problem too. Just search for "facial unlock racism" and there's pages of results from various sources and years. Software is subject to the same…

While this can easily be reduced to petty arguments and farm animal related epithets, I think this at least a reasonable enumeration of skills one can aspire to learn in their free…

You're right, but I disagree with your argument that: "the 'laws of logic' are universal axioms that would not change." Axioms are not universal and have been modified or discarded…

The issue with tricky algorithms questions is that they often become tests of how well you can keep your cool. I've (and I'm sure others have also) bombed relatively easy questions…

I think that a quick survey of the user would be helpful as well- specifically their experience with programming, and their experience with the language in question.

This is cool! Is similar data available for other legal states? Are you working on implementing similar services for those states?

My experience has been that my friends and I troll each other by submitting endorsements for irrelevant things like "Microsoft Office" or "Public Speaking." I usually spend a few m…

Someone should spend the money to ask him if he thinks the service is worth it, or if he would have used a similar service at any point in his career.

> Soy isn't part of the natural diet for chickens, so feeding it to them means also feeding them antibiotics. Do you have any more info on this? I was under the impression that giv…

I would imagine it would help a lot with learning cultural idioms as well. Given that a large percentage of the mannerisms my friends and I use are copied from TV, it would be inva…

I believe the comment was in regards to time spent on either venture, not the legality of doing both.