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Say that I am building an app that leads to real world interaction, potentially with strangers. Clearly a real name policy is not a good way to make these interactions safer, but w…

Yawn. Wake me when you can actually mine cryptocurrency using this (Although if anyone wants to build something similar, the lovense toys are actually a pretty good choice. Just se…

Street art is supposed to be ephemeral and free. The people who put it inside frames and sell it for $200,000 are the real destroyers

Any advice if you really do want to produce a cheap, disposable product? I’ve seen a ton of postmortems about what not to do, but few write-ups on what to do

The value of bitcoin, as with other currencies, is the value people believe it holds. More concretely, this would be the value of goods or services you can exchange it for today, a…

I found that number surprising, although I also know very little about what it takes to manufacture things. Any idea what the employee breakdown looks like in terms of profession a…

IMO there are some extremely questionable design decisions in 11. Some of these are just ugly (like the super bold date on the calendar icon) or wasteful of space (like the headers…

Full steam ahead with decriminalization of possession/use, and with regulated markets for psychedelic and most stimulants However after seeing how business behaves when it can sell…

I'd argued that heavy regulation has been just as important. For example, how many other products besides cigarettes have to carry a warning over half of their packaging? Also taxa…

All used deliberate scarcity, a large number of product editions, and rapid product cycles to create a collectors market and ultimately create the impression of value. It is also d…

With the nuke mania of the early Cold War, I'm surprised that the military never tried creating a nuclear version of Project HARP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP (I'v…

Came across this Wikipedia list of wingsuit fatalities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_due_to_wi... The past few years is pretty sobering, especially given that…

(after reading through https://github.com/nodejs/board/issues/58 and other issues related to this situation) The Github comment revision needs to stop. It makes it impossible for p…

It would probably be better to use a trie directly, maybe a radix trie or a b-trie.

You promoting your software company that promotes software companies yo

CoffeeScript. It had its time but it's focus on syntax failed to address much of what makes JavaScript difficult to work with. jquery UI. Jquery still has some use in banging out a…

Amazon's growth was methodical and controlled, with a net income near zero or slightly negative most quarters. This is different than how Tesla is operating. I like Tesla but do ha…

Good timing. I need to create a short porn film for an art project (yes seriously) and been wondering how the hell to actually find professionals who I can work with. Random emails…

I wish you could just run ghost locally and then publish a generated static site. I actually much prefer the Jekyll flow to ghost but the core ghost ui and functionality are great …

Bolivia has had a small cocaine tourism industry for years, sometimes peddling just the leaves and sometimes more refined forms. Certainly not hard to find

Mechanical Turk and Fiverr