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There is an excellent "This American Life" episode on rats. The first act is about a guy who keeps rats as pets. It's a sweet story. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/801/transcript…

There is something to be said for how the technology stack keeps growing for businesses and what this might mean for the future. Thirty years ago, you had an OS and you installed a…

It takes the view that anyone in an administrative position will put the survival of the organization as their primary goal, while lower-level employees (who are far less invested …

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy absolutely applies here: https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html "Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureauc…

Yeah, Karateka deserves more than a simple aside here. It's amazing that he made that on his own as a college student. I loved that game.

I've thought this for a while: a day will come when the anonymous internet becomes a thing of the past. It really feels like we are already there but not everyone realizes it yet. …

I don't really have a stance one way or the other, but I don't think people just produce content for ad revenue. A lot of people produce content just to get their name out there/in…

The issue is that people produce content because they want visitors to their sites. If ChatGPT and Google just vacuum up content for AI summaries, people may stop producing that co…

He may have meant abdicated

There are always creative ways to present data. Dismissing the needs of a minority of people just because we don't share their visual impairment is lazy, and we can do better.

White with black text for success and black with white text for failure. People would figure it out.

He mentioned in the article that his Kindle is not connected to the internet (didn't explain why), so this is a no-go for him.

> Even if they found the culprits, what's a judge's verdict against a presidential pardon? This is bad logic. A presidential pardon at least exposes the corruption, and exposing th…

Maybe because the rot runs so deep in Washington that nobody really wants this to be a big deal. A little like the Epstein files: so many people would be caught up in the web if in…

Yes

The bill also prevents senior government officials from betting on prediction markets if they are participating personally in the event on which they are betting. https://www.merkl…

But what happens when the bill comes in? That's my biggest fear. I heard on a recent podcast that it is a great time to be a micro-entrepreneur, and I think that's true right now b…

Or it could be an awful lot of productivity. We have to think bigger. What would the world look like if every programmer were a 10x (or whatever) programmer?

In the 90s, you would have said the exact same thing about linux on the PC. Free software ultimately has time on its side. As long as a project has enough mindshare to keep its mom…

As you noted, fan fiction is legal. You just can't make a profit from it, which I think is fair. Also, IP laws force people to come up with their own characters and their own twist…

> Purpose-driven institutions built around transparency, cooperation, and accountability empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo. I am not sure …

Healthcare, schools, roads, generative AI. One of these things is not like the others.

It's someone asking to open up a communication channel after they (Mozilla) had already overwritten another person's work to the point that person is no longer willing to participa…

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