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Unethical Thought Experiments: what if Twitter shrank the retweet button or hid it under the fold to but the brakes on the viral spread? Put amplification behind a trivial inconven…

Since no one has presented a version of the dotsies bookmarklet, which is actually necessary to use them in practice, I'll go and make one with the proper mapping for v3. If there …

This sounds interesting. Do you remember the essay or more details so that I could google it?

I'd be interested in seeing your list.

I might offer some insight here. I’m slightly obsessive about not inconveniencing other people. I try hard to put things in their proper places, not to eat the last bite of anythin…

What are some research areas complementary to the quantum computing/computational complexity where additional effort would remove roadblocks in QC research?

Oh no! I was following his work closely and had high hopes for him delivering on his vision: type theory and constructive notion of equality not getting in the way of doing mathema…

This does ring true, but I can't think of any reliable sources backing that up. I'd appreciate it if you mentioned some.

Thank you! I've just send a note of appreciation to the Centre for Effective Altruism. Let's hope that's a first step. I'll try keeping track of them @ https://mastodon.xyz/web/acc…

I could use some encouragement and life advice. I apologize if this ends up being long and whiny. I feel like I'm stuck on the outside of the part of society where all the meaningf…

I want to get involved with an open source project, I am familiar with Haskell and enthusiastic about making it more accessible. I've just completed an educational project where I'…

> The vast majority of people wish to belong to the tribe of “The vast majority of people.” This is not obvious to me at all. Would someone please explain?

ARM has notoriously low energy dissipation due to low voltage.

What are some examples of good pedagogy in programming? I would point to pretty much anything by Norvig, Knuth, Sedgewick, and maybe to Zed Shaw's agressive tutorials.

Consistency is shooting yourself in an even number of feet. How is it ethical to dox people that are being made into villains?

Thank you for that. That's the stance that I naturally gravitate to, but one I have been doubting lately. Your comment is encouraging. This might not be the most effective way to s…

What is notable here is the low approval rate.

It is meant for those who are already familiar with LaTeX but do not have a handy unicode input method. Emacs has a feature that allows you to literally type \alpha or \in or any o…

Now, replace "Alexa" with "Hey Siri" and you don't need another device.

Take a look at http://marvinapp.com . It has some fancy typographic and organizing features. I found it not to my taste, but YMMV.

I would love to see your take on this dependency graph, no matter how subjective and incomplete it turns out to be.

What you missed is that "nuhhuh, you do , too, here are some things you didn't think about" is not always the adequate response to "I have nothing to hide, or at least I can't thin…

That's far from the only reason to encourage privacy. I don't really know how to respond to here. I believe that I see your point, but even though I wouldn't mind my answers to tha…