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Same logic with communism - all the ones that ended in oppressive dictatorships, mass executions or starvation weren't "real communism" or weren't "implemented right"...

Ah - I've used S2 in the past. Great work. It scales really well for larger datasets. Interesting that you mention the use of multiple hilbert curves as well. We also experimented …

What's the reason behind the sudden, violent drop off from the front page for a few posts? They seem to be on a fairly linear trajectory and then go down by 30+ positions within a …

I understand the fundamental motivation for this sort of thing. The web is a static document display that over many decades of augmentation and extension has morphed into an app de…

It speaks specifically about "Foreign Adversaries" which - to my knowledge - is limited to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

I'm not a lawyer, but there's something that really concerns me about H. R. 7521 - a.k.a. the "Tiktok bill" that I was hoping to get people’s thoughts on: The bill makes it “unlawf…

I believe folders (or groups or similar) are the right solution to this, just not in the way that Google is implementing it. Basically, you group resources into folders and then us…

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Mostly the fact that this was 15 years ago :-)

Absolutely! I'm grateful that I don't have to worry about code formatting any more. But I remember in one of my earliest job the company used style checkers as a pre-commit hook th…