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It's very clearly a toy example to demonstrate the idea, and it does so well. > What we have here is a Rube Goldberg machine, not a cleanly solved engineering problem. And what _we…

War is a symptom of various causes, like over-population, changing geographical conditions, and just plain old greed. It is not a root cause. If humans had no bloodthirst we would …

They did this in a few places in caphill during covid, 16th and 11th being big examples. The cars have since been allowed back on those roads, though. Someone went tearing down 11t…

- A lot of practice, which stemmed from a lot of fooling around and abandoned side-projects. I would deliberately start projects which were way over my head, with no intention of e…

I don't think that's what web3 is, that's just one direction some are taking it. Web3 is a move away from centralized platforms to ones which are either decentralized or more direc…

Link doesn't load, so with only the title to go on... It feels like it's implying that sincere is the opposite of cynical? But someone (me) could be sincerely cynical. Or falsely o…

If anyone had ever perused around the steem network (pre-Justin Sun takeover), you'd know what twitter would become if posting/liking/retweeting ever got monetized. It was a strang…

There's no perfect solution, but you can make it painful. One solution I've seen, which only works in a server-side rendered site, is for the server to generate a random name for e…

Love this, reminds me quite a bit of stumbleupon. In putting together my own RSS feed recently, and trying to figure out the best way to sync it with all my devices, I realized the…

> "hike" (just long walk since I live in flat Houston) I've been calling it "urban hiking" and everyone thinks I'm joking. But why drive all the way to the wilderness to do a hike,…

> When Peña downloaded the Bird app and agreed to its terms in August 2018, he unwittingly indemnified Bird against any lawsuits. Bird now claims that Peña owes the company $322,17…

That's ok, and happens frequently. "I don't have time to fully comprehend everything that's happening over there, but COWORKER is handling it and I don't see any obvious problems w…

Nowhere in the post does it mention the author asking anybody to do any work. Their coworker showed up asking questions about something they're working on.

Fwiw, I'm born-and-raised in the USofA and I couldn't tell you the difference, I think that person was just an asshole. (Though I suppose I also have learned most things from tv sh…

I'm afraid you don't understand how nebula works. A nebula cluster is fully self-contained, you are responsible for distribution of your own certs and hosting of your own lighthous…