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Copyright says this has been around since 1988... M-x spook https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma... "The idea is that if lots of people add suspicious words…

And a sound business decision until the copyright law works itself out.

France is #1 in care according to the world health organization for 1/2 the cost per capita. It is all private, well-regulated, and provides universal coverage (your company pays y…

The Erie Canal (362.9 mi) is not as long as the California aqueduct nor the Grand Canal in China but it is also longer than the "man made river" of the article, and IT HAS A SONG, …

Maybe the idea is that from the first person perspective, neither pursuit (EDIT) felt like doing anything useful... and yet...

Dude, the DAC is not the dongle.

Check out roon + quboz and/or tidal -- that's the audiophile route. Roon is just meta-data and presentation. Quboz/Tidal hold the content. Roon's content and interface is fantastic…

Not free, but these books from "hook theory" are great and their tools are also amazing. Complementary to the tools at muted.io that the OP references... https://www.hooktheory.com…

Given your description, I'm surprised you, or any responsible driver, would keep using the feature. It sounds really dangerous.

Rails is really a gift. It's so productive and works so great on teams because of the heavy conventions I think. And the ruby library ecosystem is insanely good. Libraries generall…

Nonsense. No one is trying to establish a causal link here. Still, a concrete example of what's possible is useful and inspirational. If you do this, will you get this outcome? Pro…

Rails + angular works well, might be a compromise for you. You could replace the backend endpoint by endpoint... e.g. (or similar to incrementalize it). I mean -- assuming the C# i…

I think if you get a bad performance review, they should probably just send you to prison.

Yes because it is still a hyper-effective and flexible way to build and iterate many products. And it's not just rails. The library breadth and quality of ruby libraries IME is off…

What if you were inventing a language (or a programming language)... If you decided to prevent people from saying things you disagreed (assuming you could work out the technical de…

Replying to my own post, but to the OP's point -- we can't research very well on US healthcare data in aggregate because it is so error prone and inexact to aggregate it. Data scie…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Vitale France's system is universal and private (private docs, insurance, and reference pricing -- a service has a single fee across coherently …

Any persistent storage will exhibit the cruft problem over time for any system of even limited complexity. You're describing people, not Smalltalk. And Smalltalk has had version co…

The gap between concept and working product is still very much in the human's wheelhouse. This is an accelerator to snippets not yet turned into a library and, in fact, a lot like …

Are you saying in your _better_ _society_ a-holes don't get money?! I'm in!

I found this Emily Bazelon article from the nytimes really thoughtful. It's about free speech laws and disinformation campaigns. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-sp…

Yes, humans are biased. Sigh/Yawn. Still, there is a world of difference between trying to be objective and not trying to be objective at all. I think, generally, the Times is tryi…

Do you prefer "Ad Boycott of Facebook Kind of Growing"? Or "Ad Boycott of Facebook Growing Slowly"? Or "Ad Boycott of Facebook: The Details" It is growing, the details are accurate…

I don't have to let trump stand on my front porch and scream lies at top volume, and twitter doesn't either. Twitter is protected by the first amendment here, not trump. Twitter's …