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Apple is taking sides with the oppressors. Shameful but predictable: "When it comes to hanging the capitalists they will sell us the rope." (supposedly Lenin)

It's an improvement for the people in China.

Nestle is trying to avoid the trap Coke and McDonalds fell into: Only offering unhealthy food choices and loosing the young generation of health-conscious consumers. They can't go …

I'd say it does well compared to other languages: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=python%20tutorial%2C...

A while ago I did a Contemplation course where you do sitting & walking meditation for ~9h / day. The experience was very similar. It's fascinating when you look into spiritual pra…

More than AI I would like to see standardisation and templates for common law problems. Like what creative commons did for copyright. Normal humans can use and very quickly underst…

Icons are little symbols that are equally incomprehensible in any language.

I didn't know that McKinsey knows Tech.

Someone finally ran a real study. I wish companies would run such experiments much, much more often.

Same here. It's a shame since otherwise this ~5y old computer still is holding up well.

I like that it's short.

The nice thing about the paper is that they try to put data where others put guesses, rants, expectations, and believes. Arguing with data is actually difficult (and rare) in the s…

Making drugs legally available in pharmacies would lead to: (1) organised crime looses a large chunk of its business, (2) no need for dealers to advertise to new users, they won't …

Summary: No article containing the word "methodology" is worth reading. Instead, spend time talking and listening and understanding exactly which problem you need to solve.

Focus on logos.

The concrete example is a perfect use case for a macro: In other languages you have to understand and change the compiler implementation to achieve the same effect. That's most lik…

You never know. But you can reduce the likelihood for that to happen by paying for it.

Note to myself: Don't study typography.

I have a color profiled MBP and also see unreliable transitions now and again. Opening System Preferences > Displays > Color and flipping two profiles back and forth fixes it.