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I think the Martian was adapted well from book to movie, so I have hope for this one. That said, compressing the entire story into a theatre runtime is tricky: I think it would be …

In the market for internet service, Starlink is a disruptor to existing ISPs. Especially for those servicing rural areas. I don't understand a reflexive reach to encumber a nascent…

Popular with whom? Newtonian physics is 'popular' because it is easy to grasp with a high school education. Likewise, the theories of the early David Ricardo era are easy to unders…

I took gp's use of "opera" to describe an inclusive, wide range of genres that feature human relationships, like space operas. There's definitely mass appeal (think of Star Wars al…

> you do kind of root for him in the end I'm rooting for him too. He doesn't have all the qualities of a classic protagonist, yet I find myself hoping that he succeeds in his madca…

I believe OAuth is working as expected. It provides valid authentication/identity for email addresses because "user@domain" and "user+wildcard@domain" are still validated as email …

I'm curious what part of ICANN's mandate is a failure. My understanding is that introducing new TLDs was part of it. > 7. The Creation of New gTLDs. The Green Paper suggested that …

Ah, yes, you are absolutely correct. The _clever form of one_ trick did not apply as often as I recalled!

In my limited math experience, I really found an appreciation of the number one. My favorite part of high school algebra was realizing that "solving for x" was often just a repeate…

> It reads like someone had a bad experience with a PM who thought they were Steve Jobs. I had the opposite understanding about the article. Steve Jobs was an extraordinary leader …

According to the book Breath by James Nestor, humans did not always have wisdom teeth problems: today, modern humans have small jaws because, during our youth, we spend less time c…

I think ICANN would not entertain a startup taking over registry operations for .com or .net. ICANN recently defended their no-bid contract renewal for .net with Verisign: > If ICA…

> how is it so much cheaper Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it: > At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Pe…

You can quickly go offline via dev tools. In Chrome, it's very simple[0]. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference...

My main takeaway from Bostrom's Superintelligence is that a super intelligent AI cannot be contained. So, the slippery slope argument, often derided as a bad form of logic, kind of…

I completely agree that's a valid argument. I just think it is rational for someone to come to a different conclusion, given identical priors.

Another explanation is that there are those who considered and thoughtfully weighed the ramifications, but came to a different conclusion. It is unfair to assume a decision process…

> the pipelined nature of PRQL really maps much better to how people should think about queries I disagree. Database engines take SQL and transform it into an execution plan that t…

Yeah, it's explicitly disallowed by ICANN to register a domain with this unicode character (along with numerous other characters): https://www.verisign.com/assets/icannrestricted/i…

Thanks for sharing - I didn't know about OpenNIC. It looks like an alternative to ICANN where the key distinguishing trait is that TLDs and domain names are awarded with a landrush…

> Less jobs is not necessarily a good thing ? The rollout of the lightbulb significantly reduced the economic potential of candlemakers, but it improved the quality of life for soc…

I understand that you are being poetic, but just in case someone reads this as fact: you are describing a dedicated circuit - which is what telephones used. The internet works on p…

> Most waiters/waitresses are payed below minimum wage and make up the difference with tips. It's slightly more complicated: hourly wage is the greater of ($3 + tips) or (standard …