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It would seem that Walter is not so Bright.

The quote suggests that Silicon Valley CEOs spend a significant amount of time thinking about politics, and their engineers do not.

Besides administrators and sports programs, glamorous campus amenities and affirmative action admittees.

The US government gets to define racism, if legal requirements to employ a precisely calibrated ratio of whites, women, blacks, and latinos are any guide. This is America, after al…

People are fired for racism all the time. You don’t disagree with that, do you?

The fact of the matter is that, broadly speaking, basic programming is a suite of cognitive processes that pretty much all come online at the same, reasonably above-average IQ, and…

Have you encountered Julia, and if so, what did you think of it?

NYT is just giving MSFT its pat on the head for being "with it".

In a more humane age, they were housed in asylums. Then Reagan happened.

I'm sometimes amazed at how afraid otherwise competent software dudes are of a bit of sysadministration.

To be fair, the sort of people who used to live there then are not of a kind with the variety that live there now. Most of those who could leave — undoubtedly like yourself — did.

Long live the Gates?

Do you not self-host?

Why not just scrape the site? I don’t see what the problem is.

When you say "pre-Trump-era industrial region", do you mean that there is now more industry there, or less?

None of [Major Big Retailer]'s local store's profit stays in "my community". It all goes to Corporate HQ, which in the case of Best Buy is located in Richfield, MN. Amazon is just …

>they are inherently fuel inefficient compared to devices with wheels Total cost will be lower. >they are noisy, a problem which can probably never be solved unless breakthroughs a…

California is undergoing a demographic transition.

It really just depends on who exactly the "public" is that is inhabiting the "public spaces". I'm sure this Khosla fellow wouldn't mind his property being used by beautiful surfer …

What did you think they meant when they said "national security"? Obviously it was something like, "we are the nation and we need to secure ourselves from all enemies foreign and d…

That sounds perfect. Is it too much to ask for three company names to start me off in looking?

>The current uniformity predates GMOs, it stems from F1 hybrids that are effectively clones, and the legislation that makes it practically illegal to sell or plant non-patented see…

Well, all GMO products are subject to the same pressures of divergent interests. If you eat things, and if some GMO products you might eat are bad, and if the only genetic-modifica…

>we're increasing biodiversity Are you sure? Farmers used to have their own subtly different strains of crops at the individual, village, town, and country levels in a kind of expa…

The problem with GMO foods is not that they have been manually manipulated by man, but that they have been manually manipulated by men with interests not necessarily congruent with…