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And presumably eventually those exhaust ports would be obfuscated, necessitating the stealing of plans to identify such vulnerabilities.

I can't read this article because it's pay walled

the large majority of people do not keep their property until death.

this seems like an illustrative microcosm of the political stance of Vermont.

This should be called what it is: Brand Fracking Trust will be arbitraged until there are few information asymmetries to exploit.

Yeah, seems like classic representation vs traversal complexity trade-off a la David Marr.

the previous normal lasted decades, this one will last a year.

it never made sense to have devs all over the world doing the same task with tiny variation. Centralization was inevitable. LLMs might have been a step change but the trajectory wa…

US has tensions (lack of broad social agreement) in its regard for several subjects, so those areas absorb infinite money as the incoherent regulations and rent seeking around thos…

We have eliminated the ability to discriminate against those displaying anti-social behaviors or commons damaging externalities in the name of fairness, leaving monetary discrimina…

There is a blame industry and an excuses industry in an arms race with each other.

>our ancestors died extremely early No they didn't, stop using averages.

If you buy things that are productive you come out ahead on a trade deficit. If you buy things that are consumptive you are pawning future productive capacity of the country. Every…

good designers are obsessed with how things are used. the others are platonically wanking.

Because the 13" is close to the same physical size as the old 11

A bunch of math is like this too.

Already

Capitalism-meritocracy= lottery. This feeling percolates deeply into society over time.

Accelerando

frozen, thawed and reheated rice and potatoes triples their resistant starch content, drastically increasing their satiety.

Nutrition researcher here. The combination of free acids and free sugars seems to have a synergistically terrible effect on metabolism. The man who discovered diabetes tried to war…

Not covered in the article are the snack bars which to this day tend to be an oat and chocolate base with added protein and vitamins. This persisted far past the time it was possib…

Highly recommend Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation.

the mechanics of cooperation probably scale better than those of defection, by their nature. Defectors need to pay higher costs guarding themselves against the other defectors, and…

If you're confused by a widespread practice, consider that it doesn't have the purpose you assume it has. In the case of tech interviews, it's plausible they're selecting for willi…