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> That has to be attributed to the newer generations. They are more skeptical of propaganda than ever before. To them, the high production value media outlets are just a quaint leg…

> Is the colour you see the same as what I see? It’s a question that has puzzled both philosophers and neuroscientists for decades, but has proved notoriously difficult to answer. …

You might have opened the article thinking that it was going to be a discussion on cognitive load theory in general. It's not and I don't believe it needed to be for its purpose, s…

A hacker and a mystic. We need more of those.

Love it. Make code accessibility a first-class citizen. Turn the rule books and their principles into guidelines . A smart coder knows to follow rules. A master knows code is meant…

> I think the nuance here is that “the simplest thing possible” is not always the “best solution”. The programmer's mind is the faithful ally of the perfect in its war waged agains…

> Anyway, I just wish China would just continue opening up, namely to get rid of the great firewall. To become the next Rome, China would have to open up and let itself be infected…

> But China proved you can pair authoritarian politics with a market economy. It offers a bargain we thought impossible: prosperity without freedom, development without democracy, …

The hallmarks of ghost job posting are so obvious that detecting them could probably be automated now. - Recurrent and yearlong ad for the same position, with numerous applicants (…

I'm not familiar with the process of passing a law. Is it one of those situations where the ask is open to negotiation? Like, if I want to be given a finger I first need to ask for…

Just to note. 80% of recruiters doesn't mean 80% of ads. A recruiter that has posted thousands of legitimate ads in their career, technically only needs to have posted 1 fake one t…

I'd love to go back to times where it was fine for a candidate not to have a LinkedIn. Currently, regardless of your blog, or your multiple StackOverflow answers, or your GitHub, o…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie#History,_etymology,_and_p... The idea was independently described in 1960 by Edward Fredkin, who coined the term trie, pronouncing it /ˈtriː/ (as…

A family member died last year. Some months ago someone hacked their way into becoming an administrator for his accounts. I want two things: fix the vandalism and memorialize those…

> Or, what all the cool kids do - music festivals and camping. Taking 1 gram of cubensis and taking 5 grams will not have the same effect. Traditionally, strong psychedelic doses t…