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Simple fact: everybody dies. The remaining question is whether you have any control over it.

Not to be too big of a critic, but ... This, and other projects like it, are NOT "from scratch". It doesn't include little things such as a motor; wires; other electronics; the met…

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Better idea, don't use Heroku, nothing but an extremely expensive shell over AWS, in essence.

25,000 years ago, CO2 levels stood at 180 ppm - the lowest in 4.7 billion years of earth's history. About 30 ppm above the level at which RuBisCo stops effectively working, which w…

Gotta say, I’ll avoid using Repl.it in the future based on their douchebag behavior.

"We show (using relatively conservative assumptions!) that across 50 of the top public software companies currently utilizing cloud infrastructure, an estimated $100B of market val…

I notice that "bugfix service" isn't checked under the open source column, only the enterprise one. I always find it obnoxious and baffling that any company would delegate bug fixe…

Is making WASM able to operate almost completely independently of Javascript a design goal? In other words, be able to access and manipulate the DOM, CSS, browser functionality, an…

It wasn't so much a bet against the concept of hedge fund as it was against particular people's abilities.

I've long thought that there should be an absolute rule against linking to NYT articles on Hacker News. This underscores one reason why.

It would be far more accurate to assume that the paper of Walter Duranty's record ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty ) is routinely wrong than right. Their correct stat…

Why is this clearly extremely intelligent individual in prison?

Why does your website say there are currently no open positions?

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-br...

Rather than following the data and logic, many twist themselves into pretzels trying to rationalize that it’s all natural. They’re doing Beijing’s propaganda work without even gett…

I was excited for a moment. I thought it would describe, in human readable terms, the semantics of the statement. Case conversion is trivial.

As written the piece seems to imply that there's new hardware for every show. If true - why on earth?

Well, Amazon solved this problem - by censoring expression of developer dissatisfaction with the abomination. Way to solve a real problem plaguing your client base, Amazon. "@amzn …

This is an excellent talk on the importance of philosophy and an initial sketch of its structure. https://courses.aynrand.org/works/philosophy-who-needs-it

Try it on a few real abstracts. It appears to pull a somewhat random sentence and clips it. It really sucks.