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Don't read it end-to-end like a novel. It's a great book to keep around. Open it, every once in a while (even at a random page), read a passage or two, think about it, and go on wi…

What do you use? -- I've tried with lynx and its ilk but I find that too many websites these days are completely broken without javascript, and the layout often unreadable without …

I've been a (paying) user of NewsBlur ( https://newsblur.com/ ) since Google Reader shut down and haven't looked back. p.s: In HN spirit, it also happens to be one developer's side…

Perfect time to start moving (and contributing) to decentralized services. I've been following the development of https://beakerbrowser.com and I really hope it captures wider atte…

Idris? It can compile small enough to run on an Arduino: https://github.com/stepcut/idris-blink

> "really understanding" is just something a computer program thinks it can do once it gets complex enough to be conscious. At the same time, consciousness might not be a requisite…

considering YouTube makes me watch 25 seconds of advertising for a 40 second video... could be a lot.

Anecdotal: nothing helped my IBS. Dietary changes, exercise, nothing. Drs said nothing looked wrong. By the time I was 26, it was so bad I would stay home and not socialize often. …

This article has too many holes to count and reads more like someone in denial. --- BUT, as an aside: I think a decent argument exists for the non-certainty of intelligence explosi…

> Brutal? Sounds like a regular blue collar job. Which is to say: brutality is regular. While of course the current move towards exposing harassment in the office is important, I d…

There's no denying they promote a certain narrative in their PR, but are there known examples of leaks withheld by Wiki Leaks, where the whistleblower had to go elsewhere?

Eve looks interesting, thanks I'll try it out. (And the detailed response.) Most of my programming is in the domain of "take some data, do stuff to it, produce an output" and my ex…

Pron, what are the better alternatives / more promising lines of research you keep referring to?

Heh, I've had the same thought ( https://noamswebsite.com/r/books/ ). We are physical beings after all; at the end of the day our nervous system evolved for the sole purpose of hel…

I've noticed it too with a friend's TV. Some shows / movies become unwatchable because it's so distracting. -- I think part of it is that many of the artificialities of the screen …

I have, but I'm no security expert so perhaps I'm not seeing something obvious. -- Do you have a specific attack in mind? Is it an insurmountable vulnerability? If so you can just …

I don't know the internals of IPFS DHT implementation, but the whitepaper mentions Kadmelia and Coral. Coral tries to optimize for ping latency (you're not literally fetching from …

> Last I checked IPFS will not tolerate minute long latencies and requires a bandwidth above several kilobits per second. [...] It isn't hosted unless atleast one person keeps a co…

If data isn't embarrassingly cheap before mid-century we did something terribly wrong. Ditto electricity / battery life by the end of century. (and again: content-addressing could …