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After which none of the doomsday scenarios people shrieked about had occurred. ISPs aren’t selling bundles that exclude certain websites, nor do cable providers privilege their str…

The reverse surprised me too: From seeing only abstract drawings of dogs, my daughter pointed at a real dog for the first time and said “dog!” ML is pretty long way from being able…

Making things look pretty is very good for your portfolio and career. But making things usable usually means ugly. Thin scrollbars and window borders are pretty. Mobile buttons wit…

Who knows, if voting doesn’t motivate them, but concerts do, maybe it will cause more people to get IDs. Isn’t that a good thing?

It’s really disturbing to pass a value judgement about what kind of fans are more desirable than others, and social-engineering it into the pricing structure.

Alas, every metric that isn’t “paying more money” can be horrendously gamed and corrupted. This is why despite all its flaws, the “price signal” is still the tried and true “least …

Isn’t it basically auction-based pricing with more steps? That’s not a fundamentally evil thing.

College admissions at elite universities, what this SCOTUS case is about, is zero sum.

This SCOTUS case had heavy emphasis on the fact Affirmative Action as it is practiced at elite institutions today, has a net slightly negative effect on whites, and an extremely la…

If groups have responsibility as you say, then Blacks as a group would have tremendous culpability for excess ratio of interracial murder committed by that group. That of course, i…

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/?sort=pct The most popular GPUs in use TODAY are 1650, 1060, 3060, 2060. If Apple can get the M2 Macbook Air to run like one of th…

Absolutely, the worst feeling of being stuck on a puzzle is not knowing whether you simply haven't solved the puzzle, or a bug has caused this door to not open and having to run on…

Honestly not a bad pilot episode right there.

The article says “averaging”, you say “converging”, but what if the operative verb is actually “optimizing”? Certain looks get the most followers on Instagram. Movie posters are te…

Adding hold-delays to anything is the opposite of juicy.

Because with search, the competition is really just "one click away", but when it comes to changing your office suite, or operating system, not so much. What MS is doing is far mor…

People forget fees compound. 1% extra fees will make you a lot more than 1% poorer in the long run.

One thing Americans do not have much experience with, is how the exercise policing speech eventually becomes the exercise of policing coded speech. People will always get around sp…

I agree. I wish to go away from traditionalist views “Alice should stop playing with trucks and play with dolls because she is a girl” to “Alice can with trucks if she wants”. But …

No, I don’t think the analogy works. People have a freedom of who they associate with and do business with: Boycott is when you decide not to spend your money someplace because you…

Thank you for sharing this. I remember a while back there was a major social justice controversy at Basecamp which started with a senior exec using some insensitive language. An em…

Sadly, news articles always grossly exaggerate research results. "We found weak evidence of ..." becomes "New study ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS the myth that..."

Who is the most underprivileged? 1) A Bangladeshi immigrant whose parents entered the US as economic refugees 2) A Uyghur immigrant whose parents entered the US as political refuge…