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Half joke: If I had to bet, I would guess that reading will exist for as long as civilization does. More seriously: I am less certain that it will exist in its current form (mass m…

I think a fundamental part of the reasons that Russia and the West cannot seem to escape a death-march to war is that Russia is so often conflated with the USSR. They are ideologic…

TBH, Porn is very clearly one of those things that there's basically no intrinsic added value to your life by consuming. Think cigarettes or fentanyl. Something, that, if most peop…

I think it's certainly an effective marketing campaign. I don't think it's an ARG. Too many things pass the smell test (referencing real companies, reposting real announcements fro…

I wonder if the heat and noise of even a tenth of the data centers in the world would be still so harmless.

Also Michael Pollan has a great book called How to Change your Mind.

Living life on auto pilot for certain points and moments actually is not the default way of existence, it's just the one many of us are most used to. I would highly recommend consi…

Herding devs to work on the boring-useful things instead of the interesting-solved things is slightly easier than herding cats.

If I wanted to learn more about rigorous, non-elementary logic, do you have a recommended resource? I've taken a course in intro level probability theory which covered it generally…

Thank you for being equal-handed and fair.

Not to be daft, but I can't imagine a single reason this is better for you career or labor organization-wise. If anything, it strikes me like that old quote: Benjamin Franklin said…

It's probably easier if your odds are not as good as 50%.

Are you discussing the article or specifically folks reactions in this thread? Per the article, he had reasonably good odds of recovery had he taken a traditional route. I think it…

I understand your impetus to tell others to 'stick to your lane' but I respectfully disagree and cite their post and your response as why. OP had what you deem a misapprehension an…

Twitter has no incentive to change the current structure as their platform now has a massive sway over discourse and an unrivaled ability to create seeming majority opinions. Why w…

I disagree that these conversations are inevitable and I disagree about your contention that the marketplace of ideas is no longer a foundational concept in our discourse. People f…

With a return of billions though? Most profit requires effort.

It's really wild to me that investors realizing foresting exists and continues to exist because it makes money is a story. I did forestry related club stuff in high school for a pr…

For what it's worth, I am an adult that spent way too much time playing video games as a kid. Like, I started around the age of 5 and consistently played hours and hours every day.…

You don't have to live by principles you raise espouse anonymously 24/7.

I find that Pocket frequently works to get around paywalls. I use it primarily for this purpose.

Are you referring to the Work at A Startup posts? I agree that it's perhaps one of the best cases of aligned incentives I've seen. How do you get a group of high competency enginee…

Particularly chilling if you engage with some of the recent theories about a certain power user who recently stopped posting.