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Same author as the AI claims warning which also had an interesting tone https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your...

"But rocket science is arguably simpler than weight loss, in the sense that it involves less unpredictability and variation. We control how rockets are made, and they don’t change …

Since this was about devices and ad-blocking, I expected the Pi-hole to make an appearance. But alas, the author used Brave browser. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/…

The latest MacBook Air starts at $849 refurbished. Quite a good value even compared to Windows laptops. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FREA2LL/A/refurbished-133...

The block-based visual programming system also looks similar to Scratch. I think kids still pick up valuable experience with basic logic, side-effects and weird cases like non-term…

The issue here is there needs to be administrative mechanisms to match supply and distribution of assets to demand. If you give someone $20 worth of food, but what they really need…

It's important to start saving first and buy property only after you have a sustainable nest egg. The extra liquidity from saving helps in all scenarios: if you need to find a new …

I do truly hope insect biomass decline is uncorrelated to global climate change, and has more to do with local land use (farming, concrete, fertilizer, etc). That would mean we cou…

John Bogle created the index fund, and along with it a savings philosophy that enabled the average investor to build wealth by taking an appropriate amount of risk (with exposure t…

I'm not sure the largest company by market cap has priced itself out of the market just yet.

The Motorola Razr M was an even smaller form factor with a 4.3" display. And all the iPhones from 3g to SE were outstanding in this now-extinct category, especially the 5s. The 5s …

There's a nice interactive version of a decision tree diagram here, in the section "Growing a Tree". http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

The thing about looking elsewhere is— what alternatives are there on the Android side? The XZ2 Compact is only marginally smaller than the iPhone 7. At this point the 7 (Apple refu…

You'd probably need to go with an MVNO plan like PagePlus or Mint SIM.

Gold's been around for a lot longer— it's mythologically significant. But as far as recent technology goes, Bitcoin's been around for a while. It's older then the iPad.

Bitcoin isn't really attempting to fulfill the currency use-case anymore. It's pretty much sticking with digital gold. Likewise with Ethereum, the currency is primarily used to run…

Viewing and editing 4K video would be a pretty common use case on the largest MBP.

Another classic, BitListen: http://www.bitlisten.com/

Then if I lose 100% of my investment, how much have I lost?

Bash scripts are way more portable. But for little scripts that only I will run on my computer, Fish is great.

Right now, you probably can't send $50M of Bitcoin around for the world for $3 either.

Vertcoin is the probably the most Bitcoin-like one that addresses the mining centralization issue.

It was probably MtGox and it was indeed shady.