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Language is a tool for manipulation. Sure it is used for communication with people considered “equals”. But primarily people use it to get what they want from people they can outma…

You are of course welcome to administer this site as you wish. However: This site hasn’t represented balanced discourse or intellectual debate in at least a decade. I’ve watched it…

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I was so fortunate to get in at a startup paying $90k/y usd in 2004. Now I’m poorly paid compared to the people I “mentor” at $160k + bonuses with no RSU. But at least I’m working …

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Reading through papers on cholangiocarcinoma: most of them ARE falsified. And I want to harm people for it. Only three new drugs in 29 years. And I can’t help but think it’s partia…

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Not downvoting personally. But the charging situation on the ground in Texas is hit or miss. If you’re along major interstates and major metropolitan areas you’re fine. You might h…

Yeah. But I can still fill an ICE car manually with a can or hand pump. Also hurricane evacuation with mass electric adoption is going to be an interesting situation to observe. It…

Now imagine that distance being the distance to the next major city. And your family is 2 hours east of there. Welcome to Texas.

Seriously. Just give me a NORMAL car with a modern electric drivetrain and I’ll be happy. I have my 4Runner for longer trips and “electric grid down because Texas is a 3rd world is…

Yes! It literally pointed at the horizon. Awesome find.

Not sure if it’s still this way, but Kotzebue AK was the perfect place to test low bandwidth internet. The over the horizon satellite uplink the entire town shared could only alloc…

Thanks for continuing to write as you can. Both of my parents are simultaneously dying from different forms of cancer. My father the same as yours (it started in his upper gum line…

All these new hardware level physics exploits in software fascinate me. At the same time they make me wonder if the hardware will ever truly be able to be secure and perhaps we nee…

And to be very clear: I don’t think the developer in this case is overhyping anything. I think the community is. His writing is super entertaining and he has made a great product.

Oh I’m not disputing it’s good for a single developer along with the freedom. It’s just that these projects always get talked up as huge successful life changing products (like Bin…

Man it’s so great to see sites like this continue to thrive. At the same time, I am once again amazed at how little revenue a publicly touted successful project makes.

While I'm aware anecdote is not the same as data, I really feel that the smart home experience vis-a-vis Alexa is getting worse. It no longer recognizes simple voice commands. Thir…

Here’s where I come off as ass, but what do you expect? These are complex systems with millions of moving parts and millions of lines of code. The chances of anyone ever being able…

Anecdata, a lot of the popular conservative user-generated content on YouTube I've come across tends to trend negatively towards "black people are causing all this crime and police…

That is extremely troubling. I wonder if it's because the algorithm is taking into account previous negative uses of the word in comments/commentary and flagging it as possible hat…

Unless Bitcoin has a fundamental evolution, it cannot be a replacement for fiat currency. I'm super excited about the crypto currency space but I firmly believe we're in the "Diamo…