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This text sits at the wellspring of Western culture, such as it is. You don't need to accept any metaphysical claims that it makes in order to appreciate its wisdom.

Real humans who are unable to resolve your issue are quite accessible indeed.

In the loop for the NFC part. One's bank is, rather obviously, involved in the transaction.

I don’t know what you’re referring to. Trust is a fundamental part of security. Without trust you need to be ever vigilant in an ever expanding set of domains and technologies, or …

> But no one would force you or anyone else to leave that Apple ecosystem you hold in high regard. There would simply be more opportunity for alternatives “Opportunity for alternat…

I don't have an example, but I believe your question supports my point. From everything I've observed, Apple is generally better at providing a secure ecosystem than the variety of…

Security. I'm quite happy as an iPhone user to have Apple be the only ones in the loop for NFC payments. I'm generally happy with all other restrictions mentioned in the suit (no 3…

> The personal computer & the internet clicked for me because I saw them as personal enables, as endlessly flexible systems that we could gain mastery over & shape as we might. I f…

> A privately owned company is just as likely to consider input from employees as an employee-owned company is. > Both employee owned companies I worked for the board made those so…

> also, what actual publicly available product has he ever produced? JUnit

I think the pipfile should specify only the ‘readability-lxml’ package and not ‘readibility’, which does unrelated things.

Nortel had a similar trajectory. Just prior to the crash it represented 1/3 of the Toronto Stock Exchange by market cap. It essentially went to null and took 10’s of thousands of j…

> Which is maybe better than a tightly integrated system when it comes to farming implements. He mentions swapping out components from last season a couple of times, so lack of int…

Dry graphite powder is messy. I would recommend a teflon-based product like “DuPont Easy Entry Lock Lubricant”

> It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now. Do you mean PDFs for correspondence such as bills or invoices? That is not commo…

> For-profit, private sector health insurance is not a healthy market. Anyone over 65 would be on Medicare. It’s not exactly free, but it’s also not private.

My team at Microsoft works on DiskANN, which was designed for this kind of use case. https://github.com/microsoft/DiskANN

I think it depends on the industry. In a specialized niche (B2B), sure. In something like new auto sales, all of the information is available online and is usually more comprehensi…

> You can pay people to churn out bad self-help all day, but none of those are going to be worth a damn without allowing the human element to flourish. But you still need a factory…

Sounds like we need an AI complement to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

I recall that it’s depicted as a kind of bloodless coup / occupation.