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My window management hack that I’m surprised I’ve not seen mentioned is that in macOS you can map each numpad key to a separate desktop. You essentially get a desktop control pad f…

Randall Williams is your brother? He’s one of my favorites from the Meateater crew. Thanks for sharing his dissertation, I’ve been meaning to check it out at some point.

Wouldn’t the argument then be that it shouldn’t matter to her if her house goes down a bit in value since it wasn’t liquid wealth anyways? So it’s a win-win in a way - either you’r…

Is there somewhere I can read the original/translated confessions in full? The piece really sold me on them but didn’t seem to link to anything.

Won’t you need to retry more than 300,000 times for 100,000 original processes? Unless of course the retry somehow has a 100% success rate. The article makes a good point though.

Did you read the article? I’m curious what points you actually refute. The author made specific arguments about the development of art and style, not the amount of culture produced…

I still wonder what Paul Stamets was alluding to about crimini mushrooms and cancer risk on his episode of the Joe Rogan podcast where he seemed unable to talk freely

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It’s quite sad to read him talk in 2005 about how online content was so authentic and not PR spam :/ I wonder if there will be another new type of media technology that will go thr…

I think this comes down to a philosophical difference in how we approach truth in the face of uncertainty. The truth here is clearly uncertain (and probably unknowable) at this poi…

I personally believe it's somewhat possible that there was some CIA involvement in JFK's assassination. I did not watch the entire video, but the part that addresses potential CIA …