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Well. Aren't Velvet Underground basically a Genghis Khan of 20th century western music, as in 95% of people who attended their shows started a band, and roughly 37% of contemporary…

Occam's Razor. You typed a lot of words when the truth is obvious. Billionaires don't acquire media outlets to make money (directly).

The title now is "In praise of Tesla’s bankruptcy." Did Tesla file for bankruptcy? I'm confused. Nikolai Tesla filed for bankruptcy in 1916. This is phenomenally irresponsible of T…

Case further in point, MJ with "The Shrug Game" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daP4JysFcUg

Is Eugene Kaspersky going the way of Julian Assange, or is he just another Deep State 33rd Degree Freemason casualty? Who knows. Either way the flavor of the comments on this threa…

> Edit: I’m not saying that Ive’s a bad designer. Not at all. No, that's exactly what you're saying. Would you mind providing an example of your Platonic ideal of a designer?

They are artificially manipulating the market. That's about as textbook rigging as putting three masts on a ship.

Link to the article, published in Nature, so we can judge it on its merits rather than via the NYT summary: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00957-y Either way awesome NY…

I'm impressed by a great product. What are you doing with all those FLOPs?

knowing what i know about fiserv your thesis is either laughable or horrifying, the truth likely lying somewhere in between as it does

> In this talk we'll draw a direct connection between this ubiquitous insecurity and basic computer science concepts of Turing completeness and theory of languages. We will show ho…

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation

The fact that I couldn't read this because it redirected me to a Medium web app that I wasn't logged into told me everything I needed to know about the article. The medium remains …

Sorry, but how is that any more non-electronic than storing your ATM PIN in a safe? Given that the weakest security link is invariably human.

Correction: the best UI is no UI. A UI doesn't have to be point and click; it can be 4 confusing refuse receptacles. The best UX is happiness, beauty, convenience, pleasure, securi…

sounds like you experienced a 0th world problem

I'll go on the record and say that Equifax makes subpar quantitative decisions; i.e. cannot do the math. And also that their attorneys, and their attorneys' attorneys, and their at…

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in... shit ." - Mark "Citation Needed" Twain

John Sculley. "Jeff [Immelt], do you want to sell planned-obsolescence dryers and weather derivatives the rest of your life?"

If everywhere you go smells like shit, maybe it's time to check your shoes.

Awesome vision, product and person. I started using RescueTime back in '09 and it has helped me immensely over the years. I would say incalculably but I can actually calculate the …

It would be really fantastic to hear more if you're willing to share!

it is always easier to criticize than to create

The first time I tried to read a Feynman Diagram as a kid I had to put it down -- the incessant "ME! ME! ME!" dripping from every subatomic particle was a little too much.