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> Other clues include highly structured comments with multiple headings, unnecessary comments in code, gratuitously defensive programming, and the use of emoji characters.... In ge…

Have you checked out IPFS?

Reason #13843 for using an ad blocker.

> he could extract the essential information from the much more confuse sources that were available at his time Wasn't this the case with Einstein's relativity as well? From what I…

Leading physicists at one time appeared to disagree. Newton and Maxwell do come at #2 and #3 though. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/541840.stm

Adopting a new technology often needs a lot of consideration. People will have a lot of questions, want to understand the implications and discuss with the hive mind. No need to at…

It does seem to be quite some (very boring) work. I'm curious about your reasons for taking it up. Is it more of a principles kind of a thing or do you see it could make a differen…

It indeed embiggens the spirit very well.

Given git is all over the corporate world, I say this is less of an issue than you make it out to be.

With the butchering of the Correspondent's Dinner last week, it doesn't seem like things will be the way they were.

If you're making a case of this vs what the US has interfered with, it simply does not stack up. Of course it's naive to think they won't start interfering like the US once they ga…

Not sure what I'm missing. If I click on Madagascar in the left box, the map zooms into Madagascar, but all the other arcs are still visible and not filtered out.

This is fantastic visualization! I couldn't figure out from the UI but is there a way to filter the map? Say, I only want to see things going out of Cusco or I only want to see whe…

It's funny, you go to the trouble of crafting a nice, easy to remember mnemonic and someone still fudges it up.

With a free service it's given because they have to monetize end of the day. For paid services different businesses will have different strategies. Some have a solid business model…

> i started taking it like 3 hours before bed, after reading scott alexander's psychiatry website, instead of right beforehand. He seems to suggest something like 7 hours before yo…

The readme is confusing. You say it has bubblewrap, but you also have an FAQ saying why not to use bubblewrap? Another FAQ says why not to use sandbox-exec for mac, yet the link fo…

I doubt they are doing it. You just have to get on a VPN to and see yourself being flooded with captchas despite browsing the web like a normal human and solving dozens of captchas…

Wut? This has to be some sort of a scam. There's no way you're going to be reflecting enough light from hundreds of kilometers away.

I wonder if the same can happen from dental implants. While not subject to the same levels of mechanical stress, the mouth can be a very acidic environment which can be corrosive t…

I think they're more talking about systemic effects resulting from such a concept. When you have unchecked power concentrated at a single position, that position will inevitably us…

The problems with social networks is pretty widely understood. Simply acknowledging them as problems, with a promise to tackle, is not enough to attract people imo. It would help t…

In some cases leaving people behind to die as well. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-porter-death-k2-norwegia...

Why content-addressed storage? I'm assuming this is mostly for auditability after the fact? Wouldn't it make sense to use some business identifier to be able to refer it back easil…

Money in this context is just proxy for value. You have exchanged cash for an equal value of stock. After this either could go up or down in value as the market determines. Sometim…