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Agreed. I don't like that you're downvoted for pointing this out as the language is very weasel-wordy (revealed to have? by who? what is all of Facebook?): > Zuck is also revealed …

Seconded! Great read though maybe a bit reductive in places

Why are room temperature superconductors an 'obviously-impossible' technological claim? Asking since we've managed to increase superconductor temperature several times in the past,…

In the book "The Quest for Community" (1953), Robert Nisbet argues that social function is primary and natural and leads to true association which for man fulfils a core need. From…

A lot of comments mention John Ousterhout's book Philosophy of software design and it's definition of complexity of a system being cognitive load (I.e the number of disparate thing…

Doesn't chat gpt require a phone number?

The difference here is that humans aren't the ones using the stablecoins or micropayments. Agents are. Humans will interact with agents like they currently do. Honestly, some form …

Ben Thompson's latest article deals with a possible solution to this issue: https://stratechery.com/2025/the-agentic-web-and-original-si... Tl;dr* He claims ads were the original s…

> People want the death of Google because people hate ads and tracking. > Paid competitors cannot compete because people won't pay. Seems to me they're different groups of people. …

Agree. Apple should be as well. The only con I can think of would be their (Meta's) data center investments but seems this will make them more efficient?

Great book! IIRC, after attending the 2005 USA memory championships as a journalist, he became intrigued and started training and in one year became USA Memory champion in 2006 at …

The increase from 2009 could also be correlated with the rise of smartphones

Nice idea but horrible execution. Playing from this angle gives me a headache.

It's possible that self driving can be 'added on' using something like Comma: https://x.com/comma_ai/status/1795596189544722695

Code & Data: https://github.com/minusxai/plots 1 Minute Creation Video: https://youtu.be/dANHVKezZ4w

Seems there's a lot of links submitted from new accounts which are dead on submission. This doesn't seem normal. Screenshot above^