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It's unfortunate that we must be this paranoid.

The game you play when you retire, get the lowest score.

I believe the title is misleading out of context, I think it is meant to lack conclusions or clear statements and simply outline some areas for discussion ... a proposition paper? …

Perhaps the most sustainable way. It would reduce my stress to imagine a world where my grandchildren didn't die from atrophy during the great power outage of 2079, where only the …

> In our culture, people suffering from schizophrenia or other forms of psychosis are more likely than members of other cultures to recognize their hallucinations as a symptom of p…

I was asking for a function that converted a number (auto incremented id) to a string, such that all possible shortest urls would be iterated through. E.g. given character set a-z,…

A lot of information can be conveyed with body language, context and emotion, to the point where it's difficult to distinguish from telepathy. Most especially with folks who've spe…

Took me months to realize (on macbook) ... no one believes me until I power it off and have them try again. Spooky is the word.

I enjoy reading things that have more time and intellectual energy put into them. This is not true of a lot of twitter ... but the short constraint I think is the only thing that r…

"IBM CEO Personally Offers Company’s Services to Donald Trump" [1] https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/ibm-ceo-personally-offer... [2] https://twitter.com/yogthos/status/7990606085…

Trump supports free speech? He promised to strengthen libel laws (pretty sure there aren't any such thing at the federal level now ...) He said a lot of things freely, and a lot of…

Seems pretty cruel to me. Would be nice if we had some sort of standards or guidelines or laws against this sort of treatment of prisoners. Would one need a safe word at all if we …

To be specific, we mean like a chrome plugin or something at that level, right?

Can't they both be immoral? Whole problem is catholicism is a state supporting religion that says "your government doing evil isn't your problem". I pay my taxes, but I consider it…

Wow that's an unfortunate conclusion. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and whatnot though eh.

I disagree with Hobby Lobby's decision, but support their right to make it. There are different types of contraceptives, and that we use the same word for all types is disingenuous…

That social approval is what defines what's socially acceptable everywhere. Twitter has expanded the boundaries of politically correct / acceptable speech, by enabling that brown n…

And they would have given up control of the experience, and the types of discussion and interaction would have been different, and the "X and Y fought on twitter last night" would …

Just editorial control over the line of "what's acceptable here" is a huge power to control the boundaries of debate. That power can be used to make massive amounts of money.