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It depends on the startup. If it's well run, you aren't working late every night and every weekend. If it's run by sociopaths who want to keep their employees in a state of perpetu…

I keep all my passwords in a text file. I can't imagine remembering them all. I suppose I should keep that file encrypted and synced to multiple devices with rsync or so. Would a p…

Thanks for this correction! I had hurriedly checked Wikipedia bios for each participant and completely missed the main point of Heisenberg's wartime activities. https://en.wikipedi…

Actually this conference was largely from a previous generation of scientific thinkers. According to their Wikipedia bios, Niels Bohr was the only one of those 10 names involved in…

Try the 1927 Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/87a8ea/1927_group_pho... Schrödinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, de Broglie, Bohr, Pl…

Some people at the time felt that C and Unix were a setback to computing compared with Lisp, in the same way that Microsoft Windows was a setback compared to Unix. Bell Labs is the…

Yes, and specifically in the case of Premier League it seemed to cause problems with needing extra stoppage time. There was a recent match experimenting with video replay, and one …

Absolutely buy an external USB webcam if this is the case.

Yeah, experiencing a lot of "little deaths" makes it easier. These can be the death of a relative, a near-death experience, or a serious trauma that means you will never realize yo…

Thank you, I can't even keep track of the option names for long enough to properly curse them. I wonder if there could be a kind of POSIX schema for similar options across utilitie…

To me the difference between a script and an alias is too trivial to quibble over. I'm fine putting all of my aliases into one-line scripts, if that would really make them easier t…

Why do you think it's good to put a long command in a script, but bad to make it an alias? It sounds like you think shell dotfiles can't be managed across machines just like script…

Yep, that's why I am promoting custom filters. There are so many folks on Twitter who post awesome content but I have to unsubscribe so I don't get inundated with their politics.

Point taken, but I feel all those languages had good runs. Modula-2 might have had less commercial success but still holds some intellectual interest. I sort of got sick of the web…

I think the massive amount of churn in the web world is the exception rather than the rule. If you learned C programming 40 years ago it would still be relevant today. Even Android…

I feel like the missing step is "until you need the ability to create custom filters to see what you want".

People commonly think of cheese as tasting good but not particularly beautiful to look at.

There's a tendency for too much money to ruin things. I agree that excluding all non-government and non-university participants from the Internet would be a bad thing. But there we…

I would love to see some tools for decentralized mass moderation of RSS feeds.

> what if on some level, there is a motivation to hurt these people who they feel are inferior? I think this insightful, and I suggest there is a motivation to hurt other people in…

It seems more likely that the lower classes can easily empathize with the rich because they want to be the rich, while the converse is not normally true.

This comment is pretty wide of the mark. The article points out that consumers made a mistake in trusting Facebook and rejecting a decentralized Internet. It's valid to make that c…

> And it’s that hope that Cambridge Analytica has shattered. Seems more accurate to say, that hope was shattered when people gave up on decentralized infrastructure like RSS and em…

if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness. Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favorin…