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I’ve had a lot of dealing with the folks at TACC in my day job, and their work is pretty amazing. Add in a Top10 supercomputer and you have something pretty impressive.

> Because of downvotes? That's probably just because you brought partisan politics into the discussion. Wut? Mentioning a politician’s name isn’t partisan politics. He said nothing…

Seriously. Blaming the intern is a bad look, but here it reinforces the idea that they don’t even understand what was wrong. The fact that it leaked is only relevant is that it sho…

The headline doesn’t accurately capture the substance of the article. The article does say it doesn’t find evidence for “mass hysterectomies”, but it does say that a review of medi…

But the second doesn’t apply - you can’t listen to Apple Music with a different app, you have to use their app.

Was he advocating a course of action that would cause people to die? Because if he wasn’t (he wasn’t) then no, they wouldn’t be removed.

It has nothing to do with opinions, and it has nothing to do with ideology, except insofar as these two doctors were motivated by their ideology to profoundly misunderstand or misr…

It’s a flawed system when human individuals are treated like “tax burdens”

I’ll put in a vote for Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla. I knew very little other than “Tesla == weird genius”, and the book gave me a much deeper view of his work, from …

The article explicitly says that Improbable was told by Unity that the new TOS “specifically disallow[s] services like Improbable’s to function with their engine.”

Saying ‘I won’t stand for building a system explicitly designed to control and oppress people’ is “whining” and “screaming like privileged babies”? Have you read the reporting on t…

> I feel speaking out loud with a real person would force answers to a lot of these questions Oh, hey, we've arrived at the reason that phone number doesn't exist. The ambiguity gi…

There's no refuting of anything in the article. They actually CONFIRM that they've gotten document requests from DOJ, just voluntarily provided rather than after a subpoena. Watch …

I love the idea that you have any concept at all about whether or not someone needs an item. We're all glad you aren't materialistic, but we don't really care about your opinions o…

Beware anyone who lumps all those who disagree with them into a single group. Beware even more if the person then imputes motives and thoughts to the opponents. The author spends q…