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Then more bots come in undetected and you have to rebase again when you find them. It's a continuous process. You need very understanding investors to pull this off. At the same ti…

As a tentatively more minimalistic explanation, the musical ear perceives specific geometric relationships between frequencies as strong stimuli, and a major chord consists of simu…

Why should we believe that the author's perceived value signaling by some class of society (which is debatable already in a somewhat puritanical society) is the primary responsible…

A nudging system like this better have a much higher signal to noise ratio otherwise it really amps up the clippy-like annoyance. Keep in mind this isn't something you have to go t…

What about when the landlord is a company? Or an actual man in fact? We're going from unnecessarily gendered to unnecessarily neutered word.

Human bladder range can already be extended 10x by the use of Gatorade bottle technology.

And revenue will shrink accordingly. If that's his plan, he's right that it can only happen in a private company. Otherwise the resulting revenue deceleration will send Twitter int…

The cost of actually administering fairness in elections (maintaining voter rosters, verifying identities, preventing double-voting and providing public auditability while ensuring…

That would also get rid of users. It's pretty clear that chronological ordering is non-optimal for engagement in a feed system.

You can put Gboard on your iPad

Well, open source volunteering is a form of anti-capitalistic political activism to begin with. This is just adding a geopolitical angle to it, but all FOSS is political already. W…

The more I hear about Stephen Wolfram's schemes to name things after Stephen Wolfram, the more admirative I grow of Nicolas Bourbaki and wished he were publishing amazing math soft…

Yes this is a more plausible example of needed regulation to align capitalistic incentives on societally beneficial outcomes (vs cat UTI research)

> Putting aside cats, there are plenty of diseases that impact humans which don’t get researched enough due to very rare, e.g. Sure, and is that a problem? Should we as a society n…

> areas that need it The premise of capitalism is that enterprising individuals and institutions will respond to the monetary incentive created by these needs. Could it be that wha…

Some fertility specialists will say on first consult, the odds that you could get pregnant naturally just went down as you walked through the door to my office. All because the kin…

> adverse selection problems I gotta admit feeling some schadenfreude that people trying to revive indentured servitude end up being out-grifted by their own customers

What do you recommend for calendar management?

I've been looking to increase my use of the keyboard, primarily for the productivity gains that I find myself able to reach by consistently sticking to the keyboard. Since I starte…

Re opendoor etc > A less competitive market is less dynamic and worse for sellers, but it is better for the iBuyers that remain. If they can avoid taking on the bad deals that Zill…

Sure but I'm still happy for the guy. I don't expect he or anyone to want to make nice things for the Internet.

> Did you write this comment before doing any research into how NYT handles their games? I'm somewhat aware of how it works. > NYT has a bunch of daily mini games that are free and…

Yes i used similar data. Zooming in on Flappy bird, it also had a peak of search interest after the announcement of its removal on Feb 8, 2014 (supporting that more people likely l…

That meme cycle was ~20x smaller than wordle in magnitude. Most people only heard about flappy bird after it was announced that it would be retired.