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The weirder thing is that redditors make it possible to own categories. The name of the subreddit shouldn't matter much at all. For each category there are several subreddits but p…

The opposite of information hoarding is not unexciting, mind-numbing work. The opposite of information hoarding is doing what you want to do. If somebody can do something nice, and…

>Why do I find myself in this situation? Is it FOMO driving me to want to keep track of everything? Perhaps it’s some form of perfectionism or even an addiction. My preferred expla…

- Please offer the option to test the web app without having to register an account. The data could be static so that it doesn't tax your servers. - Using votes is good, allowing u…

>It has a CMS and social network to organize, share, and discover with others What's your opinion on ActivityPub? Could you make the network compatible so that annotations can be s…

What I am missing from tools like Hypothes.is is the ability to interact with ActivityPub accounts. There is too much frictions if others have to create a hypothes.is account befor…

>If Google isn’t making any money from you on Gmail Isn't Gmail the core pillar of Google's ad network? Whoever is logged into Gmail tells Google who is using an IP address. Facebo…

The printing press made it easy to quickly share finished thoughts, boosting science and bringing the industrial revolution. There should be an equal opportunity for progress when …

>How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox Links are much more useful once notes and todo lists are shared and publis…

I hope that Obsidian extends the social network beyond Discord integration. Those digital gardens only grow on their own when others can enrich notes and annotate ideas.

How much can be accomplished by somebody who isn't willing to take as much risk for their idea as women take for having a child? Of course, paternity leave shows that most men need…

>You empower people by making sure their basic needs are taken care of so they have the freedom to fully pursue these projects. This is interesting because you look at the situatio…

You are not fully arguing his point: >writing software for banks or insurance companies Look at Gimp. It's the software that people like to write but not the one designers like to …

Amazon doesn't make profits and thus doesn't pay taxes. Bezos doesn't sell much and thus doesn't pay taxes either. Changing rates wouldn't change anything. Tax rates only affect th…

I have seen two arguments: 1. Tesla has heavily invested in robotics. They will be able to build cars much cheaper than their competitors. 2. Tesla has long-term lithium delivery c…

Compare it to cars. New cars are more complex but collectors pay the most for the old, simple cars with a bonus for beauty and speed.

Shout-out to the smallest interesting number [1] and Kolmogorov complexity [2]. How difficult is it to scale the approach, slightly adjusted for ROI [3], like a variation of kickst…

> Just work on projects that you find fun. Slightly off-topic: What's that fun? There is hedonistic, roller coaster riding fun, there is joy of accomplishment, there is fun in tink…

If you want to have 40 different instructors, you need 40 times more students. That doesn't change the fundamental economics. If you want famous professors, you either have to pay …

>graduate students would receive a minimum stipend of $34,000 by October 2024—a raise of $13,000 How do those numbers add up? If a degree costs $100K and a graduate student costs $…

If resources would be distributed evenly, would society be better? Who would make better allocation decisions than some arbitrary elite that happens to be rich? Without those riche…

The elephant in the room is globalization. The same resources have to be shared among many more people. Even if energy is no problem, there is e.g. a limited amount of fish protein…

With the growth of China, will the pre-1980 times come back?

What's your timeline? The dates on twitter suggest that it is abandoned.

When somebody offers food and shelter, people will fill the space and they will create whatever that person asks them to do. They will create Netflix productions and Google chat ap…