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Those are all "crises" in different senses of the word.

In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy. I'd wager that in an insignificant portion of countries Apple expanded t…

iOS apps like Bear achieve this by building on iCloud storage

I'm not sure what threat model this supposed "Easy Fix" is intended to address. Struggling families already keep food past supposed expiration date. If manufacturers want people to…

> Most Americans’ daily routines depend on single-use items and throwaway plastic packaging, much of it flowing into streams and oceans, polluting our ecosystems. This is unsubstan…

MIRI pretty much demolished this here https://intelligence.org/2017/01/13/response-to-ceglowski-on...

It's not as much time lost as extra effort spent handling the denominations and counting changes. When I take a taxi in Bangkok, I need to pay cash to the toll booths. Uber just bi…

This is so appalling. If your wife is in labor and needs to rush to the hospital, the cab driver ought to charge you outrageously because you're richer than him?

Sure. Because reactionary lawmaking is the solution to all problems.

No, the floor is unrelated to the energy put into mining. The intrinsic value of Bitcoin is the ability to facilitate financial transactions. Brinks' entire CIT vehicle business is…

I will not comment on how much value this kind of snark is not adding to the conversation, but note that fairer forms of tax e.g. property taxes exist and don't require state to tr…

Then it's even more important that we read this blog post in the knowledge that it's the one that made it past NSA screening. We'll never know how many didn't.

I for one welcome our new autonomous corporation overlord, which would hire people via TaskRabbit to become its shareholders, and hire lawyers via emails to protect its interests. …

Yes, but practically, does it matter as long as the autonomous systems continue to provide sufficiently lucrative reasons for real people to sustain its operation, e.g. by continui…

Maybe startups find it more difficult to fire okay-but-not-great employees just because they don't have that much resource to focus on hiring in this super competitive job market.

They're in a perfect position to come out with a product like this, having developed solutions around the audio stack for years.

Yep, we have been doing this since way back in SC1. Player analytics, APM charting, heatmap, etc.

When I first spotted that, I wasn't sure if it was intentional. Maybe the comments are a part of the input.

This paper highlights the only real concern I have with BitCoin over the long term: that it's possible to engage in class warfare. If you believe the socioeconomic pyramid to hold …

Israel. They're under a constant threat of terrorism, but their intelligence has been relatively successful.