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In at least some religions, [part of] the definition of God is that he is the uncaused cause. Thomas Aquinas spends a lot of ink talking about this (there's a more accessible expla…

I was on a debate team in college, and understanding people talking at 200 to 300 wpm is a critical skill. Wired ran an interesting article on this phenomenon a few years back: htt…

There's a setting for this! Chrome allows you to deny all notifications requests automatically, without even a prompt coming up. See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/322021…

For mobile, I've found ddg.gg much shorter to type than duckduckgo.com, and it redirects to the same place, so maybe that's a solution. I don't have anything for the latency, thoug…

That article only mentions Pittsburgh once, to say that that's where Duolingo is based. I searched and couldn't find articles about Duolingo moving out of Pittsburgh, although they…

I expect the reason Google is doing this is to be able to control the rate at which they allow people onto the infrastructure behind the new service. Going from internal testing to…

Somewhat off-topic, but on https://trello.com/enterprise , you say that you provide "24 x 7 x 365 incidence response" where I think you mean "24 x 7 x 365 incident response".

Yeah, I think I was just confused. An off-by-one error in applying negatives, I think. Thank you for the article. I found it interesting to think about.

> There are lots of properties by which one can evaluate a hash function, but the most important are preimage resistance (if I give you a hash, can you find an input with that hash…