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You deny the statistic in the article. Then you use corporate speak like "we internally think about things..." Then you link to a blog post titled "Measuring Prevalence", which doe…

So abstract mathematics are leaky, and applied mathematics are not (you don’t have to know how they work to apply them, e.g. regression).

I can copy text in Safari on iOS. What are you on?

I don't know about others, but it's not boring reading for me. I appreciate it when someone points out the downvotes and responds, as OP has done here. We shouldn't treat downvotes…

It's rare because it's hard. It's much easier to just pretend you have a hammer and treat everything like a nail.

Where are you next week? This is a show I'll travel to follow.

It’s a trade off between convenience and security. Consumers _do_ care, just not enough to put unusual amounts of effort in. These moves by Apple make it much easier, and could bec…

I've actually been thinking about doing something similar in India. How has it been going for you?

> What’s wrong with that argument? At an individual, probably nothing. But at a macro level, apathy is equivalent to a lack of legitimacy, which is a big problem. If the cancer of …

But what about the Big Pop?

Currently we trust information by the source it comes from. It’s an authority-based model. Consensus shifts that trust from authority figures to others in your group. Bottom-up tru…

What do Joe and Jane think about the mountain of debt they’ve had to pile up? What do they think about the bankers who decide what happens to their money, and the politicians who d…

>> There’s an association that still lingers between a “community” and a physical location — the idyllic small town, say, or the utopian village, real or imagined. It evokes a cozy…

> The very common complaint on Ada user groups and forums is the licensing model. Most companies avoid GPL like the plague. What's wrong with the GPL?

Except investors. This "collaborative platform" angle is clearly designed with the IPO roadshow in mind.

I think they don't let other people take over your screen the way ScreenHero does though?

Check out Ethereum's Plasma proposal: plasma.io. It's a similar concept. I'd describe it as tree of blockchains with MapReduce for state transitions and merkle trees for proofs.

I remember someone also rigged up a mechanical typewriter to run vim http://blog.qqrs.us/blog/2013/05/03/vim-on-a-mechanical-type...

133 points in 2 hours and it's not anywhere on the front page. Meanwhile, the current top post has 97 points in 3 hours. What is going on?

You're partially right. But "wasted" compute cycles refers to time that your CPU sits idle. I think the argument here is about energy usage. So sitting idle is not the same as runn…

Can someone explain why it's so hard to build a missile shield around the US? We've been at it for decades and it's still not reliable. Meanwhile, Israel has the Iron Dome. I know …

> That claim seems to require the ability to know the future. One could say startup investing does too.

I did this course a while back just when I was getting started on my self-taught journey. I'd highly recommend this over Harvard's CS50 or MIT's intro course. This has great covera…

It's kind of cool when board games are abstractions of real world patterns. It's like you learn something about the world, about how it _really_ works, when you play. Monopoly (cap…