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It's difficult to recommend things without knowing a reader's taste, but I blanket recommend The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_…

- at a minimum, your id will be stored on random servers where it can be stolen - at a medium, you will have annoying and intrusive identity checks required to use many common webs…

Attestation of age should suffice; no one in a building somewhere needs to verify my age. If I tell you to treat me like a minor, you do it. Operating systems and browsers can work…

yeah, I have to admit I was commenting on possibilities here without having gone into the article yet -- having now looked for real, I agree that the disruptions don't seem very us…

Or actual jamming mistargeted for some reason, or used because it was deemed necessary.

I don't disagree with you, but your example of nails and their cost reductions made me wonder whether we reached a meaningful limit in say, some fundamental material terms, or whet…

Just answering with a possibility here, but they could be seeking freedom from liability for failure to moderate content or ensuring their service is "not harmful". If it's only fo…

I agree with what you're saying about writing something twice or even three times to really understand it but I think you might have misunderstood the WET idea: as I understand it,…

I don't think this diminishes your point, but, for a thing like memory, your father may be maintaining it by insisting on relying on it. It may diminish regardless, but its diminis…

> Jevons paradox isn't relevant to cognitive surplus Could you elaborate on this? Is it just a claim, or is there some consensus out there based on something that it doesn't/should…

This is the take, very well said. I've been trying to use analogies with cars and cabinet making, but building a house is just right for the scale and complexity of the efforts ena…

This is not true. When you spend Canadian dollars at a business owned by a Canadian, you're sending that owner and the Canadian government your money, in exchange for their goods o…

lol, uh, I'm pretty sure they actually can't. You or a business with legal owners can have a bank account, and you can give access to that account to an agent, but real banks work …

For anyone else who briefly got very lost at PFC, probably "prefrontal cortex".

https://www.courtlistener.com/ is run by freelaw.

All fair points, I think I agree with your take overall but we might each be focusing on situations involving different levels of capital, time, and skill: I'm imagining situations…

That might be true, but it doesn't have to be immediately true. It's an arbitrage problem: seeing a gap, knowing you can apply this new tool to make a new entrant, making an offeri…

I experienced the exact same thing: I needed a web tool, and as far as I could tell from recent reviews, the offerings in the chrome extension store seemed either a little suspicio…

Singing copyrighted Billy Joel to make your footage unusable for reality television; thanks 30 Rock for an early view into this dystopian strategy

Yeah, getting into the car with the guy holding the gun doesn't become okay because you have a great argument you're waiting to use down the road. He's already got the gun out. We …

Neat! Yeah, that's a pretty complex context and I completely see what you mean about the new hardware being part of the rollout and necessarily meaning that you can't just run both…

Absolutely, I agree that it's a useful pattern. I've personally typed 4111 1111 1111 1111 into a stripe form more times than I want to even think about. My point above was that it'…

> So, no. There is no development configuration in production, or mirroring of a point of sales terminal to another system that's running development code. This is a misreading of …

Lead: "We have six weeks to ship. Questions?" Dev: "Could we pull an export of relevant historical data and get some time to write code to safely anonymize that, and stand up a par…