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In this case, the question is informative and stimulating because it challenges the assumption that human interaction has a different dynamic to animal interaction. Bringing this q…

The soul is an emergent property of the mind and body interacting with the world.

… in the hope of avoiding shallow comments like this. Shallow? It’s profound. Have you tried to respond to the question, in the human context?

I know the code that I and my team contributed to Mozilla was only some trivial part of the whole beast, but for us it was drawn from years of work. And that’s the whole point. Moz…

It’s your life, your money, and your choice.

Would your life be better if you spent $100 on junk food, alcohol, pot, gasoline or Netflix instead?

Soda is 98% water and 46% sugar.

> It's still significant because it speaks to people being more willing to admit to being part Native. More people are proud to proclaim being First Nations people.

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin

I’m a big fan of H2O. The reason I’m posting that here is because for many years I don’t drink it. I was so used to hydrating from soda and other beverages advertised on TV I compl…

You're not stuck in some evil country. You have Mozilla. If you want to improve it, you can submit code to it. Or start a new browser project by rounding up a dozen friends who fee…

> Why are we at the mercy of … We aren’t at anyone’s mercy. Nobody is forcing us to use browsers from google or Mozilla. We are all free to implement our own UA. The specs are all …

Amber is heterogeneous in composition, but consists of several resinous bodies more or less soluble in alcohol, ether and chloroform, associated with an insoluble bituminous substa…

How about in amber then? How long might we expect DNA to remain intact perfectly encased in amber?

A corporation is neither a human nor an AI. A corporation is a shield behind which humans plot and practice their most deliberate, libidinous schemes of avarice, moderated not by m…

Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555 Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dinos-dna-demise-... The Royal Society https://royalsocietyp…

> Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés? There can be. You can create a universal data format for résumés. You can make the universal data format a world standard in …

> It seems impossible for me to recommend someone do this stuff without having that lifelong level of understanding and context and passion. Your lifelong learning and passion are …

> Bir Tawil is just a worthless desert To you perhaps, but outside of your imagination? “members of the Ababda and Bisharin tribe … carry goods, graze crops and make camp within th…

How do you personally handle tipping, in a restaurant where you know the owner is paying $tiny/hr? What are the cognitive steps you go through to derive your tipping behaviour in e…

> Most of Amazon jungle was, essentially, a big orchard. What is your understanding of the word "orchard"? What is your understanding of the word "jungle"? > You have a great deal …

Just curious how you cogitate it?

> tips were probably 150% of my income That makes you an entrepreneur. But unlike other entrepreneurs, you don’t get to deduct the costs involved with turning up to the market.

Or else they might experience poverty and/or overwork.