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There really doesn't seem to be anything new about the divide. The only thing that seems new to me is the resistance to the solutions. In any case it may all just be a matter of ti…

Invoking a vague ideology as the root cause feels like a diversion in itself from the basic problem of rich people getting richer while the poor get poorer and more indebted. The o…

"Value" hides a lot of meanings. The quote seems to imply monetary value, whereas there can also be aesthetic value, emotional value, value due to fame/popularity and more. Seems u…

Finally, some disruption amongst the management class. They have a long way to go in the race to the bottom.

I think one of the failures is that UX is designed by people who are comfortable with the abstract, we (usually) know about what is happening in the background, and can figure how …

Eye opening. Did not think it would be this bad even knowing the real estate and internet situation there.

The opposite point of view is that there are way less actual problems in the world, and thinking everything is a problem that should be 'solved' is a problem in itself and hides th…

Why not just fork the language? Why does one language need to do all the things?

Scandinavian languages already have "programmering" for "computering" if you want to sound quaint.

Wasn't Google at one point all about commodity/consumer level hardware for their servers? Seems a huge turnaround.

The reason 90% of everything is crap is that these things like performance and quality are almost directly opposed to business interests/needs. That seems unlikely to change. And i…

Sentence level translations, rather than word or paragraph level, graded by difficulty as beginner/intermediate/advanced. You can look up more about that research from here: https:…

Watching Game of Thrones recently, Brienne of Tarth gets really beaten up in the fight with the Hound. I do not recall having seen that level of prolonged physical action/violence …

I'm hugely in favor of graded sentence level translations especially for adult language learners. It is a more natural form of spaced repetition and requires much less will power t…

>"like-minded people" This particularly obnoxious phrase seems to be coming up a lot more these days. Maybe it is just people admitting they really do not want diversity except in …

21% feels precipitous. The question is if that is just going to different platforms or if people are just more aware of privacy implications and thus sharing less on the internet a…

That was indeed a much better read. Particularly liked the bit about the bells.

While "c'est du chinois" is really not a valid excuse these days, with so many chinese people/students available all across Europe, ready (and hungry) to help Western companies dea…

More people should definitely try out sam and 9term as examples of how much code/features you don't really need and can still get real work done. Personally, I wish sam had even le…

The article does not mention the cost of these houses which would seem to be the major point of information. I think these developments can market themselves a lot better if they d…

Calling something a fad or saying it is too complex to be solved is also part of the willful blindness people seem to have on this issue. I think it is all part of a trend of outso…

Seems more like people are refusing to listen to those who do actually know how to stop it. The resistance to LCHF/IF I've seen and experienced has been ridiculous. People just do …

If anything, the FBI's recent success in cracking the iphone without even Apple's help should tell us that this is merely more security mummery. A mummer's farce if you will. Real …

It can hardly be called a crisis as long as people are still paying those prices/rents. Presumably they have rationally decided the better option for themselves. If/when prices col…

Once you deal with FOMO (the fear of missing out) you are then free to deal with all the rest of your fears, leading to much higher life satisfaction. Stoicism, eastern philosophy …