One analogy might be to the misleadingly named motion picture. We all have heard the stories of early cinema-goers who dove out of the way when the train on the screen barreled towards them. It's easy to make the…
To be fair, it doesn't sound like anyone is literally judging this person for his moral stance -- it sounds like he is judging others for not sharing his morals. They're not making him an outcast; he is literally…
Aliens Can Watch ‘I Love Lucy’: https://www.lscheffer.com/tv.pdf
Let's just do away with the justice system entirely since social media seems to fulfill its functions perfectly.
As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism most of our current assumptions are based…
If Trump and the Republicans confirm a new Justice, Democrats have indicated they will pack the Supreme Court, appointing as many Justices as they feel necessary to get the rulings they want. "If they show that they're…
I think about this a lot. We are the first people in human history to see the planets up close, so to speak. For thousands of years, humans stared up at the sky and watched these luminous dots change position over time.…
> I don't want to be part of a machinery that spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories. You're swearing off the internet entirely?
I want to thank you for linking to the articles, even if you disagree with him. Calling an observation "offensive" and punishing someone for making it, is not refuting it, or even addressing it. America's tradition has…
I imagine others are thinking about this, too. I feel as if we are headed towards either an era of radically secured code where serious vulnerabilities become rare as hen's teeth, or... the discovery that we exist in an…
I'm going to remember this. It's a good way to have discussion if you're lucky enough to have someone who can abstract their personal views from the model that produced them.
The continued fetishizing of child-molestation fantasist, heroin-evangelist and wife-murderer William Burroughs is gross. To place photos of him on the cover of a new book holding a handgun is to mock the murder of his…
I will cite this as "Hliyan's Law" from now on.
Whenever I read about this experiment, I think about Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God", and experience a moment of profound disappointment: https://tinyurl.com/microcosmicgod I won't spoil it for you. It's still a…
No. I'm saying that your face is more public than your fingerprint, and that makes your phone less secure. That's not my primary reason for being against FaceID, but it's an obvious truth that Apple has engaged in a lot…
> FaceID doesn't "take images of your face and environment" though. From "How Apple's New FaceID Works" at Gizmodo: "Face ID starts with an image of your face, but builds on top of it with the TrueDepth’s dot projector,…
There is something ugly about this piece, about the idea that you can see into someone's soul and just know that they'd be a Nazi if they could. To be honest, the tone of it reminds me of the stereotypical pre-Anschluss…
> "Hitler did nothing wrong" went from a provocative joke to a political statement. I'm sort of fascinated by the phenomenon, which I think of as "LOLgical argument". You start off with a joke where the humor is based…
I've never understood why GridCoin hasn't caught on yet. One of the chief complaints about Bitcoin is the utter wastefulness of its hashing mechanisms, with hundreds of times more computing power than the top 256…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/401227.stm
No more Private Tabs.
For anyone curious (as I was), here is the cover of the New Yorker with the seahorse White painted in 1932: http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-April...
> sustainability and care about the environment The reason we have a solar power industry at all is because satellites needed robust long term power sources, not because someone cared about the environment. The first…
They're not being sued for providing a platform for free speech; they're being sued for providing material support to terrorists. Maybe it's impossible to do one without doing both, maybe it isn't. I don't know. Maybe…
I wonder how long it will be until some VC forces the inevitable rebranding of the Soylent name. "We need to reach out to a larger demographic with a name that communicates the value proposition of the product. Liquid…
One analogy might be to the misleadingly named motion picture. We all have heard the stories of early cinema-goers who dove out of the way when the train on the screen barreled towards them. It's easy to make the…
To be fair, it doesn't sound like anyone is literally judging this person for his moral stance -- it sounds like he is judging others for not sharing his morals. They're not making him an outcast; he is literally…
Aliens Can Watch ‘I Love Lucy’: https://www.lscheffer.com/tv.pdf
Let's just do away with the justice system entirely since social media seems to fulfill its functions perfectly.
As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism most of our current assumptions are based…
If Trump and the Republicans confirm a new Justice, Democrats have indicated they will pack the Supreme Court, appointing as many Justices as they feel necessary to get the rulings they want. "If they show that they're…
I think about this a lot. We are the first people in human history to see the planets up close, so to speak. For thousands of years, humans stared up at the sky and watched these luminous dots change position over time.…
> I don't want to be part of a machinery that spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories. You're swearing off the internet entirely?
I want to thank you for linking to the articles, even if you disagree with him. Calling an observation "offensive" and punishing someone for making it, is not refuting it, or even addressing it. America's tradition has…
I imagine others are thinking about this, too. I feel as if we are headed towards either an era of radically secured code where serious vulnerabilities become rare as hen's teeth, or... the discovery that we exist in an…
I'm going to remember this. It's a good way to have discussion if you're lucky enough to have someone who can abstract their personal views from the model that produced them.
The continued fetishizing of child-molestation fantasist, heroin-evangelist and wife-murderer William Burroughs is gross. To place photos of him on the cover of a new book holding a handgun is to mock the murder of his…
I will cite this as "Hliyan's Law" from now on.
Whenever I read about this experiment, I think about Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God", and experience a moment of profound disappointment: https://tinyurl.com/microcosmicgod I won't spoil it for you. It's still a…
No. I'm saying that your face is more public than your fingerprint, and that makes your phone less secure. That's not my primary reason for being against FaceID, but it's an obvious truth that Apple has engaged in a lot…
> FaceID doesn't "take images of your face and environment" though. From "How Apple's New FaceID Works" at Gizmodo: "Face ID starts with an image of your face, but builds on top of it with the TrueDepth’s dot projector,…
There is something ugly about this piece, about the idea that you can see into someone's soul and just know that they'd be a Nazi if they could. To be honest, the tone of it reminds me of the stereotypical pre-Anschluss…
> "Hitler did nothing wrong" went from a provocative joke to a political statement. I'm sort of fascinated by the phenomenon, which I think of as "LOLgical argument". You start off with a joke where the humor is based…
I've never understood why GridCoin hasn't caught on yet. One of the chief complaints about Bitcoin is the utter wastefulness of its hashing mechanisms, with hundreds of times more computing power than the top 256…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/401227.stm
No more Private Tabs.
For anyone curious (as I was), here is the cover of the New Yorker with the seahorse White painted in 1932: http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-April...
> sustainability and care about the environment The reason we have a solar power industry at all is because satellites needed robust long term power sources, not because someone cared about the environment. The first…
They're not being sued for providing a platform for free speech; they're being sued for providing material support to terrorists. Maybe it's impossible to do one without doing both, maybe it isn't. I don't know. Maybe…
I wonder how long it will be until some VC forces the inevitable rebranding of the Soylent name. "We need to reach out to a larger demographic with a name that communicates the value proposition of the product. Liquid…