TremendousJudge

Politics is a mind-killer https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i... …

Also the bits about these people "Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan and Masayoshi Son of Softbank". Two paragraphs of hearsay about the skills and motivations of these people and not a drop of anythi…

Not a valid comparison -- Juicero didn't really manage to sell its product, while many people and companies rent WeWork's space

So relatively we will all be about the same, but in absolute terms we will all be worse off? Where have I heard this before...

Here is the issue explained in 10-minute youtube format by Wendover Productions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k …

I'm using a Raspi4 with Libreelec (this is kodi) and I have had pretty much a similar experience (but with a bunch of OSS quirks of course). A nice surprise is that I can actually control the kod…

You could probably very easily make a list of the "evil" IP addresses if that happened

Oh wow, yeah, won't anybody think of the poor corporations

Isn't it? The "Overview" section doesn't read like standard English at all. I thought it may be ACE

Why did Pebble go under, anyway? They had a solid product that people enojoyed

Sleeping with it on is like half the reason why I wear a wrist watch in the first place

The point of the article is that this argument wasn't what the corporate backers were saying back then -- although of course, it was their true motive, as the article points out as well.

It's probably the French-descended version, like thinking and pensive, or belly and stomach

I tried the pill, couldn't manage to get used to it. I just hope they don't go "we know what's best for you" on this one.

"apple stops getting complaints"

If you are still using chromium you're still part of the problem

even if it takes less time? for driving you have to get to the car, drive, deal with traffic, park, and so on

Roads make driving more convenient at the expense of other transportation methods; being able to walk to the store is more convenient that driving there. You can't do it though if there's th…

>There are, of course, toll bridges and roads, including private ones. (The fact that the laborer doesn’t get the payment is a function of the arrangement between the laborer and the person who own…

you _can_ make amateur music for fun though. you'll never play in a big theater probably, but you'll enjoy yourself and you'll have something to eat

poor Google, making billions of dollars out of other people's work with an automated system where it's impossible to talk to a real person. feel real bad for them

This is a terrible idea. What do you think of software companies that pay "per bug fixed"?

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1963/

isn't this what 4chan did with 4channel.org?

For people in the US and Europe, South America is more remote than Svalbard

And the roaming polar bears

>the places with the strictest border controls are often those that are quite desirable cheeky counterexample: North Korea

Chuck Berry had one of his songs plagiarized note for note though. Sweet little sixteen and Surfin USA are the same song

>Some companies simply aren't meant to be billion dollar companies, yet raise money as if they will be. Well, according to some quick searches the founders seem to be doing pretty alright by t…

the ones on "tech" that profess blind adoration towards these people are the ones that are in it for the profits