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All this and more is covered in a fascinating article about the development of the technology: http://ethw.org/First-Hand:Recollections_of_the_development_... …

A book just came out which addresses this: "Agorithms to Live By" ( http://algorithmstoliveby.com/ )

How about something that prevents purchasing, or forces a 1-day wait. The best way to same money is not to spend it, and most of us don't need half the stuff we buy....

2) They have never been the lowest prices - you could, and still can, almost always find better prices elsewhere. But for the majority of people, the convenience is worth the extra cost. 3) No other s…

Depending on how you count, Amazon has made ~5 campus moves in the last 20yrs. So far, so good...

Yep, happened to me and I've never used FileVault again. I had a TimeMachine backup too but hadn't synced recently and ended up doing a bunch of hackery to recover the un-synced data :( I mu…

He'd just stick to the basics and write C-style code in the given language, he had no knowledge of any of the language idioms and didn't need them if he kept his code simple enough. Basicall…

My manager (a long-time-ago former dev) once told me: "I can write C in any language." And it's true. He could write beautiful C code in Perl, Java, Ruby, etc - whichever language the c…

FTFY: "I don't understand why those who spend most of their time __using tools__ focus so much on the tools they use to do it." It should be more self-evident now. When there are many t…

Omitting names to protect the (sorta) innocent :)

When AI can create prize-winning art (literature, art, film) then I will become scared, as the only role left will be consumer.

Also, why is the 2FA option hidden under "Privacy" and not right next to the Change Password option? You'd think they would want to advertise 2FA better...

Written ~2004, still used by over ~5k ppl. Even had an intern steal the idea and create a startup.

Alas, you don't know what will happen until it does happen. It could be as simple as "Wow, Joe reported Bob for sexual harassment, but Bob didn't do anything wrong - I was there. Now I …

Because Amazon's profit is only a few pennies per sale. You're basically asking Amazon to double their profit margin by raising prices, and then give away half of it to fix social injustice?…

Actually, ION was originally developed for C++ and took quite a while to gain Java support. Source: I was there.

There was Al Jazeera America, but it couldn't make itself profitable. But we still have Al Jazeera English: http://www.aljazeera.com/ …

I still meet people who are unaware that Amazon sells more than books. Many people are just not that connected/don't care.

This is an older, but very practical and educational read: http://smile.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy... …

These are people I already know? Or others on the site who are interested in forming a team? What if my team is too large/small to be hired? How do we know what kind of teams the company is worki…

Nowhere does the website explain what it is/does? At list this page scrolls: http://adventurega.me/bootstrap …

You don't have to be a subscriber to use Instacart.

Any height is an advantage in achieving orbit. It's an exponential problem - you need fuel to go up, and you need more fuel to lift the fuel you need to go up, etc. Also, air resistance is much m…

1. That's fine, most ppl don't need the answer now , they need it soon enough to not be blocked. 2. Any answer without context is useless, even verbally. So include the question with the an…

And yet this problem has already been solved with composting toilets for many years. Why do we need to build such a fancy and complicated device when all you need is to pee in a separate bucket from y…

1) That's what docs/training are for. 2) Writing the answer down in a wiki takes exactly the same amount of time as writing the answer in email. It doesn't need formalizing, just record…

Exactly that - they talked with each other, told stories, passed on oral histories, and created very high quality crafts. There was labor, but it was not "brutal". Food preparation, tool…

i.e. A lot of distributed systems problems can be simplified if you can trust your clocks.

A similar toolkit, RecordStream, with support for many types of inputs beyond CSV: https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream …

Eat healthy. Seriously, the fatigue is almost-always due to crashing blood sugar. Very rarely are we working hard enough to actually be mentally exhausted (like those 4hr physics exams in school). Eat…