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"There is no conceivable outcome of cosmological modeling that will drive policy changes like that."

We hope

ARPU of $667? I guess there must be other revenue sources ...

The "never phone home" UI should make it clear that it will still phone home to check for updates.

But I'm sympathetic to Github here. Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect insulation from sending their IP address to Microsoft.

"Due to the poor performance of Lingo on the VAX, a subsidiary company, Linn Smart Computing Ltd., was formed to develop a new processor to efficiently run Lingo."

y tho

Seconded!

I wouldn't have known about them if you hadn't posted. Kind of a bummer Chrome doesn't show alt text on hover any more.

SF shouldn't be associated with SJ in my opinion. He lived and worked in the peninsula and just came up here to give talks.

Ah I didn't realize that's what he meant by five months old

I have a first-generation Pixel, so a couple years old now, and it accessed the test site fine.

BigQuery is usually intended for data warehouse use cases, where missing the most recent 23 hours of data is less of a big deal. It's intended to feed things like exec dashboards, not production systems.

Had to scroll three-quarters of the way down the page to find the first person who read the article. Hi!

"Autechre are my Phish."

Haha, so accurate. I don't usually play Autechre when my roommates are home.

Is it possible to operate a lightweight forwarding service, so my address is portable across servers?

I wouldn't care if it was 100 feet closer.

I think it's going to be easier to build housing than to make network effects in industries not matter. You can just smear the companies across the country like they're butter.

I live in a Victorian in the Castro. There's a four (?) story housing project down the block. It's 100% fine. I understand not everyone feels that way, but we have a housing crisis, and housing people is more important than views.

I can't find anything on metatalk that looks like sniping at cortex - but then, I'm way out of the MeFi loop at this point. Link?

Fantastic comment. Love the chess example. Thanks.

Standard economic theory predicts that the market will underfund public goods - goods where one person's consumption doesn't diminish another person's capacity to consume. R&D is a public good: https://www.asm.org/index.php/ceo-blog/item/5727-the-public-...

Ahhhh thanks for RTFA for me

It looks like they limit the radius of wilderness to the US border. The circle for Boundary Waters would be bigger otherwise, since the Quetico (on Canada's side) is wilderness as well.

This is SO COOL

While the general point is true, she actually publicly changed her mind about Strava in particular (which is amazing, all respect to her, no one does this in heated public debate.)

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/958702722232012801

I agree in general, but this is a service whose sole purpose is collecting route and time information about your workouts. It's a map-centric UI if you've ever used it.

Strava just wouldn't exist if they didn't collect that data, it's the core of what they do - and I want Strava to exist, it's great!

There's a problem here, but maybe it's letting people use their own pocket, sensor-enabled supercomputers in secure locations?

I thought this was going to be a way to translate arbitrary text into a universal "voice", so you could post online without your writing style giving you away.

WHICH blockchain, though?

Thanks for RTFA for me >.<

Volvo is very, very serious about safety. I'm amazed they're this confident.

Not just psychology, look up the linguistic turn in philosophy in the 20th century.

There is support for a weak version of Sapir-Whorf, but in general any time someone says "the limits of your language determine the limits of your thought" I just s/language/culture.

The paper is available (in HTML even) and much better: https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/58/5/5.39/4159289/...

Except San Francisco is paying the price for Mountain View and Palo Alto being willing to add jobs but not housing. Arguing "well then those cities should build housing" is true, but misses the point: given that people can commute, city boundaries are sort of irrelevant. It's a regional problem.