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What happens when the electricity goes out? And the food in the fridge goes bad and nobody can get to the store because the electric car isn't charged? Have we really thought this through? Redundant energy sources makes sense.

She will still get time though.

Can anyone make an informed guess how many years Ellison will face in prison?

If training data is so valuable, then 4chan should be really valuable, right?

The guy who said "Deplatforming Works" is now getting deplatformed.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-...

That is a great video. If Google is the new Multics and the cloud is the new mainframe, does that mean that AI is the new Unix? AI is the command line?

The only sane comment in this thread.

Every successful social network will spend 95% of its life slowly dying.

Who remembers this IBM ad: Farmer 1: "Have you ever been outside the US?" Farmer 2: "Does Guam count?"

He's just going to pretend it was never a non-profit and he never deceived donors.

I've never seen a good definition of financialization. Some mean by it the increasing use of debt. Here it seems to mean that startups are funded by VCs and not by bootstrapping. I'm not sure financialization is a useful word.

I just put Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 5 and it works great. Saved a phone I was about to discard.

There are manufacturers that explicitly encourage repairability, right? Lenovo? Any others?

Linux would be best for the unsophisticated users that just want a browser and maybe OpenOffice, but those are the users least likely to try it.

The answer is almost always Schaum's and Youtube videos.

Great argument to cut US defense budget in half. If we can defeat Russia for pennies the US is vastly overpaying to defend against paper tiger enemies.

I estimated 1 million ants per person which gets to 8 quadrillion which isn't a bad guess. Kind of suprised there aren't more ants.

So brain drain is bad (when it happens to Russia) but good (when the US does it to India)? India is a desperately poor country that needs Indian entrepreneurs. It's ridiculous to frame this as a loss to the US. It is a loss to the world if the desperately poor in India are never lifted out of poverty by their own best and brightest. The US should encourage them to stay in India.

Very very cool. How come it says it only indexed 487 likes when my account has like 2400? And why is it called syncing? To me syncing and indexing are very different.

Why doesn't a site like Feedly immediately convert a blog or podcast url into a feed if I paste it? Or does that feature exist? It's strange that the intermediate process of finding the feed is necessary. I use getrssfeed com

What are you suggesting?

Any way to limit this to feeds with .mp3 links

You don't think the US military is providing for all of Ukraine's satellite intelligence needs?

Wheat is often subsidized for the poor.

www.Similarweb.com ?

I like you.com but would like the option to search using google if my search on you.com fails. You.com will default to google if there are literally no results, but it disrupts my flow to paste the search terms into google if I don't like the you.com results.

What Yahoo! Finance did right was that if you had a watchlist of 100 stocks, all of the news from those 100 stocks would show up in one feed, instead of 100 separate feeds. It would also be good if I could screen by news source, so that spammers like Motley Fool could be screened out, which Yahoo! did not have. Yahoo also had mass importation of tickers via cut and paste, instead of one-by-one creation of watchlists. It would also be good to have % return of the stock from the day it was inserted in the feed. In terms of charts, it would be nice to have daily / weekly monthly charts in one glance, so I can see trends over different time frames. I don't care about screeners or charting that much because I have other places to screen stocks and do charting, I'm looking for a tool to follow the news and at the same time get a quick glance at the chart over different time frames.

Koyre's From the Closed World to Infinite Universe

Koyre is basically the orginator of the history of science. This was his popularization.

Einstein & Infeld's Evolution of Physics

Picks up where Koyre leaves off.

Am I the only person who uses bookmarks for notes? I will type something like "bizidea - hydroponic urban farming" in the omnibox, save it to bookmarks, and if I want to search bizideas, it's always there. There's also a tumblr I post clips or longer notes to that is also searchable. Any extra step, like opening an app, is a deal-breaker.

There was an academic fellowship with something like a $40 application fee and it got like 1000 applicants so the fellowship was funded by the application fee! That is literally a circular prestige economy.