jamesgreenleaf

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Comment · 5 months ago

"Smart: no start-ups put rats on trams."

Let's hope this remains true.

Comment · 1 year ago

People keep telling me to use Dreamweaver but I stick with what works: FrontPage 98

Comment · 1 year ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250220174125/https://www.wired...

I forget where I read this, but shutting off the cards was part of the playbook when Musk took ownership of Twitter. If I remember correctly, they shut off the cards and waited to see who complained. Apparently they discovered a bunch of subscription services that no one had even signed into or used at all, just paying out for years.

Comment · 2 years ago

Everything older than me is boomer, everything younger is zoomer.

Comment · 2 years ago

I wonder how much of it has to do with the reward. In D&D you get experience points, gain levels, get powerful magic items, etc. There is generally immediate positive feedback when you accomplish a goal or overcome an obstacle in the game world. But in real life, most times the only reward is that the obstacle has been cleared.

Comment · 2 years ago

Stephen Wolfram is a national treasure.

Comment · 2 years ago

What's trite is often true.

Comment · 2 years ago

If the elite are defined as those who benefit from the system, then we are all the elite.

Comment · 2 years ago

> Why would aliens expend the enormous energy required to engineer this?