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The thing that really bothers me about Weinstein's approach is that, while he and his wife are scientists, they're exceedingly quick to assert their hunches as scientific fact. They wear their scientist labels on their sleeves but their thinking is far more ideological. In a recent podcast about fluoridation in tap water, they were talking about how they avoid iodized salt, because iodine is a reactive chemical and you don't want to OD on it. Ludicrous. You'd sooner die from the sheer quantity of salt you'd have to ingest before the iodine even starts to become a problem.

"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."

A black bar to commemorate the loss of a dear community member, with their death a warning of the real human cost of online toxicity and intolerance.

At my university, the fratboys were far, far, FAR more disruptive than the LGBT groups. But we go with it; fratboy are an accepted pupal stage of American men it seems

Really neat! This ought to be a Hacker News "why don't they just...?" holy grail. Now applying homomorphic encryption to solve privacy woes might actually be possible!

Everything in a single process? Assuming that everything running on the computer is benevolent is a very "so 80s" notion.

Rust programmers use unsafe escape hatches all the time BTW.

It's vertical integration. As long as we're wishing for fairness I wish Apple would share those tasty M1 processors with the rest of the non-Mac world.

Their PR lets them have it both ways.

Toyota makes a version of the Outback, it's called the Venza. People ignore it and buy the Highlander instead.

It would be really interesting if someone could benchmark the performance before and after the transition.

I think that working from the office 5 days a week is on the table if your home isn't set up for remote work.

I'm still bitter about the shutdown of Windows Reader.

>The main obstacle is the bandwidth cost

...hence the ads? How would competitors be immune to the need to pay the bills?

It's not for lack of trying. Microsoft would love to get a taste, but their online products don't stick.

Huh? What does that even mean?