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Comment · 6 years ago
Oh huh, I can totally see how that works but would not have predicted it/thought to check because it's not my blog. My apologies.
Comment · 6 years ago
We bought that too, haven't set it up yet.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think you may be a bit different than the modal person being targeted with this site.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's much better phrasing, thank you. :)
Comment · 6 years ago
You mean this blog with default CSS? And barely any site navigation?
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation...
Comment · 6 years ago
Obligatory Sci-Fi premise:
https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-al...
Comment · 7 years ago
More in this vein: Your superior knowledge won't even give you an edge in technology investing/founding.
I definitely find the OP's perspective a little obnoxious. Being less-wrong is actually fairly easy (in the grand scheme of things), the problem is that nobody cares about being right.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah, hearing TG's UI/UX described as not good made me do a double take. It's the best UI I've ever seen in a chat app, and I've probably used at least a dozen by now.
Comment · 7 years ago
>The actors I've seen taking advantage of it are highly unlikely to front up with a credit card and provide what amounts to personally identifiable data (i.e. make a credit card payment) in order to mass enumerate the API.
Unless they just steal a credit card. Not unlikely, given who we're talking about here.
Comment · 7 years ago
>as soon as legislation is introduced by governments to make the parties producing software or hardware responsible for the stuff they dump on the open market.
AKA the plausible end of open source. Once writing any program and sharing it can get you sued, people will stop doing that.
Comment · 7 years ago
>I had a high school teacher who described what he called a failsafe study method:...
At this point you should just use spaced repetition. It's what I did, it has the same effects for a lot less work.
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