Road A: Takes 2 minutes, chance of getting robbed is 80%

Road B: Takes 2 hours, chance of getting robbed is 2%.

What’s the robbery in this analogy? From a liability perspective, using Tor is strictly more risky than routing over the ordinary Internet.

Identity.

I've been on the Internet for 25 years and only got robbed once, and even then, the credit card charges were reversed so it didn't cost me anything other than the annoyance of updating some accounts once I got my new credit card number.

Any system that tries to guess what I want isn't going to work.

For example, when my browsers or mobile devices try to guess automatically when I want audio to start playing, they're almost always wrong.

Open a browser? Why is a video playing in one of my 30 tabs?

Unplug earbuds from my tablet? Why is an audiobook now playing? I didn't even have the audiobook app open, and haven't listened to any audiobook in months.

If your design relies on intelligently guessing what the user wants, but doesn't actually use any intelligence to do so, then your design is shit.

Give users the tools to do what they want quickly and easily. Don't guess.

I've heard it as: It's like a dog riding a skateboard. It's not impressive how well it rides, it's impressive that it rides at all.

But I can't find the original source or anything.

I don't know about the joke format, but the ideology reminds me of the rationalist's version of Baudrillard's simulacra: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/simulacrum-levels

At higher levels of simulacra, the statements people make are less about reality, and more about what they want people to believe they believe about reality.

i guess it makes sense that rationalists wouldn't get along with one of the most polemical postmodern french philosophers, but it is funny to read.

For me, it's the way I say "house". I watched the show House three times all the way through before I realized I say it differently than they say it in the show.

I once posted in subreddit A, and got banned just because I had once posted in the "alt-right" subreddit B (which was an apolitical comedy subreddit).

The gameplay was fun to me when I was literally 5 years old and playing my first ever computer game. I can't understand how an adult would find the Diablo games fun. The atmosphere and art and whatnot are great, though.

Crazy how few dependencies a toy console program needs.

I wonder how minimal a giant web app written in C would be? Would it still compile in a fraction of a second?

It would compile quickly -- on a relative basis -- it would just take 2 - 10x longer to write than something in a language more suited to web development...

And probably also contain a bunch of RCE vulnerabilities.

I've deployed microservices in C! It's a PITA. Not to build, but to get the microservice to accept C. It builds real fast. Then zip, and `aws lambda blah blah` works fine.

Cue the blurry ads lol.

Is there no search engine that outright bans all commercial content?

There are plenty of searches where I want to find what real people are thinking, not what some company's article says. This kind of thing could easily be crowd-sourced a la SponsorBlock.