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David Deutsch shatters the myth of spaceship earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R6e4xNoarg

Yes it's Bitcoin is inefficient, but in exchange we get social scalability.

https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-...

I switched from Chrome to Firefox 6 months ago when Google started playing games with it's ad blockers.

All of my Chrome extensions and features were supported by Firefox and I was a happy camper.

Then two problems got to me:

1. Slow performance on web apps like Gmail (use it for work)

2. Firefox regularly crashes (more than 10 times per day)

I'm trying to switch to the Brave browser (Chromium) now, but I was almost a Firefox convert.

Uncharitable reading: "a very creepy thing"

Charitable reading: "a funny throw away comment"

After reading this article I followed up with the author book "CROOKED Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting On the Road to Recovery".

As a computer programmer who has just gone through 1 year of bullshit therapies and recommendations, this book is a godsend.

If you have back or neck problems and want some non-bullshit explanations, read this book immediately.

https://www.cathrynjakobsonramin.com/books/crooked/overview/

This article is genius, Greg Brockman has figured this out.

Does NameCoin have all the needed features to make this happen right now?

Fascinating idea. In the areas that this would work, would it not be simpler to just use a normal cell phones data connection or SMS?

Wow amazing! I need this for all other languages, if only for the mapping of Code -> Online API.

In the article they mention:

Experiments show that when HMW-HA is removed from the creature’s cells, they become susceptible to cancer, suggesting it plays a role in making the rodent ‘cancer-proof’.

Agreed. Unfortunately this site has many images and low traffic ( non-profit ), so it doesn't justify the cost of dedicated hardware.

I host large images between 500k and 700k. I store the original image along with 4 different resized versions. The resized images on average account for 35% of disk space.

I store about 300GBs of images. The resized versions take up about 100GBs of the 300.

If I were to then to add retina versions (2x) of each thumbnail, I might be running at 70%+ disk space being used up by thumbnails.

imgix is very interesting, as it would cut my storage costs, decrease my user image upload times ( because I wouldn't have to resize after uploading ). Also I would be free to create 2x retina images, or even new thumbnail sizes as desired.

Only things to justify, are the lock-in with using imgix ( re-writing my site to use it ) and the monthly cost.