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I'm not lack of control is the deciding factor here. People still accept car accidents even if they're not the ones driving the car, such as when you're riding a bus.

How can something be a crime if there are no victims?

Wouldn't that mean they don't get away with most murders?

This blog post inspired me to do a similar analysis using Urban Dictionary words instead: https://medium.com/@carnye/the-funniest-anagrams-of-urban-di...

The utilitarian approach is such an interesting way to frame problems like this. It's obviously wrong for me to murder to my neighbor for their organs, even if those organs could save five other lives. But is it okay for a car company to roll out an AI program if it saves more lives than it costs? When viewed from afar the utilitarian mindset is always so alluring.

One of my favorite quotes from Making Money, discussing the true power of gold:

"It’s in the city itself. The city says: In exchange for that gold, you will have all these things. The city is the magician, the alchemist in reverse. It turns worthless gold into…everything."

People have a finite amount of time and energy. How do you choose what to prioritize if not by saying that some things are worse than others? They didn't say that some things don't matter, just that it doesn't come close ethically.

Still, if it's a process as poorly understood as dying of old age, saying "made me wonder if any of her longevity can be credited to having a severely calorie restricted diet" seems like a reasonable response.

Your thesis is basically, ratings mean absolutely nothing, and how good something is should solely be based on how popular it is?

The article lists https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:moment:20161019 as an example of a vulnerability (although not one that is tracked). Could someone explain how a Javascript vulnerability could cause a DDoS? Even if it does cause Moment to hang, how would that affect the server?

> For example, the profile page could be potentially very light, and there would be no reason for that if someone is linked directly to the profile page; it should load every single piece of Javascript in our project.

There are plenty of ways to do that with single Page apps; it's not a great argument against all single page apps, just poorly designed ones.

Those are some absolutely stunning photos! I love the design and layout.

A Reddit alternative where the ranking for posts was personalized to each user. The ranking would be based the similarity between the voting history of the people who've voted compared to your own voting history. Think Netflix recommendation algorithm for Reddit.

One I don't see recommended very often is: Fortune's Formula. It describes the lives of Claude Shannon and Ed Thorp (author of Beat the Dealer) and how they use the Kelley formula in both gambling and investing. The Kelley formula, as the book explains, is a formula for determining the optimum amount to bet on a wager (or investment) if you know the edge you have over the house.

I strongly agree but I'm left wondering, what would a falsifiable experiment look like in this case?

Since this article's been written, the eslint-airbnb version chaos has been sorted out and is fixed with v10.0.0. It was a pretty annoying mess for a while, there.

I thought this article was a pretty good overview of the team, and it did at least acknowledge the difficulty in separating the ownership from the start player, in terms of success. But one part at the end seemed super out of place.

> He confided that he figures he’s one of the 10 best blackjack players in the worl

What? How can this man be thought of as a shrewd businessman by anyone after saying something like that. The only possibly explanation could be that he's referring to card counting, but I doubt he's playing million dollar games against people that don't realize what he's doing.

Does this render all the React content server-side first? I wasn't able to figure out from an initial glance through the files.

This is a really cool idea, accidentally pressing my Sublime shortcuts on website forms is definitely a very common mistake for me.