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<Captioned image of Miyazaki: Computer was a mistake -- Alan Turing>

Has he done anything but blog, microblog and lispturbate since he sold his E Commerce site?

Techbro was originally used to describe the type of men who made it difficult for women in tech, then somewhere along the line the general public realized the same dudes were also making it difficult for lots if people in lots of places.

If tech folks never actually acted like frat bros, the bro appellation never would have happened. I've worked in offices with Kegs cor crissakes.

Least annoying A/B test.

Fandom/wikia, Pinterest, and similar SEO spam sites basically crowdsourced this.

See also: Zuck and Snow Crash.

GitHub doesn't need to take away the GPL, it's got Copilot to launder any code you like.

It is very weird to see a generation of people too young to remember Vista grow up and not heed the warnings. But I think that it's also a case of kids getting into it via Paul Graham and wanting to start companies instead of getting into it via Stallman and having computers instead of friends.

He's lately been giving in to the urges more and more:

Slurs are fine, actually.

Expansion of the 'not provably not correct' eugenics thing into a massive TLDR that I ain't reading

Wrote this right on the SSC reddit:

Couldn't a very similar argument be made in favor of the Catholic Church though? After all they've founded thousands of hospitals and such. They're very big on charitable giving. Are people unfair by judging the Catholic Church mostly on its religious doctrine and political activism instead of its charitable works?

Every time I hear the name "Richard Hanania" it's in the context of this type of thing or worse. What's his deal?

For the lab leak theory to work you have to assume not only that some workers at the lab got infected, but also that they spread it all over the city before anybody noticed, such that by the time anyone did notice, they were several degrees of contact from the lab workers.

the viruses themselves would be marked with radioactive isotopes.

Is that true? Once the virus replicated in a cell, the new copies wouldn't be tagged, right?