File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all

This is only half correct. Doing science right does require an unrelentingly skeptical attitude, but the other half of it is that you have to know what you're aiming at: predictive correctness. Scientific theories are machines for generating predictions of future observables.

The freedom to speak must include the freedom to speak in ways that others find hateful. This is settled law in the United States, and should be elsewhere. Why? Because if you accept that there is a hate exception to protected speech, you will swiftly find that the boundaries of

I've been telling people for more than 40 years that the reason I'm a software engineer is because it's the only way I know to get paid for being an experimental epistemologist

I'm a big fan of speaking damned facts, so I'm going to be more explicit than Wylfċen (who is female) is. Reading evo-psych can really help men understand why women are usually, by male standards, irrational, fickle, and socially suggestible to a fault. These traits don't come

Yes, the right to bear arms is a natural right held by everyone, U.S. citizen or not. Along with the right to free speech. The US government should under no circumstances act in any way to deprive non-citizens of those rights, and that includes non-citizens resident here.

Amen, brother. I had a 12-ounce ribeye at Texas Roadhouse last night that was really quite good. I know where I can get better, but better is so much more expensive that I can't justify it except for very special occasions. We schedule having a steak every two weeks, or about 26

This is true. The truly intelligent know that they can't be mistaken for dimwits. Another distinguishing trait of really bright people is that they're not afraid to say "I don't know." I don't know whether Trump has that one or not.

This is a very interesting idea.

Minor mystery of the universe: Oh, Amazon Kindle recommender algorithm, you've been watching me pick science fiction and naval adventure stories and the occasional Western and spy thriller and other kinds of heavily male-coded fiction for years. So why in the bleeding fuck do

I feel you, brother!

Tragic truth: you can't make your work valuable. Only demand from others can do that.

The framers of the U.S. Constitution recognized two different kinds of rights. One they explicitly called natural rights; the other they never explicitly labeled but we can call them political rights. Natural rights are, as you say, "natural and inherent". They include the right

There are two kinds of atheists in the world; I call them goal atheists versus process atheists. Quoted tweet is describing a common variety of goal atheist, someone who emotionally develops the rejection of religion as a terminal goal and organizes their beliefs around that.

I'd be more impressed if not for the incorrect apostrophes.

"Pick the [occupation] where you will love most of the parts that nobody will ever see." Endorsed. Applies even more to programming. If you don't love the process, love the work itself rather than just the end product, you'll be miserable and won't do well. Probably applies to

It was difficult for me to watch this video all the way through to the end, but it reminded me of something important that I think a lot of people at and above IQ level 100 don't understand. It's something I only understand myself because travel is broadening. This video is what

Endorsed. I'll add that I would rather read "poorly written but interesting" than "stylistically glossy but boring or toxic" any day of the week. I blame Henry James and the other early 20th century exponents of the "novel of character". They ended up accidentally laying waste