@GenHeres123@mattyglesias Kinda petty for Andreessen to pose as a public intellectual and then go around blocking mild-mannered people he disagrees with, wouldn’t you say?
@__rasu__@chrislakin What’s actually wrong with wearing old battered shoes? Especially if you have a better use for the money (ie a preference to spend it later).
@johnloeber Were these people “struggling to communicate” or just making grammatical errors? There is a vast gulf between proficiency and fluency, and perhaps it is proficiency that really matters in the civic sense.
@TheAgentPlay@emollick What is the incentive for a journal to make their content machine readable? Who pays for that? I’m all for progress, but science doesn’t just happen for free. We need policy (and funding) to align incentives.