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Apps are too risky. The risk that any app will, now or in the future, be hacked, sold or just changed to suck all the data from your phone and send it somewhere you don't want it s…

> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Yes, but: "Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice"

Is America the same as China? If you can't tell, here's food for thought: How many people want to leave China to go live in America? How many people want to leave America to go liv…

You're absolutely right, it's like a switch flipping in the brain. Maybe a way to get there, or to try to explain it in a different way would be: You have to hate "having the item …

I was "cured" of my procrastination when I "discovered" the best way to not having things I hate to do in my to do list was to do the things. It sounds silly because it is. Just do…

Minority or not, if you use DDG, you will not see an AMP page. What do you want, to search for stuff or to feel that you're supporting the winning team or something?

I use duckduckgo on Firefox and I don't see any AMP pages. Give them a go.

Firefox is going to win again, by the way. We are the same intransigent nerds that originally moved to FF over IE6 on principle, only this time also with more disposable income (Yo…

Just recently moved to fastmail with my own domain, and I am slowly moving all my accounts to it. It definitely has fewer features than gmail/calendar, and a less "slick" UI, but y…

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Or lies.

People being afraid of C++ is not as big a problem as people not being afraid of C++