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I pay for kagi on my personal machine, it is always a delight when my cmd-t search is answered kagi and not a list of ads ...

"Vanity-URLs" is just a feature, usually a requirement for SSO. I cannot see that that would cause any different treatment of data related to your use.

I don't like corporations in politics. Successful businesses have done a lot of good, but they need to stay out of politics. (Read: And as long as they are in politics the unions h…

There needs to be a balance between the powers of employers, employees and government (as a regulator and moderator between the other two parties). I think any reasonable compariso…

The coolest part is that git supports setting name/email for an entire folder. A new feature in git 2.15 (released late last year).

Ah, didn't know that. I guess they are mainly running on electricity from coal/oil/gas power plants, then.

Cool, lots of cars running on nuclear energy, then!

I have skimmed the book and it presents a skewed picture and is selective about its 'facts'. And some of it is about how the economies are not 'sufficiently' libertarian, which is …

The author seems to have predicted an attack from liberalist Brits. However, what the article describes is real and the Nordics run circles around most countries when it comes to w…

In Norway, there is a max price on child care which makes it affordable and the best option for most people. The government subsidizes somewhere around two thirds of the costs. I g…

Land owners can generally chop down trees as they wish; with some exceptions, which mostly don't apply in these photos. I think there are three main reasons for the increase in woo…

I agree, comparing is probably unfair, but still, 5-6 times higher water consumption is quite a lot and I found the numbers interesting. Actually, most poor people living in desert…

In Oslo, Norway, a city with abundant supply of fresh water, the water use per citizen is about 42 gallons per day. This includes industrial use and leaks from pipes. The city want…

OkCupid has (or had, at least, haven't visited in a while) a pretty decent approach to ad blockers. They detect that you block ads and (after explaining that ads are a big part of …

If you want a process that takes you from problem to product I recommend one I have used in developing several real world solutions, described by Freeman & Pryce in the book "Growi…

Only-slightly-OT: In Norway there is a lot of people (40% in a less than completely impartial survey [1]) who thinks cash will be completely replaced by electronic transactions. We…