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Most people voluntarily imprison themselves in conventional, middle-class values because they have been brainwashed.

Your "logic" is bullshit because luck doesn't exist. Capitalizing on timing, risk tolerance, excellent anticipatory judgment, self-control, and rich parents also help.

Are you going to lecture me about women, online Mr. Pickup artist?

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Yep. I was a freelance technical consultant for 10 years. Stanford University School of Medicine wouldn't pay my invoices. All you can do is keep asking politely for weeks or month…

Okay, chief, you know it all. Liquidating assets causes significant losses.

That's what doesn't compute. The wisdom and care required to have and keep billions requires a certain pathological, insouciant public face or internal armor. Sure sexual thrills a…

Birds of prey would probably be better at it and more trainable. I've see way more videos of hawks taking out drones than shore birds.

While tech advances are cool, I secretly do too. Like Mother Nature's vengeance and reminder that technology isn't invulnerable. Now if critters could just disable Russian tanks, t…

I don't understand marital instability when you're rich and live in a community property state. Either stay married because there's way too much to lose or stay single, but to phil…

Humans can detect mercaptans down to ppb but I suspect they require a fermentation process to create. Also, I wonder how it handles eating asparagus.

Bill Gates will be the number two.

Standardization by centralized administration, reduction of rogue external and DIY options, concentrating efforts on delivering managed services based on a common and repeatable pl…

There's an excellent book about this topic. Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silverglate. Convictions for white-collar crimes aren't about stopping significant crime, they're about b…

AT&T - too big to jail, worst UX, worst service, and worst customer service ever. Until CEOs end up in prison, nothing will change and there will be no consequences. It will never …

It was mostly for running NFS to talk to other UNIX boxes, not to run UNIX software. To make a Windows NT box UNIX-ish, there was MKS Toolkit. It predates Cygwin, msys, and djgpp.

An interesting footnote is that installing the web browser package on AIX caused a telemetry dial-home to Big Blue. I found this because it was keeping our ISDN BRI leased line up …

If you want money, ask for advice. If you want advice, ask for money.

Attack and shrink healthcare for the poor and all the good it does with selective attacks on the edges. The motives are transparent.

You're making a snap value judgement that offers no value. Perhaps you should keep your disrespectful comments about other people to yourself.

There are many stupid choices: violent religious extremism, picking altercations with strangers, snakeoil wellness products, driving a giant diesel SUV without a seatbelt, trying t…

It's morally indefensible to create incurable bacteria or another pandemic, destroy antibiotics' effectiveness, and destabilize the climate balance of the only planet we have throu…

Animal welfare, while laudable and under-appreciated, isn't the biggest problem with meat ag. It's fucking killing us slowly and may kill us quickly.

That's historically the least-persuasive argument for vegetarianism. The far greater threats are anthropogenic climate change, antibiotic resistance, accelerated pandemic evolution…