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A government can only acquire revenue by siphoning productivity ("nice things"). The organization and its agents bear no consequence for mistakes in the allocation. It has no means…

Not ad nauseam. There's a floor, an equilibrium where countercyclical forces take over. (Besides: many people agreeing with this sentiment maintain that growth _per se_ is already …

It's a last-gen device. Why not interpret the lack of fanfare -- by design, a user won't even notice the swap -- as a soft launch? The smart home space has always been a shit show,…

"Beep as anti-stalking measure" is somewhere between marketing spin and gaslighting. A lost AirTag chirps to serve its primary function of being recovered. The timer is 3 days[1], …

I think an apt analogy is Google Glass. It went without saying they didn't invent surreptitious video recording. This didn't prevent _overwhelming outcry_ over legitimate privacy c…

"Buy a game, get free hardware" is back for Resident Evil. https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10495261?hl=en

"Encrypt, store, share [files] on your own terms" is elegantly handled by (Rob Pike's) Upspin. Practically: upspinfs fusermounts a cloud storage bucket. (TCO: $0.01/GB/mo.) Transpa…

There are people who would blot out the sun, and take satisfaction in it. They don't bother me nearly as much as the taboo against speaking frankly about them.

Who does the coordinating, to what purpose? By what right, at whose expense? Why isn't coordination the grand experiment? Glancing nervously through history, or in the mirror, it's…