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The number of men in the US aged 18-30 reporting no sex in the previous year has almost tripled since 2010 [1]. It seems there are economic or cultural factors at play besides not …

Forget the media, ask the former Federal Reserve president who literally wrote that "if the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed offi…

The 1860s when the Irish in NYC refused to fight for their new country, killing over 100 people and ethnically cleansing most of Manhattan? Or a few years later when two different …

Reduce wealth inequality through industrial and fiscal policy, don't stuff cities full of millions of culturally distant immigrants (distant from both each other and the existing p…

The car thing is another big one. Almost every car, truck, or SUV made in the past few years has a cellular connection, either for tracking purposes or infotainment. A determined a…

If your cities immediately turn into "tribal warzones" when they lose utilities, you've definitely made some governance failures well before the cyberattack.

It can also be illegal when VCs do it: "Pricing below your own costs is...a violation of the law [if] it is part of a strategy to eliminate competitors, and when that strategy has …

I would love to know the organizers' opinion on whether these various uses of AWS "accelerate oil and gas extraction," i.e. whether they would be allowed on AWS: -The engineering o…

"There's no cloud: it's just someone else's computer (and it's run by people who hate your guts)"

Google Search has gotten worse in the past few years in my opinion. It seems biased towards newly published content and content from the top 100 sites or so. Before it felt like yo…

6. Pretty much everything about AMP: forcing sites to conform to a standard they created in order to show up in search, a standard that doesn't let sites control their UX or intera…

NYT and other legacy newspapers depend on traffic from Facebook and Google to continue existing and are threatened by things like AMP and new media in general. If newspapers demons…

Perhaps, the NRA has been already declared a domestic terrorist organization by San Francisco. I think everyone wants to avoid TSA agents questioning passengers when the last time …

This is a little comforting, but I doubt the secret rulebook is going to cover everyone's concerns.

We need to start thinking ahead about who is going to run the federal agencies and "tobacco truth" type organizations funded by the billions of damages from the inevitable settleme…

To avoid this: Firefox with uBlock Origin and resist fingerprinting setting on. Use private mode whenever you don't need logins. Bonus: Use a $3/mo VPN to dodge your ISP's tracking…

How are precise reading logs of websites that help people learn about and treat mental health conditions not "mental-health information"? "Subject A traveled from a house (maybe no…

Yes, every mouse movement, unsubmitted form input, scroll, highlight, and so on. This stuff can also be used to fingerprint you. LiveSession, Inspectlet, UXCam are competitors. uBl…

It's amusing that now the (to me, fairly natural) "strangely gratifying...withholding of details and delaying of pleasure" is portrayed as "[casting] off the imaginative constraint…