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Those sure are some small California residents.

I would pay a monthly fee for a web browser if 1. It could be bundled into my monthly internet bill 2. The fee was not more than 10 USD 3. The browser had actively developed ad blo…

Good to hear about the R&D-friendly stock exchange. I hope this and eventually private equity will enable Chinese tech to do well enough that they don't need to pursue the less lau…

I don't think China misreads the protests, however their state media depicts it. They see it clearly as a challenge to their authority. It is a push for greater independence for Ho…

I envision the practice of performance psychiatry as part of a broader 'neurochemical infrastructure,' to use the phrase of an old hippie, who saw psychedelics as another part of t…

Goldwater, in particular, brought a greater skepticism of expertise to American conservatism, which has come to define it.

A trend that seems implicated in what Nichols reports but that he doesn't touch on much is the secularization of identity. Expertise is much more threatening to people's egos as pe…

That's definitely the feeling I've gotten from the Debian repositories, which are very cautious about what to distribute. I was thinking about it in the abstract.

What an informed reply! Thank you for pointing out the influence of mobilized, coordinated resources on security. I will have to factor this perspective into my own and reconsider.…

This is a flaw with the repository model for software distribution: it confers the authority of the OS developers to packages not scrutinized to the same degree. Users' metal model…

We can reasonably disagree about the quality of their security. More generally though tech diversity makes a difference in security: Dan Geer did an excellent talk about this.

What Wikipedia records about it is precisely all I knew about it. Thank you for the exposition and commentary. I don't think Linux nerds' taking the case personally is weird, thoug…

So that more secure implementations than MS's can offer a transition for organizations dependent on it.

Antitrust law isn't a tool to secure democracy but to secure competition. I don't think the worry is about actions taken by Microsoft hurting democracy; the concern is MS systems b…

The last time antitrust action was taken against Microsoft ( United States v. Microsoft Corp. , filed in 2001), law folks' tech-illiteracy and Microsoft's slitheriness led to a pen…

That would be a much better law than the lawmakers'.

Metzinger, Being No One (2004) may be just the step forward to which you refer. The prereflexive sense of self (as, say, a point-source of will and identity) is empirically inaccur…

Everyone but the most callous of businessthralls has felt, at times, the same reaction as Keynes elicits here, against the ugliness of a world turned by free trade and markets. Suc…

The rebuttal takes a view which is close to my heart—but [Motl] puts it so viciously, dismisses without genuine inquiry or curiosity the intriguing claims of the article, and plays…