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You have a moral duty to report your employer for this. Frankly it should be treated the same as treason.

> What's one to do then? GP gives a hint: > You haven't changed your behaviour at all. TLP[1] said it best: > There you go again, thinking about yourself. Your impulse wasn't to sa…

Check out the "Firefox Doom Party" screen shots: http://toastytech.com/doom/ffdoompics.html

Something similar happened to Sega's Shining Force for iOS. I paid $1.99 for it around 2013 or 2014 and it was great. Shining Force is one of my favorite games for the Sega Genesis…

It does! Even though, Martin Richards' homepage [0] hasn't been updated in a while you can try it out with a small amount of fuss [1]. 0: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/ 1: https://…

> I don't remember the Buddha being big on conversation. He did seem to nod silently a lot, but I'm not so sure if he was against conversation per se. Rather, he wasn't big on conv…

Stringer Bell said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8

It makes sense to me: when measuring stuff like you would in a lab use metric, when measuring stuff like you would in a kitchen use imperial. I think it only seems weird because we…

This http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/ might be relevant to your interests.

> So you are admitting you are bad about making decisions about people? Luckily you have something empirical because you are no good at judging someone. This is almost entirely the…

A bit of ambiguity about certain things is an important lubricant for almost all non-romantic relationships. My family has a good idea of my salary (as pointed out elsewhere: they …

> I have no interest in using an app that by default broadcasts my transactions to everyone This is such an astounding deal breaker for me. I'm honestly more than a little surprise…

There's also The Great wall of Gorgan: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irans-great-wall-is-now... > It was so well-known that it allegedly factored into the plans of military …

Huh? Those are all careers that require a high level of cooperation with people you might not like, a general understanding of civics and pro-social behavior, and a stick-to-it att…

This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2orn6T2QFM is a good DIY experiment along those lines and is interesting if not necessarily correct at the nuclear scale.

The subreddit is good too. Some people feel it's a bit too right leaning. I tend to agree. But it's nice to not have the other side shouted down at every chance in at least one for…

I live in Texas. I've seen it all over here and pretty much every other state I've visited in the last few years. Maybe it's an American thing?

This is a really good question and one I think about often. Either possibility is pretty depressing to me.

I think this is the one thing about technology I'm old fashioned about (I roll my eyes hard when people say stuff like "You should delete your Facebook account, you'll be better of…

I know this counts as an accessory that bridges two devices rather than a complete device in its own right but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy . The Switch, as neat a…

Just wanna say: I love this.

It's definitely been a thing for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6otjCKg594

I work at a company that sells ebooks and directly competes with Amazon in that space. All of our infrastructure is on AWS. We could move elsewhere easily if we had to, but we prob…

> Is there actually any actionable information here other than: "Don't make unpopular decisions?" Make sure you actually do a cost-benefit analysis, even if it's just quickly in yo…

A home being hard earned does not preclude the possibility of it being ugly and worthy of ridicule (from an aesthetic point of view).