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Ursula K. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven is an apt exploration of the hubris that this worldview entails.

Here's a story. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle. But not any jigsaw puzzle. An unbelievably huge jigsaw puzzle that's been mixed up with other jigsaw puzzles. Some of them are really old a…

I like to read what people tell me, obliquely or not, to not read. Here are some of the deeply uncomfortable, yet edifying reads: Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of T…

The scope to which I was responding was the assertion that 50kbp/s is not enough to transfer more than a handful of bytes. You are correct that images, encryption, and blockchains …

50kbp/s is equivalent to dial-up speed. 3G was only four times faster at 200kbp/s. I wouldn't say that LoraWAN's speed is the limiting factor. A single second of transmission (i.e.…

To makes Emacs popular again, the core team needs to realize that their actual competitors are desktop environments, window managers, and automation tools rather than text editors …

A larger tank (filling a 5lb tank off a 50lb tank) uses less time and money than exchanging 1lb canisters. It also has the ancillary benefit of supporting local welding supply comp…

My sister went from making $11/hr at a book store to $20/hr staying at home on unemployment. She didn't spend any of it on anything but rent and utilities (we were already providin…

For anyone that's interested in how to make a transition to sparkling mineral water without all the single-use plastic waste, the answer is to DIY. Making a DIY force-carbonation r…

If you're a self-interested min-maxing CEO that makes a disastrous or unpopular decision, hiding behind ethics or morality will not (immediately) result in charges of incompetence.…

Regulations and criminal laws are like dams or levees; With predictable flows, artificial waterways can safely operate within reasonable tolerances assuming everything was done fai…

Here's a solution for $60/year, plus the cost of whatever budget Android device you want or have on hand: A year of unlimited talk/text from Liberty Wireless (a T-Mobile MVNO) cost…

It's strange that the author makes partisan shots, when everything the untethered wings of the body politic believe and act upon are direct antitheses to her written ethos. Some qu…

Amazon isn't doing anything that Chinese manufacturers haven't been doing for years except Amazon is now directly grabbing a piece of the IP infringement pie rather than sponsoring…

This is pretty tangential, but I don't understand why there isn't a roguelike framework available for Emacs. It seems like the perfect roguelike platform for playtesting and hackin…

While I'm sympathetic to the argument that the rise of social media has contributed to the absolute degeneration of public discourse, blaming social media as the cause rather than …

It's a shame that an escalation in civilian deaths is viewed as an evil, but that there are civilian deaths to escalate is viewed as a necessity of foreign policy.

I'd recommend the 2019 pseudo-blacklisted documentary Salafistes^1 (released as Jihadists in the US) if you want an unvarnished view of Salafist Islam. --- 1 - https://vimeo.com/on…

My only experience with ombudsmen is ignored emails until top stakeholders face the pain, then immediate action to resolve their and only their issues.

Good on NYT for coming clean, but this is precisely why I don't trust institutions to vet their own product. "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" is a miss…