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I think Siri gets some of its results from Wolfram Alpha.

With your 1000 comments per day, you should know better. Users can't flag posts, they can only downvote posts. Users can only flag articles. My posts are flagged but not negatively…

Dan, you're protecting tptacek from criticism which is absolute bullshit. I very fairly criticized his lack of reading comprehension, and the fact he's not an expert in anything ex…

I have this book, it was such an important and informative book at the time. It's so interesting that such an important book filled with a wealth of knowledge doesn't have much use…

Maybe just stick to discussions on software security where you actually have some credibility. Your reading comprehension combined with your desire for some sort of argument really…

The biggest problem with Thalidomide is that THALIDOMIDE IS PERFECTLY SAFE for the fetus! But the molecule has 2 different shapes, one being the mirror image of the other. All test…

I'm suggesting that sometimes a very small amount of a substance can cause catastrophic effects a decade later. That's why we do testing before we release drugs. And Pfizer isn't t…

Pfizer also made Celebrex, the anti-inflammatory that they knew caused health issues but they buried them and claimed it was safe. We are living in an upside down world now. All of…

Prions are "just" proteins that should get broken down by the body. But they don't, and they cause ‎Creutzfeldt-Jakob in over 10 years after ingesting.

I'm skeptical about the idea that Substack has poor support. I just listened to Chuck Palahniuk on Joe Rogan. He still writes on pads of paper, but he said Substack hand-held him a…

It's a huge pivot to go from flipping houses to becoming a landlord. It would essentially be a disaster for them. That's a high-touch business and probably the costs associated wit…

Actually your comment is pretty bizarre. You're distilling your impressions from thousands of people into a single sentence, and then you're taking a single person's response and u…

Have you asked your coworkers for advice? One thing you have to accept is that there is a problem with the way you communicate. People would not be going to HR if you were as unemo…

Libertarians are absolutely not neoconservatives or fundamental Christians. That's like comparing a Democrat with Antifa.

Same thing happened with Tom Cruise a while back. He fired his publicist and started to go on interviews, and it turns out he's fucking wacky. He was jumping on couches on Oprah an…

You don't have to be a social butterfly to be liked. You just mainly shouldn't be an asshole. And the key is to consistently not be an asshole, otherwise those things will accumula…

How can the SEC and the Treasury let these crypto coins continue to exist when it's so rife with scams? Based on the TOS of Tether, it's clearly as scam with no protections for any…

NTSB and NHTSA can't investigate every single complaint. That's unfortunately not scalable. They would need to talk to the driver, talk to Tesla, get the data, etc. All for somethi…

Yes, it's a little. A 20% increase over a small number is still a small number. I'm not talking relative risk, I'm talking overall risk. Most overweight people still have mild symp…

Except most obese people don't have issues with COVID. This is the thing that is most confounding about COVID. Most comorbidities only increase the risk factor by a little. The big…

I'm going through an interview loop right now, and my biggest pet peeve is when interviewers interrupt my train of thought so that they can correct a bug in my code. Please, for th…

I collect comic books, and I collect limited edition rock n roll photos. I do have a vast collection of digital comics, probably 250GB worth, but I also want the joy of actually ow…

What they really mean is that they need a new generation of Greater Fools to sell their collections to, otherwise the value of their collections will completely deflate. I've seen …

Maybe I'm too old, but I don't know a single person with Oculus, not even among my younger coworkers. I don't discount that it could be the next big thing, because wtf do I know, b…