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I love that these ads had (cornball) personality.

I'm okay with that. What troubles me is that there seem to be two sets of rules at play.

If a company stops publishing a book or piece of software, is it free to share because there's no longer an economic interest?

This seems... troubling to me. Essentially, the judge found that this qualifies as fair use because (a) publishing this with commentary is "transformative" even through "Defendants…

I assume the intelligent designer was fired for this.

I inherited and know how to use a couple slide rules, including a spiral one that’s 46 feet long (1). But if I need to actually calculate something, I use a RPN calculator. Or Pyth…

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Off topic, but I’d love a good travel agent: someone who would help me cut through all the SEO and slop reviews to find the good hotels, tours, etc., and take care of booking and l…

Holy crap. I remember a sign in our dorm bathroom that read, “toilet cam is for research purposes only”. It was a joke, but always got a nice reaction from new people in the buildi…

Unless your data is really unusual, I’d generally recommend that you avoid writing your own query language and processor: it’s just damn hard to make it work well. Instead, look at…

Why is it my job to train the machines?

> Last year, a study found that 4.5% of all bitcoin mining was taking place in Iran... So there is that. But the story ultimately looks entirely based on a tweet [1] from an offici…

That's just not true, though. I say that without taking a position on the merits of jury nullification. Juries are generally charged with determining matters of fact; the judge mat…

I learn everything I need from Ted talks.