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> Many don't trust Intel processors and Cisco routers anymore In fairness, my lack of trust for Cisco products pre-dated the Snowden revelations, and were based on the products the…

The EU situation sounds much better. To be super clear, we ignored the legal advice, because we considered that it was much fairer to provide the best feedback possible to clients …

Wow, okay, never experienced that myself. OTOH, sounds like you made the right call on hiring :)

> How can you identify brain trauma with ultrasound? Well, put enough energy through the ultrasound transducer and you can guarantee there's brain trauma present. Not sure that's h…

Not just Asian! I live in Melbourne, Victoria. Until we had three children and sent them to a private school, rent and later mortgage was our largest cost by a long margin.

I strongly disagree. My experience with that has been positive, _especially_ when candidates request detailed feedback and I provide it. Caveats: this is in Australia, and I believ…

> at least insofar as they do not work on the kinds of things that I dislike Facebook for. Why do you draw that distinction? Do you believe it's possible to work for Facebook witho…

And the early colonies had their problems too. IIRC at least one colony enacted capital punishment for anyone caught abandoning the colony to join the native American tribes.

It's no crazier than an online bookstore doing it :)

I think both are an example of an aversion to deep learning.

Perhaps to put the question a different way. What is the difference to me, as an individual, what happens to the wealth once it's been taken from me? Since I'm not spending it to f…

Can you elaborate, for the non-linguists? His prescription seems sensible: i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Neve…

I assume so, and it's a lot less hilarious if you have a large family. I'm not from the Middle East but my nuclear family is brushing up against the limit, and I have relatives who…

That is pirate morality, codified.

That is the most refreshingly honest description of progressive taxation I've seen in a while. In other words: progressive taxation destroys wealth creation.

... what a surprise. People seem to think that Google didn't anticipate data hoarders, but in fact, this just seems like a standard hook to get people using a service. (Or a bait a…

Nit pick - the best science at the moment suggests that radiation from Chernobyl killed just two hundred people, and Fukushima zero. Your point is a good one but the specific examp…

It's almost like it's a bad idea to run hardware and software that prevents you from running software they don't approve. As we keep on seeing time, and time, and time again.

You know, there's only one thing that bothers me more than political organisers spreading fear and misinformation through social networks. And that's social networks becoming "Mini…

You do know how much tracking goes on right? It's far from just a matter of paying for ad free content. Hence I'm trying to migrate to PinePhone and get the hell off Android.

Some of the best motor racing I've personally seen was open class motorcycle racing. It was the 90s, so you had road legal GSXR1100s with the lights taped up, mixing it with 125cc …

> Then if someone is acting up, it's only a matter of figuring out which unrelated laws they are already breaking. Rand was writing about this in 1957: "Did you really think we wan…

> Why folks are so willing to carry water for corporations, by making unsubstantiated excuses for them, mystifies me. Because if you don't keep making excuses for them, you're left…

A reasonable person might also ask whether the source of the funding has any bearing on whether or not the Chinese government is attempting genocide.