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Why? There’s always a lot of hand-wringing and FUD around giving people ID numbers, but never a coherent rational argument. What makes it a big brother nightmare for all humans?

I assume it’s a simple accidental transposition of “case in point”, an instance or example that supports, or is relevant or pertinent to, what is being discussed. https://www.merri…

I use 1password with Fastmail integration to create unique email addresses for each login. This new “sipping from thimbles” approach to authentication breaks that because iOS and/o…

South Africa’s violent crime problem isn’t despite its wealth, it’s because of the wealth and, crucially, the inequality in its distribution. Higher inequality is associated with h…

In many police departments in the US the problem is essentially that there are so many bad apples that every good apple that comes is spoiled or cannot do good. This can only be ch…

> Debian doesn't ask people before including their packages, and ex. nixos pulls directly from those "non-distribution" channels. Then Debian (or NixOS) are publishing the code for…

https://index.medium.com/career-advice-nobody-gave-me-never-...

It is fundamental to all markets in the real world. It is also a defining trait of the platonic ideal of a free market, and one of the reasons why the platonic ideal absolute free …

There is no true free market in the world. One of the defining characteristics of a free market is perfect information. This is one of the downsides of market imperfections.

From TFA: "In theory, this limits one’s visibility to aerial surveillance vehicles employing heat-imaging cameras to track people on the ground."

I agree with the point you are making. In the spirit of agreement, I would suggest that the right question is "what is it about your relative's blood test that you specifically wan…

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Would turning your computer off, help? I can see it helping for normal EM interference, but in an apocalyptic EM pulses scenario I thought the induced current would be enough to da…

We're already working on a mosquito genocide solution. Ever since the Nature article ( http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html ) about how the ecosystem would be f…

iirc, Steve Wozniak did something similar: when Apple went public without giving anything to the early employees, Woz basically gave/sold (cheaply) them stock from his own holdings…

It's so good to know I'm not the only one still boycotting them! I was actually starting to reconsider it when the GeoHot thing happened and renewed my resolve. In this case, I don…

If we killed off other humanlike species because they terrified us, wouldn't we have also killed off other species that terrify us, like snakes, rats, cockroaches and spiders? I ca…

And hobbits! The BBC article Homo Floresiensis. From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis ) Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man", nicknamed "hobbit") is a possible…

I've worked with worse: John Smith 123 Some Street Blah Blah Blah ... and so on. I can't think of any advantage to (or excuse for) doing it this way. The only possible reason for i…

I know the opposite has been done, on a grand scale. A group of residents in a local suburb were complaining that a iBurst's (a local wisp) newly erected tower was causing headache…

I can't listen to it right now. Could someone please transcribe it?

I have a friend who used to use what he called "the hat system": when a creditor phoned to complain about his account, he'd explain that every month, he put the names of everyone h…

For what it's worth, I understand the point you are trying to make. I understand that you are not looking for a job. I understand that you do not hope to work for the company that …

The Degree of Hitler for Kevin Bacon is: 2 The Path: Great Depression Adolf Hitler

"Leave a missed call" was so popular in South Africa that the networks implemented "Send a call me", where you send a GSM code with the target person's phone number and the network…