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She won the popular vote by a mile, he won the electoral vote. Some would say she should have been.

Oh that's not nearly the amount of fossil subsidies. Some say it's $31b/yr direct. If you factor in indirect costs like climate damage, health expenses, oil wars, etc, it's much hi…

At $work, r&d once had a retreat with a consultant to discuss why our productivity was too low per some spreadsheet. The consultant was told how everyone is in meetings all day so …

Don't corporate profits depend on the 99% (the poors) spending? If the consumers fail, and stop spending, how long before the corporations feel mildly inconvenienced?

Translation: they won't let us build datcenters on land because we screw things up too much there. And we can't afford space. So we'll do it at sea where we can run all the gas tur…

That's the argument we heard back then too. Smoker's rights to spray cancer to everyone around them. Drinker's rights to smash innocents on the roadways. In reality, the tobacco an…

For a while, we had tons of alcohol and cigarette ads. At some point they were both deemed catastrophically harmful to society. Maybe prediction markets end up there?

In phone terms, that's the $5 wrench problem. The elaborate tech is not relevant if you can be simply coerced somehow to bypass it. Again in phone terms, maybe bring a blank phone …

Egress costs money.

Even if you fix this one, how do you know if you got all of them? How do you know they won't add more another time in some quiet patch? Just stop already, you are in an abusive rel…

"Do you consider your position so weak that it cannot withstand debate?" -- Data, STNG They're afraid of people communicating. That's not a safety thing.

Arithmetic and symbolic math are not the same skills. Anyway it seems to have gotten past its Dyscalculia. > what is 126347832164398 * 127430123748901234 > Compute large integer mu…

Yeah it was Arnie's line briefing Linda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQsG3TKQ0I

I miss DJs with taste and encyclopedic knowledge of their music would challenge their listeners, educate them, expose them to new things. Variations on themes, new artists, connect…

It might make more sense to embed the encrypted volume in some generic USB device. Require some condition to be true before the volume appears to the host, otherwise it's doing pow…

They are trying to confuse voter fraud with election fraud so they can justify ICE election interference in November. There are only a small handful of voter fraud cases per year: …

Kurt Vonnegut advocated for writers to throw away the first chapter of their book. He liked to drop the reader into the thick of it immediately.

There are several cycles that bring tech ideas in and out of fashion because of market conditions, intersecting tech cycles, other implications of Moore's Law, or whatever. Another…

Today I learned you can use generic GPIO PWM to fake an analog voltage. https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Appnotes/90003250A.pd...

I'm hoping someday this will go the same way as other companies trying to redefine "unlimited", "free", or "lifetime". I hope lawyers reclaim "buy", "own", and "purchase" from shit…

This is exactly why Unix PATH (and offspring) does not contain "." by default. If you unpack an untrusted archive and run "ls" you could get popped. Agents should be no different.

Previous generation lefties were often pressured to use their right hand and corrected against their protests. I wonder if it was less conformity and more practicality for fountain…

Those might be called "Field Application Engineers" in some places.

Is infinite scroll really the problem or is it really the whole malicious toolbox and intention of "maximizing engagement"?

We use SPIFFE/SPIRE at work. It works well for our use case, remote embedded workflows that need to phone home. It's very exacting: everything must be exactly right for the attesta…