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Consider that risk aversion is not a bad trait — google “three fund portfolio” and the theory behind it. Stock speculation is time consuming and akin to betting. Know when to appre…

Try playing a longer game. Pick your favorite tech and join a local group for it, and meet every time they do. Instead of the discomfort of the phone interview, you'll need to tack…

This tool is the lowest-barrier-to-entry to get into circuit design -- used the applet after trying commercial/trial tools (including "cloud-based" ones), and all failed me.

How many of you have received contracting or job leads purely from blogs/articles you've written? What sort of posts were they, and for what sort of client? Are they heavily domain…

I see testimonies here in comments by freelancers who are using 10xmanagement to source work. This specific product posted here seems to be for something else: you have a gig lined…

Their delivery service is frustrating. It seems to be the norm, and accepted, that drivers will mark packages delivered a full 24 hours ahead of time and do the delivery the next d…

Interesting, though I must ask: Why YML instead of a DSL? Granted, I come from Ruby, and writing DSLs is pretty typical. Maybe not so popular in Python. I am asking this because I …

I am curious, is it possible that countries / regions share such lists? i.e. would refusing to comply with a digital search at the US border possibly affect me in EU?

I'm going on a trip to Canada within the next month, from the US, as a US citizen. I want to be let into Canada without issue, so am taking a burner smartphone connected to a non-c…

Contraband can be digitally transmitted without physically traversing a border. Given this, what purpose is there to performing extended searches (potentially of cloud / remote dat…

I like to think of it in terms of house keys. It's one thing if a border guard inspects your house key you brought along, analyzes for dangerous substances, drugs, etc. It's anothe…