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Get a library card! My local library card includes free digital access to newspapers " from 100 countries in 60 languages" as well as streaming video, audiobooks etc. They also hav…

No, but the U.S. needs to catch up with plastic cash. Laundering cash can be a good thing ...especially during a pandemic!

I recently agreed that yes, "the vaccines have been tested on millions of sheep"... and now the chickens can get shots. I didn't get the opportunity to use that in person.. let me …

That's encouraging to me as I feel that those are areas in which I've done well. I guess I get the most value out of staying up to date on the newest tools by knowing when NOT to u…

I'm in a similar situation but with an even bigger gap. My strategy, so far untested, is to concentrate on a newer technology where I can be a bit rusty but no worse than anyone el…

I thought I'd see if I could build an 8mm film scanner using stuff you can buy at the dollarstore to leverage your smartphone. So kinda the google cardboard of film scanners. I've …

Apart from the higher numbers a good reason to be concerned about the novel coronavirus is the "novel" part. The 1918 pandemic was initially known as the three day flu but the seco…

Then one of the whatsap co-founders initiated the Signal Foundation! See "2018–present" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29

Maybe they didn't fail us... Wikipedia: On February 21, 2018, Moxie Marlinspike and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton announced the formation of the Signal Foundation

This is very interesting and reminds me of something I read 4 years ago. I had wondered about data compression related to brain research after I had read this blog: https://probabl…

Not only that.. but depending on where you're from and where you traveled you might have more trouble with reverse culture shock. We in the west tend to be quite wasteful and this …

1 month trip, skipped return flight; became a 6 month trip. another 1 month trip turned into 7. last second 2 month trip... got home 2 years later! Not having a planned return date…