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"Starting at $2,199" Freedom isn't free, apparently.

A close read of the statement suggests that this is more of a feel-good thing and not much to worry about. If those tribes get actual sovereignty over those waters, they’ll soon fi…

The statement notes that the waters are “also claimed” by the California state government, which “supports the concept” of tribal stewardship. This whole thing seems pretty insubst…

Take it down a notch, please.

This is an excellent description of the trajectory of Digg, the first platform I witnessed going through this lifecycle. In this case, the competitor that drained users from Digg w…

I too have been trying to think of a more civil version of this word lately. Entrashment? Crudification?

And to make matters worse, much of that loan from the federal government was paid to fraudulent claims - it was ripped off by scammers.

They were sharing private patient info with advertisers, despite promising not to. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23622227/betterhelp-custom...

After the Better Help fiasco, I’d imagine people would be very hesitant to use something like this without some kind of third-party auditing and certification that their data aren’…

I don’t think so, the transmitter was under the power limit for amateur FM, and it didn’t overlap any local stations. That was my interpretation of the law as I read it before I bu…

During pandemic I set up a little automated FM radio station for my block and the surrounding ones. It had a voice-synthesized DJ and a big randomized playlist of great music. The …

No, Harvey Weinstein went big, he had a private offshoot of Mossad at his disposal. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-a...

Lighten up, Minkowski.

And I thought I couldn’t hate sports betting any more than I already did. The ghost of Walter Annenberg is still haunting that slimy industry.

You’re talking about two very different eras and this two different sets of people.

A medium rare New York strip is, to me, delicious, and it doesn't need anything, not even salt. I don't eat such things anymore, but still: delicious.

Recruiters know that layoffs are often an opportunity to purge the lower-performing employees.

Indeed, the deregulation that led to the 2008 financial crisis was a thoroughly bipartisan effort, one that began in the Clinton Administration. This is why Brooksley Born is a her…

I use the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm; it automates most of the process, including pulling an image (built by Amazon, I believe) that emulates the Lambda environment. All I have to do …

Quite the contrary, I’ve found Docker to be absolutely indispensable for local dev, particularly when I’m debugging various cloud-targeted components, e.g. AWS Lambdas and Step fun…

I believe that this type of employee-hostile practice, among with many others, is partially driving the epidemic of homelessness in America. There are people who simply find life o…

I’ve noticed that people who claim not to care what other people think are paradoxically desperate to make sure everyone knows they don’t care.

Agreed, FreeCAD is painful to use when you’ve been spoiled by Fusion or OnShape. I’ve tried using SALOME as an OSS alternative, it’s somewhat reminiscent of FreeCAD but something o…

Berkeley, not Harvard. He was a Harvard graduate, but taught at Berkeley, and in fact was the youngest math professor in Cal history.

But when you click a link in the TikTok app, TikTok opens an in-app browser for you to view it in - and that’s where it’s gathering all the information. It’s a deceptive practice, …