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Essential context: Seymour Hersh is a big deal. "Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he recei…

For anyone scratching their head, I suspect "Brooks" == Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks Jr.

Ben Thompson nails it, as usual: "The brilliance of paying on a subscription basis is that a company can buy exactly what it needs, when it needs it, and no more." From https://str…

>> Not all of science is interesting to the private sector. > My research area is famously hard to fund even within academia, so I substantially changed the way that I frame my res…

Not having access to the js libraries seems like a feature rather than a bug. With rare exceptions, third party code written in javascript distributed via npm is a liability.

The most recent episode (#118) of Law Bytes with Michael Geist (a respected Canadian law professor) goes into the legal nitty gritty about the use of the Emergency Measures Act. He…

Can you see in the history how they are setting the price? Are they dripping this into the market somehow? What's the standard strategy for fundraising this way?

What's the current best tool for generating redlines from two PDF/Word documents? Makes sense that this would be important (e.g., when comparing contract versions).

It's not well known that the (US) CAN-SPAM act does not apply to political and religious organizations. They can spam as much as they want. First amendment law is full of surprises…

Thanks. This makes some sense. Honestly, I'm sympathetic to Yelp. The money has to come from somewhere. And there's at least superficial evidence that you cannot operate a honest r…

Anyone spot an official response from Glassdoor to this?

Is this true? I thought Yelp still did a decent job of moderating reviews.

I thought this was mostly unenforced or unenforceable in cases like this -- where it would be really hard to prove that someone took a payment. I'll keep digging. Thanks! One more …

Does anyone know about the legality of this? My suspicion is that this black-hat content marketing is perfectly legal under US law. It's only potentially a violation of individual …

Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!

> "... would probably be a few cycles of students ..." This sort of delay would be priced in by the person buying the ISAs from Lambda. I agree with the grand-parent post. Lambda s…

This blog is excellent. But there's no RSS feed. What do other people who rely on feed readers do in these scenarios? Is there a good service (which will not disappear) which will …

I'd like to understand this better. My understanding is that the Netherlands has had a wealth tax on assets which are not financial assets for some time. And income from financial …

Is WIP https://wip.chat/ ? First I have heard of it. Are there other well-known communities doing this sort of thing?

I would pay about $250 a year for software with these features. I don't think I'm alone.

So you can't censor sci-hub.now.sh (at least in the US, where linking is typically protected speech). So that's one thing. Also, the actual DNS system doesn't have a way of redirec…

I really enjoy the Containers. The only problem is that you can only have a single container tied to an individual site. I'd rather like it to be tied to a subpath or url "root" so…

Where does it say that they record your visit to other websites?

I think this is right. It is possible to sell on your own site. Luxury goods do it right now. For example, if you want to buy perfume directly from Chanel, you cannot do it through…

Which "Traction" book is this? There seem to be a few with this title.