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RSS is a pretty good way around this. Disabling JavaScript is also a good option to cut down on the silliness. If it breaks the site, it was probably not worth reading.

Four years.

If only you knew how bad things really are.

I’d suspect there is significant growth of businesses acting as intermediaries for cloud storage. I think that other software providers have also realized that ransoming users data…

I think universal conscription is a good idea for the sole reason that everyone should get a bit of this perspective. The people who’ve never left the nice-people bubble of college…

You go to school and learn that 2+2=4. You get a consulting job and learn 2+2= whatever the client says it is. I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that the consulting engineer was in…

Never bet against a CIA spinoff.

Small benefit with externalized costs, I think. There are benefits to in office work. I don’t consider them valuable enough to offset the cost of 10hrs of uncompensated time every …

Well, for the sake of clarity I would say Tor is safer only if it’s not a honey trap. That is not knowable as a user, but I think that suspicion is well-deserved. I think the Middl…

You know, I’m actually pretty surprised that there’s not more lobbying for some kind of tax incentives to promote remote work. It takes a lot of burden off transportation networks.…

The disturbing societal implications speak for themselves. Personally, I suspect a significant fraction of transactions on Only Fans or “influencer” platforms are money laundering …

Please keep harping. The marketing myths that gets circulated about these models are creating very serious misunderstandings and misallocation of resources. I am hopeful that more …

I’m more familiar with transportation grants than food grants, but I would imagine you write a proposal and get matching funds up to a certain ceiling, like 80-20 state-private up …

ESOPs are common in the civil engineer world. I have mixed feelings about it. Private company stock valuations look like a magic show to my untrained eyes. Employee-only buying can…