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250,000 people (includes student employees) at the university of California can just go online and look up their co-worker’s salary, for the past 10 years! Yet, it doesn’t cause pr…

And then you end up exactly where the company I work for ended up, and where a ton of other companies end up: The same people, doing the same work, with very similar experiences, g…

People can’t seem to get enough of science fiction, but every time something is presented that would move the needle in that direction, the detractors line up in droves. With attit…

As Cory Doctorow once said, “It is only a matter of time before a computer kills us.”

Given the number of upvotes this has, and I would guess, too, that people who upvote a story don't always comment, I would say there is pretty strong agreement with posting salarie…

Even though I have not "posted" to it in years, I still maintain my https://posthaven.com/ account.

Alternative headline: After 12 years, Twitter finally decides to do something with Posterous

Why not WFT: Work From (a) Tesla? Of course, it would have to be, "at the office," (read, parking lot) otherwise the worker would get fired.

How about in wet, hot environments (or even cold ones), like on a boat? Watermakers are very expensive and use a lot of electricity. If one could do this on a boat to generate clea…

I’ve started referring to my “phone” as a “palm pilot” because, well, it’s hardly a “phone.” Long live the PalmPilot!

This is why I still use LDAP. And I spend my days at work happy.

https://www.billionoysterproject.org/reefs

I think you just answered the question: All of the categories you note have both high-end and, sadly, mostly low-end options. What is surprising is that, in the world of computing,…

This is amazing, and superimposing it over other land masses really helps to illustrate the point. I think it would be incredibly helpful to compare it to interstellar events from …

You highlight the biggest problem: humans simply must change/adjust/whatever you want to call it, if humanity is to survive. The only technological out is fusion power. Without tha…

Robinhood currently has the Genentech description attached to Ginko Bioworks (DNA)!

1000% agree! I sail and Windy is great for an idea of what is going to happen, but no substitute for what is actually happening on the water, i.e., the fine-tuned weather that is n…

Facebook, allegedly, has an "army" of moderators. Parler, on the other hand, relied on voluntary "flagging", and they admitted (quoted in some other article from today), that they …

Honestly asking: Does this mean you prefer it to come up at 4:00 AM (as that would be the option if you are in a place where it is going down 9-10pm)?

The interesting thing is the person sponsoring the bill is from FL, where I don't think it matters to them which time to keep as much. For more Northern latitudes, both have issues…

Being someone who has been in the tech field for well over 20 years, I always look upon any legislation that deals with tech, with suspect. Sadly, I venture that people in other fi…

This is the choice quote: "Thankfully Apple is not yet making cars, otherwise, to change Engine oil, we may have to dissasemble the headlamps, engine, transmission, differential, e…

Thank you so much for bringing up WeWork. I get PG's point, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that all billionaires are good because they simply must have made something…

I do agree, but I was referring to all of the comments from people who are saying that CoCs are worse than the problem they are trying to solve. I don't agree with that. As for bui…

To all of the people who hate CoCs: Just don't patronize any forum, software repo, or conference that has them. Not so easy to do, right? Same thing with people who get harassed al…