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I don’t know if you’re joking or not but of course Wales doesn’t profit directly from this. And, as a non-profit, compensation of executives is public knowledge. I believe Board me…

Another word whose usefulness has been degraded to just mean “bad behavior by an organization”. With “enshittification”, Doctorow meant something specific, where a platform rises t…

It’s beautifully done. A few questions I noticed that complex patterns - marble, some paintings, some stained glass - are rendered in what seems like stretched, hazy ellipses. Is t…

I haven’t read this book, but I noticed the author makes much of their empirical research available with a CC license. https://catharsisinsight.com/ , scroll way down to “Developer…

> For (literally) decades no one there would have even thought of forming a union! Why do you feel so certain about that?

You're right that it's become a stock phrase, is somewhat redundant, and I used it without thinking. I strive to avoid such stock phrases (see Orwell's Politics and the English Lan…

I understand why the parent post felt it was clankerish. It has the same feeling - many signposts on a road to nowhere. But it's also got the structure of marketing. Or a pitch for…

Yeah this is a bit sad. I think maybe this person actually had some real lived experience and wrote bullet points and then generated the book. I don’t even want to think about the …

A friend of mine has this problem with their D&D campaigns. He makes huge efforts and there’s always one or two people who flake or don’t have the same commitment level. He’s gotte…

You have to be the one who creates things to do. Really, that’s it. You want to play D&D together, you host and DM. You want to just hang out, you reach out and propose what you’re…

Read it carefully. He's not saying that these are all common values or practices at Google. He's saying he learned those lessons while working at Google. Despite the metaphor of a …

Yup. I nearly had this movie memorized when I was a child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWXuDNmO7j8 Peter Weller, playing Buckaroo Banzai, is late for his military-particle-phys…

In Mad Men, we have these little moments of mind=blown by the constant sexism, racism, smoking, alcoholism, even attitudes towards littering. In 2040 someone's going to make a show…

It has never been about small government. You can just look at the Republican record on deficit spending or military funding to dismiss that. “Small government” was just an accepta…

Thanks for bringing Vancouver into the discussion. We have SROs here still, and they have a contentious relationship with both the government and the population they serve. Sometim…

So details were left out and it doesn't adhere exactly to this author's idea of what a good security report is. Nothing to see here IMO. The simpler explanation is that: - They're …

XSLT is being exploited right now for security vulnerabilities, and there is no solution on the horizon. The browser technologies that people actually use, like JavaScript, have ac…

He's not making an argument. With these characters, from Trump on down, discourse is not the point. He is flexing his power by showing he can make an obviously fatuous point and ge…

Working on: to teach myself Rust, I’ve been working on a NYT Letter Boxed solver, with some ambitions to turn it into a game by itself. I think this game could be made a lot more f…

Microsoft and Oracle sold closed source software that had obtained tremendous leverage in their fields, if not outright monopolies. Historically, Microsoft and Oracle’s business mo…