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Tantrums, rage-quitting, and playing the victim are pretty consistent with his schtick. It’s sad, really. I used to respect the guy and still follow his work, but I think spending …

Hypocrisy and PR spin aside, he’s not wrong. I think, on the balance, that social networks are a net negative development for humanity and should be destroyed.

Instead, we’re feigning shock that the party that wants to drown our government in a bathtub can’t govern effectively.

Sources? I've got a dozen contradictions in mind already and I haven't even hit Wikipedia yet.

Perhaps we should require a minimum % of post-consumer recycled content in new plastics going forward. I have decades of industry-sponsored research indicating that plastic recycli…

6 months in, Agda is just as cryptic as it was on day 1.

Specifically law enforcement, which seems to attract a lot of “bad apples.”

Given that both organizations treat complying with legal and contractual obligations as a risk management exercise, I see no problem with their employees doing the same. It sounds …

The government, as specified in the US Constitution, requires that candidates for president must be born in the US and over 35 years old. Assuming those requirements (and any other…

Wild speculation: Customer service, support, and other direct interactions are difficult to scale. Large corporations tend to optimize direct-contact positions for cost and speed o…

Calling out bad-faith arguments just seems to make things worse (at least in the current US political/social climate). I usually just ghost people who engage in ad hominem attacks,…

I suspect you may have overlooked who shows up between the kids and the older users: internet marketers. Marketers want clicks, eyeballs and engagement and they do that by sharing …

You appear to be engaging in denialism. Would you care to further elaborate on your claim for everyone else reading?

Fantastic! IDGAF whether Comcast and my local CBS affiliate can reach an agreement about rates, and I resent it every time either of them spams customers about their disputes. Same…

We can’t even get people to wear masks in the middle of a fucking pandemic. Do you really think this is a likely and universalizable scenario?

auth0 and Okta are basically private SAML (+OAuth +OIDC) federation facilitators. The pieces to build what you describe are all out there, but there aren’t a ton of pre-assembled p…

I think they should suspend access (with right to appeal) to all of their employer's repos until they address their employee problem.

He's not unable to receive messages, he just uses a niche messaging protocol that's openly hostile to automation.

And the paper that's sent to landfills breaks down into global warming-worsening gases.

And there is barely worse way to stay on top of things than email.

I used to run network printing for a 35,000 student university in the US. For some reason, the administration insisted that ICT provide printers free of charge to departments. When…

Parkinson's Law of Data: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage" Most frequent use: Justifying quotas on NAS/SAN devices. People retain more stuff when they think a …