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I have had multiple conversations with family and friends, both technical and non, where they express the concern about their phone or Facebook listening to conversations. They may…

Seconding The Magic Labyrinth. The kids really enjoy moving the pieces, and it does takes some memorization to figure out the path.

Term life insurance helped me deal with this fear. Take care of yourself and know that there is no guarantee on tomorrow.

There are a couple of Reply All episodes that talk about almost this exact same scam. Fake taxi service lost and found sites, fake DMV sites etc. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-…

From the article you reference: But during an outreach trip by two Alpha Project workers on Wednesday, most of the homeless people the team encountered said they hadn’t noticed muc…

Another anecdotal-data-of-sample-size-one, my wife was at a bar and struck up a conversation with another person to whom she had no connections. After she left, Facebook suggested …

A perfect example of regulating your competitors out of business.

Truecaller appears to be built into my Cyanogenmod OS. I certainly appreciate it since ~90% of my phone calls that are not immediate family seem to be spam.

I think he is more on the mark about streaming video than conversational commerce / bots. If you are a regular Facebook user, you can get an idea of where they are headed with the …

I am not familiar with any of this, but could a lower SCSI be caused by more shipping supply being available as opposed to fewer containers being shipped? Is there an index that tr…

Just started reading Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir [ http://www.amazon.com/Dragonfly-NASA-And-Crisis-Aboard/dp/08... ]. It seems to be an interesting story about proble…

Why have taxes at all if rich people always find a way around these things? Or laws, for that matter?

"It was difficult to transact legitimate business with cash in the Sprawl; in Japan, it was already illegal."

In a documentary about Studio Ghibli, they show every couple hours where everyone gets up from their desk and does calisthenics, even Miyazaki. I don't know if this is common in Ja…

For those wanting to create Deep Dream images without the setup hassle, I had a good experience using the Docker image from https://github.com/ryankennedyio/deep-dream-generator Gi…

Itch.io is great! Thanks for creating something so good!

I use the VS node tools most every day. Thank you for work!

For some reason this is the first explanation of Roman numerals used in chord progression that made sense to me. Thank you!

Which one to start with?

- Mort, Terry Pratchett The first Pratchett book I've read, and I can't believe I've waited so long to read his work. Humorous in a Douglas Adams sort of way. - Arabian Nights, Had…

As someone who has lived in OK for 30+ years, this is absolutely false. Here is a chart of the largest recorded earthquakes in Oklahoma. Only two have been greater than 5.0. http:/…

My favorite change lately is the one where they increased the version number on System.Web.Mvc in the GAC, thereby breaking almost all old ASP.NET MVC builds. http://blogs.msdn.com…

The first two times I read this headline I thought it was about fruit fly evolution.

If you are using Phaser, you can use PhysicsEditor ( https://www.codeandweb.com/physicseditor ) with the P2 physics to auto-trace a picture into a polygon and load it into Phaser. …

Perhaps you are also less likely to talk trash with a lollipop in your mouth. Clever hack.