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> Often you either end up with one "dev ssh key" for all machines (which is bad) Or, conversely: with one "dev password" for all machines.

This careful response seems sensible at first blush. After all, maybe in 5 years things will be better for Venezuelans! On the other hand, maybe not. In my heart of hearts I believ…

If we take GP's post not quite literally, here's a useful list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deat...

Journalists have a long and storied history of standing up for free and independent journalism, and they're right to!. However, they have a rather more spotty record (with highs an…

Nukes make individual countries safer, but every additional country with nukes makes the world as a whole less safe.

Over the past half century, a lot of women went from housewife to part-time worker, resulting in more hours worked per adult citizen and household, but fewer per labor participant.…

> Russia violated Turkey’s airspace only once, the jet was shot down immediately, and, save to say, Putin was on the phone with Ankara to prevent an all out escalation with a NATO …

I believe (with zero supporting evidence) that Blizzard implemented level scaling reluctantly, in order to better facilitate ad-hoc group play. Unfortunately, they kind of screwed …

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It is worth pointing out that einpoklum's point is not merely academic: Stallman is old enough that he really did get introduced to computers and programming and software through c…

> I miss OKCupid's blog. For anyone who might want to re-read them, gwern archived the old OKCupid blog here: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/

I've been using SingleFile for a couple of months now, to auto-save every page I visit, and it works well. It's exactly as simple as it needs to be. My only real complaints are tha…

I've been looking for something like this for a while now, to store all pages I visit into a personal archive, but all the options I found either involved setting up a proxy and MI…

Isaac Arthur: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/vid... Exploring science fiction concepts using currently known science.

Are you sure we shouldn't take the idiom 'a picture is worth a thousand words' literally?

Here's a list: https://arewee10syet.com/

When, say, 100000 people are out on the street protesting something (anything), and 5 of them throw a chair through a window, then yes, I would prefer the media to focus on the 999…

Tourists do not commonly suffer from PTSD and a host of other mental problems. There are real, valid reasons why you don't just dump them in a random suburb and let them fend for t…

It's undoubtable that surveillance is becoming harder now I disagree, that's very doubtable. Modern law enforcement has access to an amount of information that exceeds that availab…

To add to qb45's reply, that kind of a manipulation does not remain hidden. And when it inevitably comes out, the very people you've been trying to convince will be angered by your…

A couple of days ago, I got a DVD-R in my mailbox. When I looked at was on it, it appeared to be a list of conspiracy theory videos. The file names of several of these alleged that…

Unlike in most other European countries, Dutch law allows for life imprisonment without parole, from which only a royal pardon can save you. Since 1970, 43 people have been convict…

People organise neighbourhood watch WhatsApp groups to prevent crime instead of relying on the police to fix things. Within ten years these groups will probably grow into armed and…

Prison sentences in the Netherlands for aren't imposed as punishment alone, not even mostly. They are primarily tools of prevention (including the prevention of recidivism). If a c…