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> Edward Benjamin Zitron (born 1986 or 1987) is an English technology writer, podcaster, and public relations specialist. He is a critic of the technology industry, particularly of…

> I often think about how unreasonably great the regulations around “Unsubscribe” links in emails are. > There really seems to be no loophole or workaround despite there being huge…

How many collective human lifetimes have been eliminated by security theater?

A lot of those big box retailers have long opened up their digital storefronts to the "marketplace" concept too. Best Buy, Home Depot, and Walmart are the first three that come to …

> College isn't just a place that teaches you how to do a job Sorry, what? This statement feels like the exception, not the norm for most people who have attended college.

As an aside, this website has one hundred and sixty seven trackers and loading them caused my CPU temperatures to spike so high that my fans kicked into high gear.

I lost a lot of weight on ketosis several years ago but could not maintain the diet and gained it all back shortly after. Since then I've found something that works better for my b…

I fired my local hospital earlier this year. I had to get a biopsy and I did not receive my results in a timely manner because my specialist's office decided they needed to play ph…

I am! I pay for apps and IAPs if they're useful.

Hello! I apologize for this being extremely out of context but five months ago on one of my comment threads you recommended Takayama Showa-Kan and I wanted to let you know that I v…

"Historic" has been a pretty popular adjective these days used to overstate the significance of a statistic or fact. From the FBI's own data[1], which is used as the main citation …

I flew ZipAir earlier this year and I liked how they handled boarding. Their "full flat" (the Business section) boards at any time because the seats are to the left as you enter th…

I'm still not sure where this $5k number came from. The description says: > REVR could cost as little as $5k without rebates and can be installed in under a day. What are the condi…

If I were looking for a job, I would gladly pay a couple hundred dollars to use this. There is real value in a streamlined way to track all of my applications' statuses like this. …

Seems like an American version of capsule hotels that have been prevalent in Japanese culture for decades.

It turns out that PayPal's stablecoin contract allows them to freeze holders from transacting, amongst other things: https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1688592430315036672 The USD…

https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1688592430315036672 PayPal's stablecoin contract allows for the freezing of funds in any given address.

> An mp3 player was in every kid's jeans pocket before the ipod was even announced This is a strange statement. I grew up in the Bay Area and a CD player was in my hands/in the bac…

I don't see anything in OP's post nor the linked "why I built it" that would suggest ActivityPub or federation. What are you seeing that suggests that these terms are missing?

> There was nothing in GP's comment stating anything covered by your hyperbole. You're right, I was lashing out at the general vitriol in every comments section involving cryptocur…

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I agree. We've had physical cash and the postal service for centuries now. Platforms like Patreon, Subscribestar, etc. are also solving nonexistent problems. We can already pay art…

So nerds don't exist in crypto? Because that's another loaded statement.

So you made a prediction and presented it as objective fact?

> This is a community created for scammers by scammers Provide deterministic evidence.