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I have considered myself fairly libertarian, and have voted for libertarians in various positions for years. I think this is a bit like saying "I have a question for Republicans" o…

So, as tenured faculty I don't know about NSF advocating for careers in STEM. Maybe that's a good thing maybe its a bad thing. What I do see driving this ultimately is something br…

The problem is that the "elites" often selectively push for aspects of deregulatory strategy that benefit them, without pushing for the rest. Or, they advocate for some distorted v…

The issue of control with newsfeeds and RSS has been on my mind a lot the last year or so. RSS and Atom are great as a protocol, but where things break down for me is in discovery,…

The coverage of the Netflix ratings format switch has always been frustrating to me because what people are complaining about (you're not the only one; https://www.polygon.com/2017…

I had a similar reaction. It strikes me a bit as part of the rampant survivorship bias that happens all the time in contemporary society. As in, I worked hard and things worked out…

I'm having flashbacks here, but what I remember at that time was concern that if Google paid Sun, they'd be setting a precedent that way. There was a sigh of relief when they didn'…