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Gah! Thank you.

Does anyone else get an invalid cert authority for Cisco Umbrella CA? Both Safari and Chrome don't like that CA.

I’m the author of the original post. Re-reading it now nearly 14 years later is a bit embarrassing. I love where I ended up so it was all for the best that they didn’t offer me a j…

I give these three books out to new managers in my org: * High Output Management by Andy Grove https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679762884/ * Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet…

I use https://github.com/denisphillips/boxible it's like GitHub's Boxen project but instead of Puppet it uses Ansible.

Why would there be a gap in your resume? Just because you receive a basic income doesn't mean you won't work. I suppose there will be some who would minimize their lifestyle to liv…

I was laid off in 2006 as a Sr. Software Engineer writing systems software in C++ and Java. Thankfully my employer provided 3 months of severance. Through local connections I was a…

It depends how UBI is funded. If it's based on consumption then the people buying your cars end up paying more (say 20%), the additional amount goes to fund UBI. When you buy raw m…

I'm curious why you think this would be necessary. If UBI was for citizens only and it was funded by consumption, visitors would end up paying into it and then would have to petiti…

As edmccard said, there are roughly 318 million people in the US. Not all of them are above the age of 18. Let's say adults get $1,500/month plus $500 for each dependent. So a marr…

I'm curious why you don't think that a basic income would accepted politically? If it were provided to everyone without regard to their other sources of income it would differ from…

Is anyone able to find the wreck of the Primrose on Google Maps satellite image? I've looked around the perimeter of the island but cannot see it -- did the Indian government clean…

It depends on the implementation of the resolver, but in general when no information is known about a nameserver, the resolver will pick one at random. Overtime, it'll keep track o…

Based on this, why aren't movie studios creating trailers based on minimal treatments, releasing them with dates a year or two in the future and then only creating the movie if the…

Wow, so does this make Marco Arment a millionaire? Apparently he still has a financial stake in Tumblr: http://qr.ae/pKNI7

So how do you determine, during an interview, if the candidate has a strong sense of mission about their work and also feel that they have much personal autonomy? Perhaps the secon…

After looking through the comments I'm surprised there's no speculation on the promising startup that PG reached out to the YC partners about. Any ideas?

So why doesn't a huge car company buy them and put Elon in charge of everything? Or is this just too far fetched?

Very nice. Though where's the iOS port that they use to offer for sale? Was the code for that not released?