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It's elementary, my dear Watson: 1. WL disclosed information to US population. 2. WL is accused of being "Non-state Hostile Intelligence Service". 3. Hostile intelligence services …

To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Fake News is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel". The "fake news" meme itself is the last desperate attempt to preserve the fake news monopoly which gi…

It is far from 'clear' or 'obvious' that the Directive is a bad deal for content producers. Read it yourself - especially Articles 11 and 13. The narrative funded through GOOGL (an…

Few weeks after installing really loud air horn, it became apparent that: - it's impossible to effectively use horn and brakes in emergencies; - one starts to rely on the horn clea…

And you watch porn, your brain thinks you are ....

What is the most optimistic benefit of a driverless car? If we put aside creation of unemployment, putting limits on what human drivers will be able to do, and similar dystopian ou…

No he is not. Do not confuse 'minority' with 'people comfortable expressing unpopular opinions'.

It's becoming obvious that well-off 'progressives' strive to crown their status with the ultimate pet: human beings in need. Horses are not so in vogue any more. Like all pets, the…

The ideological control - via identity politics and associated infantile concepts of safe spaces, trigger words and the 'right not to be offended' - has finally landed on the mains…

I cannot begin to understand how is it better to reveal your DNS access patterns to the global company like Cloudflare, as opposed to revealing them to your local ISP? Who do you t…

Better headline: "Google Workers Astonished: Found Out They Work In Capitalist System, Not Nerd Commune"

The scariest part is un-adult emotional environment, where employees (people hired at-will to work) refer to other employees as "brothers and sisters". This looks more like _Lord o…

These topics all have overwhelming support in local media, PR and marketing copy, in other words in the official ideology. The actual people are not much different than anywhere el…

There is a linguistic sleight of hand at work here: 'libertarian' and 'left' is not what is happening in SV. These terms have been hijacked by the identity politics cartel. The SV …

One of the few remaining forums with articulated content.

There is a linguistic problem here - extending the term 'middle class' to hide prevailing poverty in the US. You are not middle class if: - you will lose home, car if you are out o…

Maybe a new startup with an app could help? "Post a selfie of feeding the hungry" "Leftover food spotted on the corner of 5th and Lincoln" Then sell user data to law enforcement.

The amount of energy required to create a parallel (fake) chains is so huge that it makes more sense to express it in kilograms. Some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on tot…

There will likely be shift in the liability approach, and drivers will be made liable for accidents caused by inadequate technology. This approach worked well (for some parties) in…

Sadly, exactly 50% of engineers are below average, so hiring the best all the time is unsustainable. Thinking that you hired the best, however, is sustainable. The art of managing …

The event where one line of buggy code ('==' instead of ' And monoculture is the elephant in the room most pretend not to see. The current engineering ideology (it is ideology, not…

Erlang is made for IoT. Tens of millions of concurrent unrelated clients, embarrassingly parallelizable, scales linearly with number of cores, as these share nothing.

Not really. Experience after designing and deploying systems that run 100,000 transactions/sec per box: don't bother with engineers that cannot achieve proficiency in Erlang. Elixi…