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Growing up with Mac computers at school in the 90's, teachers referred to ⌘ as the "splat" key. I'm not sure of the etymology or origins, but I inferred it's because the symbol res…

> There’s no need to change passwords if they're robust, unique and not breached This assumes you'll know if passwords were exposed in a breach. Some breaches go undetected.

That's an unnecessarily hard route. Take Dewey around to Laguna Honda and turn onto Portola. Then you can coast down Market or Clipper to your heart's content.

> I really wish there was a service that I could test out an office chair for two weeks and return if it doesn't not perform as expected. It's called Amazon.

> The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections An economy is an inanimate object; it can't #{active_verb} something. This may sound nitpicky, but: languag…

This is why I never tip on Prime Now, Instacart, Uber, Lyft, or Postmates: I don't trust them. Show me whatever the price is, and based on that I'll decide whether to use your serv…

I've read all the Oracle v. Google decisions, with a strong command of software and IP, and I side 100% with Oracle. It is not a question of whether the world would be better if AP…

What were the pro's and con's of using FDB over HBase?

Their architectural choices are puzzling to me: 1) Why use Scala to write (a relatively simple) internal CMS? 2) Why use a clustered database for 2 million records? 3) Why write yo…

For those not familiar with CP/M and Gary Kildall's pioneering role in PC history, this Youtube video is educational: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVqBokd3l2E

America has a 1st amendment which protects free speech. Implicit in that covenant is the responsibility on the recipient, not the transmitter, to determine truthfulness. If you car…

100% agree. No reasonable person browsing the internet has an expectation of truth. When someone says, "But Facebook told me this ad was paid for by Nancy Pelosi," the answer isn't…

I've never understood why Go tries so hard to reinvent exceptions. I've read their manifesto, their books, and this new exception syntax, but I'm not convinced the problem they're …

Logical thinking is the absence of illogical thinking. Therefore, one way to learn logical thinking is to learn the common patterns of illogical thinking, and avoid them. Here is a…

PRESS RELEASE AS OF Apr 25, 2018@9:03:38 PM PT ~~~ Hello, My name is Nate Matherson, and my company runs The Student Loan Report. We created The Student Loan Report in 2016 as a so…

Regarding [1], it is possible to opt out of facebook: don't visit websites with Facebook like/share buttons. (This website, for example). When you access a website with facebook tr…

> but there isn't really a way for me to leave. You speak as if you have no agency in the situation. But, you do have agency. Using, or not using, facebook is 100%, entirely your c…

The answer is: Twitter. Similarities are... - Social media platform ( you are the content). - Advertisers pay for eyeballs. - Hashtags and groups collect similar users. - Privacy s…

"Our site is wildly successful. We'd better change it."

There's a lot of misinformation here about US-based laws. Here are the facts: 1. All US based exchanges require FinCen registration 2. Most states require a money transmission lice…

Has anyone else noticed a PR smear campaign against Tesla?

AngelList was built to solve this problem. If your revenue and traction are true, you'll be oversubscribed. Create a profile, and message investors. Also -- even if you intend to s…

Brave and Opera both use the Blink rendering engine from Chromium/Google. Therefore, you may see this new DRM W3C standard in Brave and Opera.

> ghostwritten of course Proof? > this is definitely not standard Amazon operating procedure Proof?