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Also, middle-/upper-oriented people are more likely peer-pressured to placing in the "best" kindergartens, whereas lower-oriented people may skip it (much like skipping parental-sc…

Some people have to rationalize their stuck-in-the-1950's, environmentally-destructive, post-truth lifestyles with gusto somehow. How else to explain expanded fossil fuel consumpti…

Interesting. Oddly enough, I used to have this massive custom sofa which was a real PITA to move... could only fit in storage unit if stood up on a roller dolly and so on. I bet th…

Alt-right gonna keep shoveling billionaire propaganda and/or InfoWars/Unabomber beliefs onto every and any memetic channel, because shouting lies loud/often enough is sadly rewarde…

Recall, recall, recall.

HeathKit partically-reinvented themselves: https://shop.heathkit.com/shop I remember changing the channel on a color HeathKit TV at my grandparents by shaking house keys because th…

TC rarely covers non-tech fields unless there's a tech aspect. Plus, we're talking about TC.

There's a happier, less-dramatic sane-area leaving out overt misogyny and social-justice warrior cry-bully behavior. Also, in hiring there needs to be process removal of as many co…

I'm not using 1.0.0+ until it's codesigned and/or dmg gpg verifiable with a known-good signature. Do not install untrusted, unverifiable apps is security 101.

Apple's codesign ensures end-to-end chain-of-custody integrity with nonrepudiation, tied to a specific, named signer and likely also a credit-card. GPG signing and releasing finger…

When I was there way-back-when, the dining account dept hooked us up with unlimited all-you-care-to-eat (non-packaged) dining, likely because it was cheaper in terms of productivit…

I've been hearing about a bullet train for 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig http://bensommer.com/blog/big-dig-big-corruption/ There's a mix of ineptitude, poor/non-planning and some shady deals. With larger projects, m…

Reminds me of the Bolivian public health issues of forgoing native consumption for cash crop export. https://intercontinentalcry.org/the-mother-grain/ And, also how many pounds of …

Building codes are not a one-sized-fits-all panacea, neither good nor bad inherently. They are both policy creation and enforcement to prevent as much harm as people can reasonably…

I used to work for R&DE as an FTE. Stanford campus is crazy expensive for mere mortals: parking permits are pricey, convenience foods (Tresidder) are movie theater prices. Treehous…

Yup. Stack-based is great for high-level language VM interface ease-of-use (ie JVM languages) but generally sucks at the hardware level because most CPUs are register-based: the ma…

In high school, I was an assistant manager at an Egghead in San Jose and got the employee discount on the id Anthology. It was pretty sweet. (Not to mention we borrowed nearly ever…

I don't get out of bed for less than $100k unless it's $10k for a local gig for a week. They're going to pester you endlessly for free labor post-sales if you let them, but conside…

Their best goto-market is probably licensing and embedding in various existing consumer devices: battery-less TV remotes, external temperature sensors, cyclometers, etc. Otherwise,…

37signals did research on this. For a respectful community, start with a difficult-to-attain, invite-only profile where a person has to show a real, verified profile pic and post t…

That. is. hilarious. (Business is like life, love and war: difficult)

There's a niche field of malware economics, but it makes sense that for-profit malware is ultimately a business, albeit an usually illegal one, which has to optimize just like any …

Also: Air Crash Investigation / Mayday / Air Disasters is an interesting series if one is interested in real-world, root-cause engineering analysis.

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