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I asked him for my full archive download in October 2022, and having heard nothing back I wound up paying him another $39 to keep my archive from being deleted while I tried to get…

It used to seem to me that there was a strong libertarian tendency among computer people, at least relative to the rest of society. I always attributed this to the fact that anyone…

In the past few years, McDonald's (and some, but not all, other fast food restaurants) really seems to have gone all-in on the price-discrimination approach of setting list prices …

In Chapter Five, he writes: >“The most cruel and evil effect of the Means Test is the way in which it breaks up families. Old people, sometimes bedridden, are driven out of their h…

It's not that I see the greater flexibility of, well, nearly all non-Apple product as being a bug , exactly. There are certainly tremendous advantages to being flexible, adaptable,…

Alternately, it can be explained by the fact that a lot of happy Apple customers — 'fans', I suppose — are fine with farming out some of their technological decision-making to Appl…

I'm also skeptical of the idea of an iPad with a 7" screen, mainly because typing on such a screen would be far worse than on the current one. However, such a thing would probably …

> Would you apply the same logic to oxygen instead of water? Markets are a means of managing scarcity. Oxygen is not scarce, at least not if you're at sea level and you don't mind …

You have a decimal-point problem. $150/30 is $5 a day; it's entirely possible to eat quite well on that.

I thought I was future-proofing myself a bit by buying a Griffin AirCurve. The AirCurve is an ear-trumpet kind of thing that acoustically amplifies the output from the iPhone's spe…

I wonder how much of the speed differences are due to the time spent turning pages? The iPad generally turns pages faster than the Kindle (no matter what app you're using on the iP…

A large part of AT&T's perception problem seems to have to do with their congestion, not their RF performance, in a few places. This might be one of those situations where more inf…

By observing the fluidity of Long Island Sound, though, you can be sure that no one has dumped ice-nine into the Gulf of Mexico. Similarly the existence of a single functioning pro…

Amazon handles my apostrophe without drama. One advantage to having an apostrophe in your name is that you can spot when people migrate their databases without paying attention, be…

Netflix used to make it very difficult to find any of their customer service contact addresses or phone numbers. I have an old blog post with a title that includes the word 'Netfli…

I'd agree with you if you said that they deserved an outage of a few hours; that's the risk you run when someone else controls your data. Once in a while, things fail; when it happ…