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For anyone interested, this is a pretty interesting read about Ketchup and Heinz: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-co...

To be fair, he also had to work with a Republican Senate to get pass any laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)#%2... There's some other precedent for the word Carmageddon other than an old game that a lot people haven't heard of.

They've been pivoting the Firefox name to encompass many privacy-minded tools for a while now. I would argue that a Firefox VPN strengthens that branding. https://www.mozilla.org/e…

How is this brand dilution?

What's a good word for "obtaining digital content without paying for the right to possess said digital content"?

I'm sure some people do. I prefer to pay for things though.

> Don't use any javascript frontends. I'm struggling to find the connection between a Javascript front end and content that has (to quote the article posted) "the voice of individu…

Hopefully this leads to the state getting good deal in the inevitable public takeover.

> You're taking it on trust that it's anonymized to the point of being impossible to make any inferences about individuals, which is a huge leap, not only in trust, but data scienc…

What's your favorite thing about space? (Mine is space)

Is it any safer than pasting your auth tokens into a standalone application like Postman? That can just as easily send that information somewhere else, but now you can't press F12,…

> but on the other hand, differences in "identical circuits" are often plainly audible. I wonder how much of that is component tolerances. If you have two identical circuits with +…

Seems difficult to do. You'd need to know the name and address of the voter, and be sure that that haven't voted yet, and won't try to vote after you. I can see that happening mayb…

- As recommended by another post, The Art of Electronics is great - Make stuff! Adafruit has some great kits and project instructions. Find something that looks interesting and mak…

I really like a lot of functional programming techniques in JS, but the Left/Right style of error handling just always seems messy and unreadable to me.

I'm a pretty non-picky eater, but I feel like I can usually empathize with other people's picky eating habits. Not drinking water however, is something that I just can't wrap my mi…

I highly recommend eating at Wursthall in San Mateo. It's J. Kenji López-Alt's (from Serious Eats, author of The Food Lab) restaurant.

I don't think licensure is part of the definition of "engineer"

I'd rather just have a proper headphone jack.

Can I ask where you bought it from? I've been trying to find a new one and haven't been having any luck other than eBay

Their choices in hardware make it hard for me to switch. Since the new hardware announcements this week I'm scrambling to find a new iPhone SE to switch to from Android. I want pri…

I think I'll listen to Warren Buffet's advice on index funds.

I'm a fan of a notebook and a pen.

OSH Park ( https://oshpark.com/ ) seems to be popular in the guitar effect building community.