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A dishonest analysis: There are more tech firms than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.

Thousands of other companies accounted for the remaining 557,062 labor filings.

And most of them are IT firms.

“What’s the percentage chance that Trump is actually a fascist

dictator?” asks technology investor Justin Kan in the New Yorker

story. “Maybe it’s low, but the expected value of having an escape

hatch is pretty high.”

Classic Peter.

I have just remembered a book: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, by Nail Strauss

Privoxy (https://www.privoxy.org/):

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.

I'm from Bangladesh, my connection is ~256 kbps and my pc is slow (256 RAM and 1.6 ghz), if not by privoxy, i couldn't browse internet.

"This is my multi-month study plan for going from web developer (self-taught, no CS degree)..."

No CS degree and no CS background. I wonder why he wasn't chosen (and why HN dismiss Google interviews as silly games...).

It would not be an free software.

But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

    Theo de Raadt cvs@openbsd.org mailing list, May 29, 2001
> The JSON License > > This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data > interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but > adds a clause mandating:“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” > This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The > restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, > the license is nonfree.
    Various Licenses and Comments about Them (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)
Also: json-evil-license (https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil)

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole:

See Reilly, Ignatius J., Blood on Their Hands: The Crime of It All, A study of some selected abuses in sixteenth century Europe, a Monograph, 2 pages, 1950, Rare Book Room, Left Corridor, Third Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana.

Note: I mailed this singular monograph to the library as a gift; however, I am not really certain that it was ever accepted. It may well have been thrown out because it was only written in pencil on tablet paper.

From OP, on reddit:

Until today, I’ve never shared anything particularly personal online, but in the wake of the election, I feel like I can no longer stay silent. I finally worked up the nerve to write publicly about sexual assault, tying my recent experiences to Trump's election. I look forward to your feedback and comments! I also shared this on the MensLib subreddit, and I've been pleasantly surprised by the positivity of men's responses.

We all have a little bit of Trump within us, whether that’s a bit of narcissism, arrogance, aggressiveness, greed, stubbornness, impatience, impulsivity, bullying, poor listening skills, or implicit or explicit bias.

A self-sustaining civilization of robots. Humans are gone, but generations and generations of robots evolve and, eventually, incorporating organic compounds, they become cyborgs.