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That is what my job as a developer has always been.

We should implement this in Florida. I wouldn't mind a five month vacation.

One step closer to the Panera Facebook resort and casino VR heaven.

Add a file manager and you will have a konquerer competitor.

At first I thought this was silly, then I remembered there is another guy in England that also claims sovereignty of this area. The Prince of Hutt has a better claim as far as I'm concerned.

When it comes to software specifically, there are a couple advantages of capitalist ownership:

1. Access to cash. While software does not require much physical capital (factories, equipment, raw materials, etc) those with capital have easier access to cash and can therefore scale much quicker.

2. Intellectual Property. In software industry, workers do not just use capital to make finished goods. They produce new capital out of their imaginations and that capital (which lasts 120 years, never breaks down, never deteriorates) is typically owned those who put up the cash. That makes their advantage grow over time.

None of that is insurmountable, but we are a long way from having the organization or political support to overcome them.

The films upset over Clinton's personal email address must have had their heads explode over this!

Isn't Tor already a US government funded "freedom portal"? This new webpage could just provide instructions for downloading For Browser

I'm a little confused. Was this code he released that allowed others to run a mixing service, or was it a mixing service ran by this guy, or is it some kind of distributed mixing service that cannot be controlled by anyone?

I will definitely check that out. I love the idea of poets battling monks.

I opened the article expecting to agree with headline, but after reading it, I think, based just on the one short example it gives, it is wrong.

The first poem that the author points to as a masterpiece is a tortured exercise in formal meter. I had to read it out loud, very deliberately leaning into the meter to hear any musicality. It is difficult not because the feeling communicated are necessarily hard to communicate, but because the author enjoys the puzzle.

The second piece just flowed effortlessly. The rythym and meaning were immediately grasped, in complete silence, while still rewarding someone who sat with it a little longer.

Maybe I should follow the example of ICE and assume everything I do is legal until a judge specifically tells me it is not. I know other people have gone to jail for murder, but how do I know the murder I want to commit is illegal until a judge rules on my particular case.

the Department of Homeland Security had suspended the purchase of commercial location data after the Inspector General found the agency had violated federal law, but that temporary safeguard has now been dismantled.

Sounds like it is still illegal. They just don't care.

How dramatically does this shorten lifespan of SSDs?

Last time I bought something from amazon I was almost tricked by an interstitial with a prominent "Get Free Shipping" button and a much less prominent, "no, I want to pay more" link.

It shouldn't be too difficult to prove use deceptive practices. Just show the judge a screenshot of that page.

This headline is guaranteed to be always false and always true.

True because we have spent the last 50 years redefining "AI" to mean whatever computers will do tomorrow.

False because we have spent the last 50 years defining programming as whatever programmers do today.

I really don't get why I would want this. I like that the data that brokers have is fragmented, inconsistent, and out of date. That is the only thing preserving even a tiny bit of privacy.

A system like solid would absolutely be abused by police. It would be a windfall for data brokers and social scoring systems.

No thank you.

The library is meant to be noisy: It’s a lounge-like area with no walls or doors that is bisected by the hallway that traverses the building. And there are no shelves or books — all volumes are digital.

Classrooms are organized like high-tech college lecture halls — no teacher has their own room. Instead, each teacher has a desk and a computer in a separate and small “collaboration” room.

I'm all for state of the art public and collaborative spaces. But I hope they make room for solitary reflection and individual study. As a student, the hours spent in the library stacks were invaluable. In my career, having a quite place to retreat throughout the day is sometimes the only thing that keeps me sane.

Ms Dickinson, is that you?

Actually, the town basically existed because of the TVA. It was a major employer and profits went to fund the schools and library.

There is a little bit of a sleight of hand going on in this article by claiming the lifestyle of boomers is within reach, but then actually using boomers' parents and grand-parents as the standard. It would be more honest to say "Most of us can't have the relative wealth of our grand parents, but with some sacrifices and creativity, the lifestyle of our great-grand parents is attainable."

Even that is only true in a very narrow sense. My great-grand parents built a 600sqft house in a small town and lived their most of their lives. But they built that house right next to their parents. They lived within 5 miles of their combined 9 siblings. They were within half a mile of their church and half mile from the my great-grandfather's union hall. The town was small, but thriving, with multiple department stores downtown. My great-grandmother worked in two of them.

They did not isolate themselves into a dying town with few opportunities far away from their friends and family.

What millinials and zoomers are really struggling with is the hallowing out of the social and economic institutions that supported our collective wealth and well-being. These struggles may manifest as complaints about the individual ability to afford housing, healthcare, education, etc. But there are not individual solutions to these problems. They are structural.

With truely unlimited time and resources, I would feel no need to prioritize important or impactful work.

I might spend 100 years customizing my desktop environment. Then another 100 years perfecting some niche internal software used exclusively by a small factory in South Dakota.

My version of spending a couple lifetimes meditating on a mountaintop.

Which is another reason it makes no sense to maintain/raise tax rates on the middle class while cutting taxes on the rich. This is burdensome for those paying while it adds very little to public coffers.

There is no text of the bill, but based on its title, this could outlaw publishing any public AI research.

Once the war on pronouns is won, this one votes on eliminating adverbs next.

How does GDP is growing slightly slower than pre-pandemic estimates translate into irreversible decline?

All this seems pretty paranoid. Stealing mail can't be that common.

My guess is that he will soon depart academia and announce his new workplace surveillance startup.

My impression is that their "streams" are just ways of segmenting different types of content within an account, not actually using separate infrastructure to send the actual mail.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, though.

For several years, postmark only allowed transactional email. This led to them having a very high reputation. They are now cashing in on that reputation by allowing increasingly spammy content.

In a couple years, they're deliverability will be no better than SES.