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A comment left on Slashdot
The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for “intelligence”) worship at the altar of youth. I don̵…
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We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
12 Mar, 2017 The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How can they possibly be our allies?
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Who controls your computer? and how to make sure it's you
Can you trust your computer? Can you control what it does and doesn’t? Or is someone else in control? How can you even know what it is or isn’t doing? Even if it tells you, how do you know it’s not lying? As computing systems become more complex, how can “Trusted Computing” be achieved, not (just) by big corporations…
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Toronto Is in a Housing Bubble
With stocks hitting new all-time highs almost every day, global bond yields at or near zero, and Canadian home prices at nose-bleed levels, it seems like everything these days is in a bubble. This is particularly true for the Toronto housing market with average home prices up 22% Y/Y.
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Decline of the Dad Job
Before I learnt to read I made sense of the world by conjuring up images in my mind, particularly for abstract concepts. I could count before I could read and had an image for each number. Many of …
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Sexism at Uber from Female Management
My last days at Uber in San Francisco were filled with disrespect, condescending managers, and sexism.
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The Other Half
On January 19th of this year, I set off to California to participate in a hastily-arranged appearance in a UCLA building to talk about saving climate data in the face of possible administrative swi…
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Satirical Summaries of Hacker News
Does anyone have any questions about NAFTA for my PSYCHIC PIG?
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DHS Quietly Testing Mandatory Facial Recognition of Passengers Exiting U.S
We’re all used to having to identify ourselves as we enter a country. It is the only way we can hope to have any attempt at a secure border. But, so-called “exit controls,” wher…
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When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart
I wrote this in 2012, when CloudFlare (an almost awkwardly popular CDN) introduced a bug into websites they hosted using some of their "advanced features" via injected JavaScript that managed to not just break the website but lock up entire web browers by tickling a scheduler starvation bug in WebCore. This issue was…
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Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons
CHAPTER from SKIN IN THE GAME
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PGP needs to be retired in honor
personal ramblings, noone cares about
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Social Media Needs a Travel Mode
News reports tell us that Customs and Border Patrol has become more aggressive about checking social media accounts at the border. In doing this, the United States joins a growing list of countries that recognized the value of these accounts, and the unique data mining opportunity that a border crossing provides.
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What I Heard from Trump Supporters
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a...
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Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons
18 Feb, 2017 Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto outlines his vision for a centralised global colony ruled by the Silicon Valley oligarchy. I say we must do the exact opposite and create a world with individual sovereignty and a healthy commons.
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Manifestos and Monopolies
Facebook has long had too much power, but Mark Zuckerberg’s expressed willingness to use said power for political ends means it’s time to consider countermeasures.
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‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story
Famous Ted Chiang SF short story ‘Story Of Your Life’ is usually misinterpreted as, like the movie version 𝐴𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙, being about time-travel/precognition; I explain it is instead an exploration of xenopsychology and a psychology of timeless physics.
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Deleting Uber is the least you can do
Uber is what you get when you take Silicon Valley’s most toxic values, add billions of dollars in venture capital, and spice it with…
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The Great Moon Hoax
On August 25, 1835 the <i>New York Sun</i> announced the discovery of life on the moon. It explained that the discovery had been made by the famous British astronomer Sir John Herschel, who had invented a new telescope of vast dimensions and an entirely new principle. Over the course of the next week the <i>Sun</i>…
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What makes the perfect office?
In 1923, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for workers in his factory near Bordeaux. Le Corbusier duly delivered brigh…
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ICANN has taken my site hostage
This is an short story on how ICANN acts like mafia and has taken my site Nomad List hostage for 2 days now. Here’s how my site used to look: Here’s how it has…
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Map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s Iliad
This is a map showing where all of the characters originated in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad. I know Greece is small by today’s standards, but it was surprising
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