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Why do east Asian firms value drinking?
East Asian businesses often go out drinking.
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The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead
The Unreliability of LLMs & What Lies Ahead
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The sorry state of neighbourhood design in America: a mother writes
A mother who moved to the USA from Germany paints a depressing picture of the car-dependence of American neighbourhoods.
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The myth of Snow Leopard
It was a hot mess, but the myth is useful today.
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The gift card accountability sink
The gaps scammers exploit in gift cards are the result of deliberate policy tradeoffs.
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The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays
And then punished the Jew who objected to that action.
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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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‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
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The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn
Update (1/22/2012): SOPA was indefinitely postponed by Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday (PIPA is likewise stalled). Rep. Smith also has another Internet rights bill on deck though: the The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which mandates that Internet services store customer data for up to 18…
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How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital
Security Privacy Surveillance "Sarah Cortes"
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Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes
UPDATE: it appears that the pathetic cowards who perjured themselves filing these maliciously false copyright infringement claims have chick...
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Chris Avellone about why he “didn’t fight any of this”
Since “updates” can usually get lost in the noise, the most recent updates are put first.
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Great Problems: An Epidemic of Rent-Seeking
America follows the path of late Rome: Fortunes no longer arise from creating new wealth, but via exploiting privileged relations with the state.
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Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publis...
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The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems
We now know a lot about the security of the Rapiscan 522 B x-ray system used to scan carry-on baggage in airports worldwide. Billy Rios, director of threat intelligence at Qualys, got himself one and analyzed it. And he presented his results at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit this week. It’s worse than you might…
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Visualizing every job in the world
A visualization of every single job in the world (or at least in the EU)
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People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.