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Why I don't like smartphones
They are unequal devices. Smartphones are unapologetically devices for consumption. In this regard they differ critically from PCs, because PCs are equal devices in the sense that the same device is used for creation and consumption. This means that anyone with a PC can create as well as consume, if they so wish. This…
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Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)
American and European semi-trucks are very different. You don‘t have to be a truck enthusiast or have brilliant understanding of the mechanical part of these machines to see that semi-trucks used in USA and Europe look very different. But why? Why different ideas about what the truck should look like prevailed in…
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Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
A Bed Assembly Drama
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Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average
This is a story about McGill education students that cannot calculate an average, and the professor who admitted he didn't care. Fina...
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Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
After the wave of layoffs at Meta (previously known as Facebook) in November of 2022, I recall messages in the Facebook group for former employees discussing how to handle elements of the redundancy process, like if it was possible to max out retirement saving contributions, or spending gym benefits whilst
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No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
No, I don’t want to subscribe to your newsletter. No, I don’t want to complete a short survey. And no, I don’t want to become a member. … Is that text in the background? There is content on this page, right? Does the escape key work? Why doesn’t the escape key work? Where’s the close icon? If this is it, why isn’t my…
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The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022)
A Hackernews comment introduces a new character
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The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”
The drive-to version of a walkable main street, surrounded by parking lots, is like a Western movie set made of fake building facades: all hat and no cattle.
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Mozilla and Google Objections Overruled on “Decentralized Identifiers” by W3C
The W3C Member review of the Decentralized Identifier (DID) 1.0 Proposed Recommendation concluded with Formal Objections from three organizations.
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New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story tha…
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Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating
At ILikeStuffBlog.com, we’re passionate about… well, stuff! From the latest tech gadgets, mouth-watering recipes, to the coziest home decor trends, and the most breathtaking travel destinations, we’ve got it all. Dive into our world where curiosity meets inspiration, and discover content that speaks to your interests…
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Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down …
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Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy
I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab (OSL). Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While the Oregon State College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes in…
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YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music Posted by timothy on Sunday February 26, @04:43PM from the estate-of-john-cage-winces-with-envy dept. New submitter eeplox writes “I make natu…
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Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?
wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.
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Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
By Laurence Boone, Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department; and Marissa Plouin, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Following a period when homele…
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What is ‘elite overproduction’?
Elite overproduction … describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.
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The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
The Billion-Dollar Surveillance Pipeline: From Occupation Technology to Global Control
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Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions
Albertsons uses land use restrictions in Mammoth, CA to stop competition so it can be the only store in town.
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Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs
Indeed Chief Economist sheds light on the next Silicon Valley and discusses characteristics of tech jobs in eight hubs around the U.S.
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Asbestosis
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Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns
Dutch Personal Data Authority raised concerns about Google's GDPR compliance.
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I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
There has been rather a lot of doomsaying (and perhaps astroturfing) lately about LLMs as the end of computer programming. Much of the discussion has been lacking nuance, so I’d like to add mine. I see claims from one side that “I used $LLM_SERVICE_PROVIDER to make a small throwaway tool, so all programmers will be…