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The asymmetry of nudges
Answering the age-old question: why do bad decisions happen to good companies?
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A Future Without MPEG
Table of contents Introduction The situation today The competitors What is/will be available What the market offers Licensing of other media coding standards My views on the next steps of media coding standards A disclosure My forecast So, what will happen next? And now? Introduction My plan this week was to talk…
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The History of Coffee (2015)
Who discovered coffee trees? Who invented coffee as we enjoy it now? Learn coffee history and its journey across the globe from the 9th century to today.
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A Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail Party
Dewars, safety rules, barware, and drinks: how to throw a liquid nitrogen cocktail party, in the spirit of Dave Arnold's Liquid Intelligence, without anybody losing an eye.
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Unified Patent Court is more expensive and an SME killer
Brussels, 31 october 2021 — FFII says the proposed Unified Patent Court is an SME killer with its super-expensive court fees of 20.000EUR. No small company will be able to defend itself if it is accused of violating a patent, the proposed UPC court fees will deny access to justice for small companies, the cost […]
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The Scariest Company in Tech
The last few days have rocked the mobile world. HP is posturing itself as a major new player with WebOS. Nokia jumped from their burning platform into the sweet embrace of Microsoft (they are no do…
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California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State
San Francisco—Californians who’ve merely been arrested and not charged, much less convicted of a crime, have a right to privacy when it comes to their genetic material, EFF said in an amicus brief filed Nov. 13 with the state’s highest court. EFF is urging the California Supreme Court to hold that...
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A plea for better open source etiquette
Update: this post kicked off a lively debate over at HackerNews. As a result of doing consulting, I’ve been hopping between a large number of OSS tools and libraries for the past few years. A…
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What if Quality Journalism Isn't?
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Zen Magnets Wins CPSC Case
TL;DR: Zen Magnets won the 2014 hearing. Judge concludes proper use of magnets creates no danger. Some recalls . Still no Zen Magnets to sell.
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Airbnb in the Himalayas
Above my mountain-top cottage in a beautiful Himalayan village, the road ends and the forest begins. After sunset, flying squirrels come out. Leopards
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EU Regulator: Proposal to force websites to pay telcos puts Internet at risk
Europe’s top telecom regulator dealt a strong blow to Europe’s biggest telecoms in a report released in October, finding “no evidence” to justify the proposal from large broadband companies like Deutsche Telekom and Orange to force websites and apps to pay them. The report comes after European Commission
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Hard Questions
Today we're starting something new.
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IA or AI?
I’ve been reading a paper [1] written two decades ago, which itself is an account of events two decades before that. It is Alan Kay nominally writing about the history of a programming langua…
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Michael F. Flynn has died
Hello family, friends and fans of Michael F. Flynn. It is with sorrow and regret that I inform you that my father passed away yesterday,...
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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
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Big problems at the timezone database
The last time I wrote about the timezone database on this blog, the database was under threat from a lawsuit. Fortunately that lawsuit w...
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Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope
The stakes are incredibly high, and Apple knows it. Whatever you think of Apple’s decision to implement these features, they’re not doing so lightly.
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The Astonishing Prescience of Nam June Paik
I hadn’t heard of Nam June Paik until I went to his exhibition at Tate Modern a few weeks ago.
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A Statement from The Tor Project on Software Integrity and Apple
The Tor Project exists to provide privacy and anonymity for millions of people, including human...
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Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location
Case Study ⸺ Using novel technology to analyze groundbreaking chain of command research