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There is shockingly little truth in any of the normal outlets in America.
Universities, mainstream media, common conversation — they all focus on
their own particular vector and spin on truth. And often they’re not even
lying: th…
I’ve been coming repeatedly to a simple conclusion regarding content
creation and the use of social services:
If something is worth creating, it’s worth keeping within your own control.
This includes quick little comment…
Many are confused about the meaning of agnosticism as it relates to things
we as humans are not certain about. The common mistake is combining things
we don’t know yet (A) with those that are probably unknowable (B) with those
th…
From
StackOverflow:
You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut
whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to
work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of…
At BSides-LasVegas this year I saw an exemplary talk on the history of lock
technology and lock picking. Not only was it informative, but it was highly
entertaining as well.
At the end of the talk, the speaker had a questio…
From
Stallman
to
Raymond, the favorite counter-tone in recent days has been that jobs was a great
marketer and a shrewd businessman, but that he was ultimately a force for
evil due to his restriction of freedom of computi…
[ Sep 12, 2011 ]
These are the things I install immediately when I get on a new Windows
machine.
Linux Tools: install tools so that you can do things like ls and grep
without going insane
…
It seems the poor and uniformed are partial to the rhetoric of the rich and
selfish. This is a most unfortunate fact, as it means that the slaves are
demanding the right to be beaten, and they have named the abolitionists as
the …
I have many friends who are libertarians, and when I spew here regarding
politics I often hear from them in comments or via email, “I agree with you
that the Republicans are crazy, but I’m a Libertarian…”, and so on.
Let me…