Agreed. The commenting system works a lot smoother than other sites, eg Ars and Reddit. Even if it occasionally makes me feel guilty about not spending all my mod points.

What's going on now strongly recalls the gilded age and industrial revolution. I have some hope that things will get better. Maybe if programmers unionize, say... they're close to a trade anyhow.

Maybe even throw in a few incompetent minorities, too. Women are just as capable of making stupid mistakes as men, but Hollywood doesn't want to admit it.

You're probably much better off getting a NUC-style system, perhaps with multiple NICs. The power consumption on the old CPUs is what gets you.

For extra money, you can get windmill electrons instead of normal electrons! This is totally not an accounting gimmick that means that you get the same electrons anyway, because the grid kind of, well, mixes and matches.

Unfortunately, upgradability is a niche concern. I mean, I might even go for a phone that is a half inch thick or even a whole inch, if I can upgrade/replace RAM, battery, wifi, drive, etc.

Can confirm. Law is a place for people who got useless degrees to pretend to learn something. If you go to one of the top ten schools, though, you can get into Big Law and make a fortune... and have no life. I've heard this from my lawyerly relative, and judging from his multiple SCOTUS trips he knows what he's doing.

It could also be Facebook's diversity hiring policies mean that they hire for diversity over skill.

Considering the fate of the last several top of the line Russian/Soviet air defense systems, probably not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Joel Spolsky blogged his way through his startup experience, and since he has an office in NYC and founded Stack Exchange (along with surviving a Bill Gates questionnaire and serving in the IDF) I'd imagine he's a decent source of enlightenment upon the topic. Everything from venture capital to office space, business models, etc.- he blogged about it.

I've had a better experience with Ubuntu than Debian for just works, mostly because Ubuntu supports proprietary drivers much better, which is what you need for some hardware.

Mine certainly is. One AWS instance with a Tor hidden Wordpress site that I'm using to analyze script kiddie activities on the Darknet.

Ah, yes, but we have no idea as to the authenticity of the hack. It's even possible that the CIA has penetrated the Russian intel services and is releasing their hacking tools as part of a sophisticated false flag operation, if not particularly probable.

You mean the two commandments, for those who still use Base-10 and not binary.

Asymmetric crypto using Diffie-Hellman. It's a problem a quantum computer can solve easily (compared to a classical one at least.) It's a big thing on the horizon in cryptography, and I wouldn't be surprised if state actors already possess the tech, or will soon. Definitely important enough to land a spot on the weapons ban list, at least.