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Against signed integer types

"Unreachable" beauty standards

Socialism and libertarianism: The two idiots

The rats' race and the pie in the sky

Masters don't need

Limited empathy and large out-groups

Crappy gaming laptops recap

Scott Adams' Trump argument, and improving democracy

Barva kože in karibska idila: najine izkušnje iz St. Kittsa

The Overrated Compass

Most people are no good at long-term planning

Musicians "saving" the world

Transaction ethics as root of social/libertarian disagreement

Survey of SSL/TLS use in SMTP mail exchangers

Republicanism is fascism

The doghouse: Vagaries of the Excel COM interface

"auto" considered (often) harmful

Our bitching and moaning: Why the Middle East cannot have peace

The advantages of Seq, and the demerits of std::string const&

Can we stop with this idiocy of private courts?

On Daylight Saving Time

Modern-day pyramid building

Spec author "fixes mistake", wastes everyone's man-year

This ex-libertarian endorses Sanders

When monospace fonts aren't: The Unicode character width nightmare

C++ Relocator proposal

Acetaminophen (paracetamol, Tylenol) more toxic than thought

Apple design is anti-nerd

Science, spirituality, and the limits of the materialist paradigm

The ethics of non-consensual monogamy: coercion and dead bedrooms

How the Yugoslav army dealt with liabilities

Ossification and Hawaii: Impressions of a C++ working group

Love and function

"Good, traditional" traits

Attractiveness is not shallow

VS 2015 projects: "One or more errors occurred"

Algorithm for selective archival or aggregation of records

Exceptions in destructors and Visual Studio 2015

The main asset of the US is its value system

Whistleblowing policy proposal

SFTP and OpenSSH's "do as we please"

Aggregated exceptions: Proposal summary

Errors in destructors: C++ and the case for aggregate exceptions

Code as concise expression of thought

Your production code should assert

Why I use "SomeObj const&", not "const SomeObj&"

Reporting errors in destructors

C++ should support temporary objects as lvalues

INS insurance in Costa Rica: Evidence is not enough

BusyBeaver and the state of near-native code in browsers

Against the hating of cheaters

Visual C++ ternary operator considered harmful

The reasons for the wars

You get what you pay for: Infographic

Acetaminophen may cause autism, ADHD in vulnerable children

You get what you pay for.

BusyBeaver key derivation function

Honey badger ought to give a fuck

Atheism's holy cow

The water-efficiency of dinosaur foods!

Lack of fictional distance and American insanity

Non-24-hour living

Fair and unfair agreements

People cheat in lose/lose situations

Self-confidence and crazy men

Rest in peace, victims at Charlie Hebdo

Study: Sweeteners cause diabetes through changes in gut flora

Vitamin D-3 test results

On moral relativism

Vitamin D-3 and depression

Reading list for afterlife studies

Bill Gates in favor of progressive tax on consumption

Politically Correct Asshole

It's not a vitamin, it's a hormone - and we lack it

Terrible Weakness

In favor of economic incentives for healthily-proportioned mixed-race neighborhoods

Aaron's adventures #5

The only thing missing is a Sporebat

Tech breakthrough needed to fix obesity

Dress provocatively to avoid rape

American individualism

Hershey chocolate actually does taste like vomit!

Extraordinary knowing

Alienware sucks worse than MSI

On the relative value of money

/r/polyamory and me

It's just a hunch...

Adderall vs. street meth

The incompatible trinity of relationship features

Breaking Bad is awesome after all

Suggested WoW ability: Living Nightmare / Dying Nightmare

Strong love is not codependency

The perceived threats of non-monogamy to children

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