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Oct 2, 2020 at 18:47
Sep 28, 2020
The Swedish success with Covid continues...
Sep 26, 2020
The US left and its belief in institutions
Sep 26, 2020
The level of disease risk at which breathing becomes criminal
Sep 3, 2020
On wokeness
Aug 8, 2020
The immediate purpose of schools is child care. This is essential, virus or no
Jul 29, 2020
How to not break a sweat and get buff in 15 years
Jul 28, 2020
The Doghouse: PSU in the Dell Alienware Graphics Amplifier
Jul 25, 2020
Things you ought to know that people don't
Jul 5, 2020
My favorite breakfast
Apr 24, 2020
Covid-19 from a spiritual perspective
Apr 21, 2020
Covid-19: Stream of recent data points supports the iceberg hypothesis
Mar 31, 2020
Biden vs. Trump: Sex Predator vs. Sex Predator 2020
Feb 24, 2020
Ergonomic keyboards: Microsoft Sculpt vs. Logitech Ergo K860
Jan 17, 2020
Seth on hate with respect to love
Jan 3, 2020
Pura vida, my ass: 5 years in Costa Rica and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
Dec 28, 2019
We already live in a society based on love
Dec 26, 2019
denis tries to teach foreign policy
Nov 10, 2019
Reinventing wheels: A better, sliding-matrix diff algorithm
Nov 5, 2019
Reinventing wheels: A straightforward, two-pass diff algorithm
Oct 16, 2019
My beloved aunt and her All-Adoption
Oct 10, 2019
Forced-birth activists as paperclip maximizers
Sep 15, 2019
AI can change scenery, can't fix suffering
Jul 15, 2019
"Support" incompetence at Amazon (and elsewhere)
Jul 3, 2019
What's wrong with computing?
Jun 14, 2019
The case for SSH over UDP
Apr 30, 2019
Water heater does not work, but no fuses are blown and all circuit breakers seem closed?
Apr 30, 2019
Biden 2020
Apr 15, 2019
Life continues, not begins, at conception
Apr 8, 2019
GDP and the rate of predation: Why can't we protect ALL of the innocent?
Dec 30, 2018
Your silly email parser is not good enough
Dec 20, 2018
Facebook predictions: The campaign against Zuckerberg is about message control
Dec 10, 2018
Simple things that do not work in the US
Jul 21, 2018
Redditors with absolute powers
Jun 13, 2018
Faux stoicism of the confused libertarian / Trumpian variety
Apr 30, 2018
Dunning-Kruger effect in academic subjects without test of truth
Mar 20, 2018
We kept it gray
Feb 2, 2018
The five principles of negotiation (for young adults)
Jan 26, 2018
Missing web security feature: Signed web assets with browser validation
Jan 18, 2018
Samsung Galaxy: Buggy alerts in both Samsung and Google Calendar
Dec 16, 2017
Thoughts on Bitcoin - and why I cashed out of BTC at $18k
Dec 6, 2017
Mudanzas Mundiales: 82 days to move things from Costa Rica to Texas
Nov 30, 2017
Left vs. right: reason and compassion vs. blind principles
Nov 4, 2017
The "woo" of physicalists
Oct 2, 2017
IBM Trusteer Rapport is crap-ware
Aug 13, 2017
For sale: 4-bedroom condo in San José, Costa Rica!
Aug 11, 2017
On the Google vs. James Damore controversy
Jul 20, 2017
"It's hard work to suffer."
Jun 4, 2017
Libertarianism in bullet points
May 29, 2017
Is morality fundamentally objective?
May 27, 2017
Why I no longer like libertarians
May 24, 2017
Microsoft Office: Command Prompt window flashes every hour
Mar 21, 2017
Rust is beautiful
Mar 18, 2017
Limitations of Central-American pronunciation
Feb 9, 2017
"May prosper all the nations"
Dec 19, 2016
Righteous predators
Nov 29, 2016
The $20 billion puppy, and "The buck stops with you"
Nov 28, 2016
Rationalists and control fetishists
Sep 26, 2016
Is the internet ready for DMARC with p=reject?
Sep 9, 2016
Lock-step refactoring
Aug 28, 2016
Loyalty to group vs. principle
Aug 25, 2016
Limitations of single-payer health care
Aug 18, 2016
Why software patents are counter-productive
Jul 30, 2016
Fear: An account of terror on top of a coal stack; by Franc Bider
Jul 28, 2016
Code generation bug with new optimizer in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
May 22, 2016
The barren rockscape and the Garden of the Mind
May 15, 2016
The benefit of some kind of authority
Apr 20, 2016
On the desirable properties of a programming language
Apr 16, 2016
"Hello world" in LLVM IR language without CRT
Apr 13, 2016
Over-education and free college
Mar 29, 2016
Libertarian confusions
Mar 25, 2016
The Louis Vuitton theory of happy marriage
Mar 14, 2016
CamelCase vs. underscore_case
Mar 14, 2016
Against signed integer types
Mar 5, 2016
"Unreachable" beauty standards
Mar 4, 2016
Socialism and libertarianism: The two idiots
Feb 29, 2016
The rats' race and the pie in the sky
Feb 10, 2016
Masters don't need
Feb 5, 2016
Limited empathy and large out-groups
Feb 2, 2016
Crappy gaming laptops recap
Jan 21, 2016
No true study
Jan 17, 2016
Scott Adams' Trump argument, and improving democracy
Jan 15, 2016
Barva kože in karibska idila: najine izkušnje iz St. Kittsa
Jan 12, 2016
The Overrated Compass
Jan 3, 2016
Most people are no good at long-term planning
Jan 1, 2016
Musicians "saving" the world
Dec 23, 2015
Transaction ethics as root of social/libertarian disagreement
Dec 21, 2015
Janez Janša
Dec 9, 2015
Survey of SSL/TLS use in SMTP mail exchangers
Dec 1, 2015
Republicanism is fascism
Nov 26, 2015
The doghouse: Vagaries of the Excel COM interface
Nov 22, 2015
"auto" considered (often) harmful
Nov 21, 2015
Our bitching and moaning: Why the Middle East cannot have peace
Nov 15, 2015
The advantages of Seq, and the demerits of std::string const&
Nov 13, 2015
Can we stop with this idiocy of private courts?
Oct 25, 2015
On Daylight Saving Time
Oct 21, 2015
Modern-day pyramid building
Oct 3, 2015
Spec author "fixes mistake", wastes everyone's man-year
Sep 29, 2015
This ex-libertarian endorses Sanders
Sep 11, 2015
When monospace fonts aren't: The Unicode character width nightmare
Sep 4, 2015
C++ Relocator proposal
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