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I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...

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I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you

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Clickable whitespace It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I...

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Clickable whitespace

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

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It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I can disagree with the choices my employer makes. In fact, I can walk away. But I remember the dilemma I felt I was in, earlier in my career. The lead developer stood behind me...

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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more...

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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

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A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it...

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How to find insights Excel, still invincible!

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How to find insights

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Excel, still invincible!

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Twenty Times Faster On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top...

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Twenty Times Faster

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

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On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed. In one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This post is about that speed, what it does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found. It is the first post of...

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The Discipline and the Discipline at the intersection of art and social science

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The Discipline and the Discipline

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

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at the intersection of art and social science

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Super ultrawide Niri A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad...

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Super ultrawide Niri

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

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A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad configuration for a decade and a half I’ve now modernized my setup with the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor Niri. It’s been a bit of a struggle to unlearn my old workflow but I’m really...

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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing...

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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments.1 Because Spacelab was a European project, it used a French-built minicomputer, the Mitra 125 MS,2 rather than the Shuttle's main...

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bitCards Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards

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bitCards

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards

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Everybody Wants Some!! The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that...

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Everybody Wants Some!!

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

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The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that status in order to try to convey what makes filmmaking uniquely magical: a sense of shared enchantment between the audience and the director, and the ecstasy of the latter pulling a...

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The fresh new videah.net The fresh new videah.net Posted on August 30, 2026 It’s an unfortunate fact of life that every...

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The fresh new videah.net

from videah.net [alt+shift+b] in technology

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The fresh new videah.net Posted on August 30, 2026 It’s an unfortunate fact of life that every tech-savvy person who writes any kind of long-form content is born with an evil curse that compels them to spend more time coming up with increasingly complex byzantine blogging engines...

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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of...

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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology

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In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off...

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Player Trading Cards were the original Blind-Box Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other...

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Player Trading Cards were the original Blind-Box

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other hand have that little map that tells you what each one has inside. So you can avoid the orange ones, anyway… When I came across a couple bags of old hockey cards at a thrift […]

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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my...

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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

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I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.

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Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which...

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Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which you were raised — and will impact your ability to gain traction. In episode 44 of Traction Heroes, Harry read a short segment from Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the...

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The Talk Show Timeline I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while...

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The Talk Show Timeline

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

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I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while since it was in my feed. I decided to chart previous episode dates to check some of my assumptions about release frequency. Cutting to the chase, here’s a link to The Talk Show...

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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port) Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily...

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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily fluids, we must remove the scurrilous larrikin influence of Australia upon our American home computers, and I know exactly where to start! Why allow Dick Smith's name (even though he'd...

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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map...

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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

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In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter. I...

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Solitaire Alone Together Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98...

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Solitaire Alone Together

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...

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Is This A Joke? In The Auth Header? (F5 BIG-IP UnAuth Heap-Overflow to RCE CVE-2026-94127) Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're...

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Is This A Joke? In The Auth Header? (F5 BIG-IP UnAuth Heap-Overflow to RCE CVE-2026-94127)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're back. Sorry. We've been watching the onslaught of vulnerabilities flood the internet. Every man, dog, and their grandmas (apparently?) are now using LLMs to find and reproduce...

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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots [Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation

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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

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[Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation

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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s...

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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

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This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.

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From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure,...

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From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure, proprietary systems, and steep learning curves. That’s changing – fast. Foundation models powerful enough to run at the edge are turning natural language into machine control, and the...

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Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford Seize the means of code production!

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Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Seize the means of code production!

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1Password with an unbelievable own goal Andrew Lilley Brinker: 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe Omarchy is a Linux...

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1Password with an unbelievable own goal

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Andrew Lilley Brinker: 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe Omarchy is a Linux distribution created and controlled by David Heinemeier Hansson, usually known as DHH. DHH is the founder and CTO of 37signals (formerly Basecamp) and creator of Ruby on Rails. In the last...

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How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this...

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How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

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The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this year. This is all to do with the industry-wide adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. At The Pragmatic Engineer, we always want to capture as much of what’s going on

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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...

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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

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The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.

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How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers...

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How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices

from Azad's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers behind in macOS Sound settings. Copy-paste this prompt to your AI agent Prompt: Remove the leftover Virtual Desktop Streamer audio components from my Mac. Move these exact items to...

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How to fix Top Gear And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson

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How to fix Top Gear

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

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And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson

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Which stories about academia matter? The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom

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Which stories about academia matter?

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

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The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom

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Silence Isn't Violence The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And,...

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Silence Isn't Violence

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

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The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And, of course, say what the mob says or we’re still the bad guys. But silence is often more profound.

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BM Snaps Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For...

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BM Snaps

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For one week, it’s the most interesting art and technology playground in the world, creativity unbound. As a photographer, it’s a great place to test out new gear and processes. Here’s...

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Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple... Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of...

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Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple Watch

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of Jinja2 templates to get a rain forecast graph on my Apple Watch: eight Unicode block characters showing the next two hours in 15-minute chunks, glanceable without unlocking the phone....

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avalanche technology One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy, ever-growing text...

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avalanche technology

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

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One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy, ever-growing text file of topics for future articles contains a bunch of ideas that have been there for about six years. Part of the problem is that I just have to scroll so far up to even see them...

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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...

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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems with numerical stability. This...

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All The Ways I Broke My Website This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I...

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All The Ways I Broke My Website

from Ian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I value those who have the confidence to own their mistakes and share the learning with others, and so this is me doing just that! That Time I Accidentally Made a Tarpit That Time I...

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The Reason You Prohibit Things You want less of them. That’s the reason. You may find that it’s too hard to stop people from doing...

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The Reason You Prohibit Things

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

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You want less of them. That’s the reason. You may find that it’s too hard to stop people from doing the thing, literally blood, sweat, and tears trying to prosecute people, but that’s a different thing.

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