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More friends should have secret codes.1 If you're at a restaurant and the waiter asks "do you want desert?", you often have this weird back-and-forth where 1) you're trying to figure out if the other person(s) want desert, 2) you're
A good reason to not believe in UFOs is that only 13% of tenure-line faculty at major research institutions do. This post attempts to address other, less-good reasons people dismiss them. Aliens Acting Weird To quote someone who made a 150:1 odds bet against UFOs: the supervast majority of
I sometimes despair about 80/20ing online privacy and security: I fear this is one of those things where you either go to superhuman lengths to get privacy or you accept that you're getting nothing at all. (Richard Stallman abjures cell phones, key cards, credit cards, and browsing
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More friends should have secret codes.1 If you're at a restaurant and the waiter asks "do you want desert?", you often have this weird back-and-forth where 1) you're trying to figure out if the other person(s) want desert, 2) you're
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What happens when you can't trust photos, videos, text, or the entire web?
