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Software defined bikes can resist theft in quite a few ways, making theft impractical. See https://weel.bike/ for some details.

Note that the most recent commit to this repo is 7 months ago.

Note that this quarter spanned 14 weeks, while last year had 13. This was actually 7% or so worse than at first glance.

Note that this quarter spanned 14 weeks, while last year had 13. This was actually 7% or so worse than at first glance.

Interesting financial tidbit: they paid off over $8B in commercial paper (very short-term borrowing) over the past year.

Humane will launch its first product(s).

Micromobility EVs may make a much bigger contribution to climate change amelioration.

Reading this triggered so many memories of system programming disasters and victories I have seen and participated in:

The circular disk output buffer which emulated Ouroboros and eating its own tail, started sending patient data back to the wrong hospital

The minicomputer which stopped working (while I was programming it), because a chip had disappeared from the CPU backplane

The only soldering I ever committed (which my boss disparaged as really ugly when he returned from giving the demo which that soldering had saved) which enabled me to debug a race condition in a distributed OS I was coding, by creating an RS-232 null modem so I could run two copies of the OS on the same microVAX

And too many more to bore you with.

Setapp for Mac and ios apps seems to be doing quite well, providing a plethora of great indie software for a reasonable price.

Check out the Calculated Risk blog, where I learned almost everything I know about the events leading up to the Great Financial Crisis, and the GFC itself.

I wonder if one of the reasons I don’t seem to gain weight while being very sedentary, and eating quite a bit of sugar and fat, is that the salt I use is 50/50 sodium/potassium chlorides.

> This is all happening because Obama didn't have the balls to just let the shoddy banks crash and burn, and we continued QE for around a decade to alleviate blowback from 2008. This, combined with other factors (a lax policy w.r.t. foreign investments in real estate), will screw us in the long run.

It also happened because most of the FBI agents who worked on white-collar fraud prior to 9/11 were reassigned to counter-terrorism work afterwards, and so the rampant fraudulent appraisals and mortgages prior to the housing crash were never investigated, let alone prosecuted.

Contrast 2008 with the reaction to the S & L debacle.

Imagine muggers with this tech. Imagine gangs with cameras guarding approaches to their turf – watching for rival gangs, cops, and people who have been placed on the all-gang database of marks and narcs.

Perhaps left-wing satire of right-wing hypocrisy?

if A is false then A implies B is true, whatever the truth value of B is. Thus arguing from a false premise is meaningless.

> Your hard working kid isn't entitled to Harvard

Just remember that about 45% of Harvard’s undergrads got to cut in line ahead of your hardworking kid because they were athletes, legacy admits, children of people the deans thought might kick in a few million, or children of Harvard faculty.

Many more e-bikes and scooters than unicycles - in EU more than e-cars soon. https://electrek.co/2021/01/21/electric-bicycles-e-bikes-to-...

Not counting e-bikes and scooters≥]…

Brings back memories of my first programming job, when my paycheck bounced - the company had a million-buck overdraft at Citi (or whatever they were called at the time - '69). For the next couple months, the founder paid me from his wife's checking account.

Typo: it's actually version 26.

An important analysis of “race” as a construct of the ruling elites is described [0] by a high school classmate(!) of mine, who edited it.

[0] https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/theodore-w-allen-s-the-inve...

Prop 13, however, doesn’t apply to sales tax.

I've just been reading Babel, by R.F.Kuang, a fantasy novel which explores the E.I.C. in a strange and wonderful way. Well worth reading.

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” Mark Twain

Many years ago (1980 I believe) I heard the following rumor about a company I was doing some contract work for: they submitted two full time time cards for many of their consultants, one to a government customer, one to a private sector customer.

Apple is getting ready to release iOS 15.7, which will work on iPhone 7…

A little INIT/CDEF called Scroll2.

In about a year it'll be 60 years since I wrote my first dozen programs, all in Fortran, all running first shot(I still find that nearly unbelievable, although they were trivial). A couple of months ago, I got a check in the mail paying for some 35-year-old Mac shareware. Computers are the shizz.