- After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time this summer. The original reasons for temporarily emigrating – the prolonged school lockdowns and other pandemic madness – have long since evaporated, a…
+Bluesky is a purportedly-decentralized social media company that spun out of Twitter, beginning in 2019. It makes sense that people are hunting for new social media platforms right now — Elon Musk's disastrous takeover of Twitter has demonstrated how …
- via David Heinemeier Hansson + via Wesley Aptekar-Cassels - June 25, 2023 + April 28, 2023Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. -My history with infra…
+Tether's November 2022 attestation, even if believed, strongly suggests it blew up (again) during the recent crypto route.
- via mtlynch.io + via Kalzumeus Software - June 17, 2023 + November 12, 2022June 16, 2023 I wonder if I’ll ever run out of material for the Safe Withdrawal Series. Fifty-eight parts now, and the new ideas come faster than I can write posts these days. This month, I initially planned to write about the effects of timing Social Sec…
+An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of August, 2021. One Bad Apple August 08, 2021 (comments) An Internet is mad about Apple (business model: "Uber for spyware") turning your phone into a cop…
- via Early Retirement Now + via n-gate.com. - June 16, 2023 + October 18, 2021- After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time this summer. The original reasons for temporarily emigrating – the prolonged school lockdowns and other pandemic madness – have long since evaporated, a…
+Bluesky is a purportedly-decentralized social media company that spun out of Twitter, beginning in 2019. It makes sense that people are hunting for new social media platforms right now — Elon Musk's disastrous takeover of Twitter has demonstrated how …
- via David Heinemeier Hansson + via Wesley Aptekar-Cassels - June 25, 2023 + April 28, 2023Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. -My history with infra…
+Tether's November 2022 attestation, even if believed, strongly suggests it blew up (again) during the recent crypto route.
- via mtlynch.io + via Kalzumeus Software - June 17, 2023 + November 12, 2022June 16, 2023 I wonder if I’ll ever run out of material for the Safe Withdrawal Series. Fifty-eight parts now, and the new ideas come faster than I can write posts these days. This month, I initially planned to write about the effects of timing Social Sec…
+An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of August, 2021. One Bad Apple August 08, 2021 (comments) An Internet is mad about Apple (business model: "Uber for spyware") turning your phone into a cop…
- via Early Retirement Now + via n-gate.com. - June 16, 2023 + October 18, 2021Check it out on Goodreads I had picked up this one thinking it to be an autobiography, and with an expectation that it’ll cover Rajan’s tussles with the government in more details. I was pleasantly surprised to find instead a good collection of technical essays covering the workings of RBI, and economics in general. If you’re looking for a good explanatory work in the field of Economics (and especially those concerning India and its policies), you’ll enjoy this....
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