Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Enginomics

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Enginomics By tech@thehiveworks.com Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The second step is to get the cartoonists to leave town. Today's News: July 25, 2022 at 07:20PM via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal https://ift.tt/LwBVz...

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The Best Camera

The Best Camera By July 13, 2022 at 08:00AM via xkcd.com https://xkcd.com/264...

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Crabs

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Crabs By tech@thehiveworks.com Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Be careful not to join the SMBC patreon, because it's got inappropriate- Today's News: July 12, 2022 at 09:55PM via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal https://ift.tt/FJ2vR...

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Letter of Recommendation: Get a Vasectomy

Letter of Recommendation: Get a Vasectomy By Jason Kottke Men in the US typically do not talk about or worry about birth control that much, to the detriment of the health and safety of women. In the spirit of trying to change that a little, I’m going to talk to you about my experience. About a decade ago, knowing that I did not want to have any more children, I had a vasectomy. And let me tell you, it’s been great. Quickly, here’s what a vasectomy is, via the Mayo Clinic: Vasectomy is a form of male birth control that cuts the supply of sperm...

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Recycling Center Made From Recycled Materials

Recycling Center Made From Recycled Materials By Jason Kottke I love this: the local recycling center in the town of Kamikatsu, Japan is itself made of recycled and upcycled materials. Most prominent of those materials are the hundreds of mismatched windows that form the building’s facade: Brilliant. From Dezeen: Kamikatsu’s main industry was once forestry, but all that remains of this today are neglected cedar forests. Nakamura’s studio worked...

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mathematics

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mathematics By tech@thehiveworks.com Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying Francis Su's new book, Mathematics for Human Flourishing, which slightly changed my view about this type of question. Today's News: Quick notes before blog: One: A bunch of you mutants who use RSS noted that it was having weird formatting issues. I've deformatted today's blog before posting. Please...

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On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain

On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain By Bruce Schneier Earlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space. Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written—not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections…people make to public blockchain systems.” In it,...

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