I’m not generally supportive of term limits for legislative office. Nobody’s forcing us to re-elect incumbents. Why limit our choices? Seniority in itself may in some cases be a contributor to some politicians’ lack of commitment to the public interest, but surely money is a much, much larger contributor. I worry that calls for term…

Of them to whom much is given, much is expected. Honestly, I think the United States should be kicked out of the first world (or “developed world”), stupendous per-capita income notwithstanding. We have a first-world level of economic development but a well below first world level of social development. That should be reflected in international…

A city with virtually no for-profit sector is not the hill I want to die on in the short term. What I’m absolutely sick and tired of is cities pinning all their hopes on becoming “innovation hubs” or some other buzzphrase of rah-rah entrepreneurism. I would hope even the mildly left of center see that…

The law has more respect for trade secrets than it should, and companies have come to feel entitled to them. I respect intellectual property (even though I see it as a fundamentally broken institution in need of a major overhaul) but I don’t consider trade secrets a legitimate form of intellectual property as I do…

‘explain the gap in your resume’ is soooooo infuriating cos maybe i was just vibing? maybe something catastrophic happened? why do you have to share intimate personal details to justify non-productive/non-labouring periods of your literal human existence omg — Sukhnidh ⚆ _ ⚆ (@skhndh) November 17, 2020 Absolutely. A pause in moneygrubbing is unassailable evidence…

As is now my editorial policy, comments I make in $ocial media that add up to more than a couple of sentences get reposted to the present decidedly noncommercial (anticommercial) venue. In that spirit, I offer a copy of this reply to youthdecay’s comment in Reddit’s /r/breadtube: It’s true that everybody be monetizing, and it’s…

There will always be paying gigs for those who speak power to truth. I need occasional reminders of this fact, so I appreciate it when people point out that a large amount of economic research is essentially corporate-sponsored. Sometimes I’m tempted to question whether I’m some kind of science denialist because I long so plaintively…

Obviously the very concept of a nation-state having an official news agency, let alone a government-run news outlet, literally screams propaganda, and of course I therefore take with a grain of salt news broadcasts from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) or BBC, or the shortwave-radio-like offerings from DW (Germany) and NHK (Japan) seen on the PBS-adjacent…

picture: JD Hancock licence: CC-BY 2.0 I’ve wasted most of my life so far trying to figure out how to have a “tech” career w/o having a “defense” career, I’m starting to think the world is arranged in a way so business, let alone consumers, have to wait in line behind military when it comes…

Posted the following as a comment on What is the difference between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS en UaaS? on the website of a company called Nucleus. Re-posting it here, because re-posting to the present blog is now my standard operating procedure, and particularly because as a comment there, it’s awaiting moderation, so I figure if I…