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It wasn't the worst job I ever had, but the place was really poorly run, and they took advantage of me. I was just a high school kid stocking shelves, but knew as much or more about the computers…

My first real job was at CompUSA. And my experience was identical to what you just described.

There’s still good, old fashioned antennas that deliver much less compressed video than cable.

“They were threatening castration! Are we gonna split hairs here?”

According to his son, Willam F Buckley use to say: “Never fence with an amateur, he’ll kill you.”

You can sell used games on craigslist, ebay, facebook marketplace, or any number of places... often for better prices than GameStop will give you.

This is what I don't get either. I keep thinking of Danny DeVito's speech at the end "Other People's Money." "You know, at one time there must've been dozens of comp…

I didn't mean to imply Switzerland and Belgium are similar. I was saying that they are countries with national identities that are heavily influenced by their neighbors.

Switzerland is also what I call (non-pejoratively) an amalgam country. It’s a got a lot of German and Italian influences. Just like Belgium, which is a mix of French, German, and Dutch cultures.

> Loons are cute toys that got 100x the deserved media attention vs their actual impact. Then they served their real function: marketing

> I would willingly pay more if I knew which items are of good quality, but quite often there is no way to tell. Of course there are ways. It’s called product research and asking friends. For exa…

I'm fine with adding a little humor and levity in a technical book, but only if the following conditions are met: 1. Provides some pedagogic purpose (such as illustrating a point) 2. It's ac…

Literally for decades I have been explaining to people that email is like a postcard, i.e. always assume your message is visible publicly. When social media became popular, I extended the analogy to i…

You seriously think RT should be given the same credence as the BBC? Now that's worthy of a laugh.

I won’t invest in Bitcoin for one reason: No one knows who created it! What if, despite its open source code, its mysterious creator or creators hid a back door or some other nefarious design in it? W…

I'm also not a fan of Gutenberg, which is why I still use the classic editor... which they make harder and harder to find with each update.

NDAs are notoriously difficult to enforce, especially when the party demanding the agreement is significantly more sophisticated and resourced than the party it hopes to constrain the liberties of. Li…

Let’s be honest, the arts and culture division is really just a part of marketing. Maybe not in name, or even on the org chart, but in practice.

What difference does that make? We aren't tech support. I do hope he gets his money back, but he deserves some chiding as well.

You: You've probably only skimmed a few articles. Me: I read their media frequently and in-depth. You: No, what I meant was the theory of the mind.... Me: Sure, pal.

I read and watch their media all the time: Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, Drudge, NY Post, Trump's Twitter, etc. I used to lurk /r/the_donald on reddit and /pol/ on 4chan back in the…

“Instead of asking yourself, “How can they think that?!” ask yourself, “I wonder what information they have that I don’t?” Not being facetious at all, but that heuristic doesn’t work for anti-maskers.…

Wow, that’s great! I can’t wait to read about it for the next decade and never see an actual product using it. Seriously though, battery science must be as hard as they say. Every six months I read ab…

My own unfounded conspiracy theory? It was done by Russia to submarine efforts by the Obama administration to normalize relations with Cuba.

I think about this all the time. I'll be on the highway, cruising along with lots of other cars moving at a high rate of speed all around me and just marvel at the fact that, generally, everythin…

€2300 is too rich for my blood, but I would totally buy something like this if it was more affordable.

I don't know anything about Mitchell beyond what I saw in "The King of Kong," but he and his lackey come off as scheming, haughty jerks in that film.