I think an argument can be made that some of the tech companies or their products should be regulated as public utilities. Slander, libel and incitement to violence are already crimes and we have a legal system to address them. Parler has been found guilty of no crime and yet they've been effectively silenced.

This sort of thing is what happens when management is more concerned with checking boxes than actually securing their data and networks.

Infosec probably got a policy approved which forced DevOps to install an agent on all of their servers. The agent needs Internet access to send data to the vendor and can also be configured to auto-update itself to save staff time. No one cares about the new attack vector because they got to check a box and passed their security audit.

I have seen this happen firsthand in an organization that handled sensitive data and had to conform to HIPAA, ISO and SOC standards. They hired a non-technical person for their Infosec role and didn't seem to care if the solutions were effective. The goal was to make the auditors happy and get/keep the certifications they needed to be competitive in the marketplace.

US dollars are involved in a lot more crimes than Bitcoin.

Bitcoin doesn't need to be a monetary system, it can function as a simple store of value.

I bought some Bitcoin early on and it was easily the best financial decision I ever made. A greater than 4,600% return over the past six years.

A lot of those other cryptocurrencies are ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum network. Not all cryptocurrencies are intended to be stores of monetary value. Some represent things like the ability to interact with a smart contract, voting rights, shares of a pool, membership in an organization, etc.

Don't get into tech unless you're the type of person that gets bored once you've mastered something and who needs to be constantly challenged. Computer science and its applications are so varied that there's always going to be something new to learn.

There are a lot of jobs available and companies have a hard time finding good people. You don't have to go work for a large corporation and be a cog in their machine. There are plenty of small and medium-sized businesses that need help; where you will have the opportunity to wear multiple hats, learn and be creative. You can also pursue contract work and set your own hours. You don't have to work 40+ hours a week if you don't want to.

You also don't have to work the same role forever. I started out as a software developer working on early e-commerce websites, but got bored of that and became a network admin for a telephony provider. I did that for a few years and then got a job at an investment bank doing electronic trading support. Once I had enough of that I found a devops job doing cloud computing and system architecture for a tech startup.

I thought companies were switching to remote work? Why lease a bunch of office space?

Pretty much everyone in my company has been working remote since the middle of March. Employees have relocated out of state and we've hired people from across the country, from Vermont to Colorado.

Do people really want to go back to the old office environment? I understand that some people do, but with more remote work jobs available why risk getting sick? My company did a survey and something like half wanted 100% remote work.

My keyboard's keycaps don't have markings, so I guess it doesn't have an "Enter" or a "Return" key?

Weber describes the state as any organization that succeeds in holding the exclusive right to use, threaten, or authorize physical force against residents of its territory. Such a monopoly, according to Weber, must occur via a process of legitimation.

Twitter's rules simply don't differentiate between legitimate violence and illegitimate violence.

The President's tweet may violate Twitter's rules, but it's definitely not abusive or even all that controversial.

What about a robot moving company? Two people could do a lot more moves in a day if they didn't have to carry loads up and down stairs.

The CEO told everyone in my company to take a mandatory 1/2 day off every week since everyone's been working so hard.

I'm getting so much more done from my home office versus our open plan office. My equipment is better, there's no one talking around me, no walk up questions and I'm steps away from a fully stocked kitchen. I've had a backlog of projects to finish and it's been easy to work 12 hour days without noticing since I can focus on my tasks.

So you're a government worker whose job is not at risk?

With all of those customers touching the merchandise, shouldn't Apple also require gloves?

Why, when somebody creates something and it becomes valuable, do people resent them for retaining some of the value of the thing they created?

Human nature/crab mentality; it's well known that people hate the successful. Envy is one of the 7 deadly sins after all.

It's a lot easier to tear someone down than it is to build others up. People don't want to hear that they need to improve themselves, they want to believe that the other guy is taking what should be theirs.

The Yubikey NEO supports NFC. It's very handy to use on a phone along with OpenKeychain.

I suppose it's a lot easier for people to learn the sciences from books than it is for them to learn the arts? With something like mathematics, physics, chemistry or computer science do you really need class discussions? A teacher would certainly help, but you can generally figure it out yourself with enough experimentation or trial and error.