Insurance Companies Make U.S. Healthcare Expensive
Because insurers are paid a fixed percentage of the claims they administer, they have no incentive to hold down costs. Worse than that, they have…
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My Friend Writes Like This
A bird hit my windshield on the freeway, on the way home from work this morning. I pulled over on the next exit, and picked…
What This Site is About
And when I say “this site”, I’m really saying “me”. Existentialism: How to create our own meaning and our own happiness, since it doesn’t exist…
Programming Atrophy
It’s stunning to me how stale one can become when they don’t code for a while. I just put together a quick little something in…
The Simple Economic Reason I Prefer Apple to Google
The iOS/Apple vs. Android/Google debate has been explored for years by thousands of people. We know the arguments and they’re rather boring at this point.…
Albert Camus’ Absurdism | Daniel Miessler
In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual’s search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe. As beings…
Building a Domain Reputation API
I thought it’d be useful recently to take a list of email addresses, say from sales leads, and determine how “legitimate” the leads were. Obviously…
Four Types of Project | Daniel Miessler
If we classify projects into four categories by important vs. unimportant, and interesting vs. unpleasant, we can assess what happens under open allocation. Important and…
Interesting Analysis of Karl Marx’s Writing
I’ve not read much Marx. What I know of his work reduces to knowing what others think about what they’ve heard about other people reacting…
The Idiotic Irony of Opposing Equality for Homosexuals
In all the opposition to equal marriage rights for homosexuals I find only one possible line of legitimacy. That line says that, for whatever reason(s),…
A Reminder About Jobs and Profit
It’s important to remember something about jobs: every industry is trying as hard as it can to automate human workers out of existence in order…
Embracing the Illusion of Free Will
Image from maniacsworld I am often asked how I square the circle of recognizing that free will doesn’t exist but still embracing the joys of…