Disappointing Liberals | Daniel Miessler
So I had one of my posts make the front page of Reddit on Friday. I ended up taking around 30,000 hits to the site…
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Home for One Year | Daniel Miessler
Sometime around this week marks one year that I’ve been back home in the Bay Area. It’s been the best year of my life. My…
Plato’s Ultimate Argument Against God-given Morality
If someone says morality comes from God you must ask a simple question: Is there a reason he made certain things right and certain things…
The Alien Social Scientist Test for Meaning
I have a basic test I put myself through when I think about whether my work and/or my life has meaning at any given moment.…
A Potential Issue With Immersive Fantasy Games
I’ve been a role-player since junior high school, and I have been a reader of non-fiction long before that. I have a group of friends…
Blog Spam’s Latest Technique: Flattery
Over the last few months I’ve been noticing a trend in blog spam: The use of nice comments and outright flattery. Here are some examples:…
Free Market Fanboys | Daniel Miessler
I was reading the blogroll over at Overcoming Bias and, naturally, encountered quite a number of economics-focused blogs. What struck me was how overtly anti-Obama…
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[tl;dr sec] #275 – Damn Vulnerable MCP, Figma’s Modern Endpoint Strategy, BloodHound for AWS IAM
Deliberately vulnerable MCP to practice your hacking chops, how Figma’s balances usability & security, a new tool to put a leash on naughty AWS permissions…
Random Thoughts on Religion | Daniel Miessler
(cleaning out some notes I had jotted down. Now I’m putting them here instead) Religion needs to die because people don’t look for solutions when…
Sam Harris’s Talk in Berkeley Last Night
So I got to see Sam Harris speak last night in Berkeley. It was stellar. A few things stood out: Adam from Mythbusters was there.…
Table Tennis: The Relationship Between Relaxation, Aggression, and Power
So my #1 issue in Table Tennis right now is getting angry, which results in a tightness that precludes the possibility for power. We see…
The Beverage Approachability Paradox | Daniel Miessler
Anyone who’s tried to learn to enjoy coffee, beer, or wine after not liking their first encounters with them has probably come up against the…