Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for February 15th from 23:05 to 02:44:

• [toread] Doing more with less: the economic lesson of Peak Paper – Robbert Bremer/Flickr For most of us, the industrial economy is a thing of the past. In the entire United States, large factories employ fewer than 2 million people. Even adding China to the picture
• [toread] The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people – An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the tarmac. In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that "we kill people based on metadata." Now, a new examination of previously published Snowden
• [toread] One-Participant 401(k) Plans – A one-participant 401(k) plan is sometimes called a: Solo 401(k) Solo-k
• [toread] Could the Post-Pandemic Chaos of ‘The Division’ Really Happen? – It starts on Black Friday, as shoppers storm high street stores in search of the next bargain. Little do they know that the hard-earned cash they
• [toread] Remembering ‘Portal,’ Activision’s Interactive Novel – The word
• [toread] Headshot: A visual history of first-person shooters – Many of us are familiar with the first-person shooter (FPS) creation myth—that it materialized fully formed in the minds of id Software founders John Carmack and John Romero shortly before they
• [toread] Neutrinos continue run of odd behavior at Daya Bay – Enlarge / The interior of one of Daya Bay's detectors. View all… Late last week, the Daya Bay experiment in China released a new set of measurements of the neutrinos produced by the nuclear reactors
• [toread] Neutrinos continue run of odd behavior at Daya Bay – Enlarge / The interior of one of Daya Bay's detectors. View all… Late last week, the Daya Bay experiment in China released a new set of measurements of the neutrinos produced by the nuclear reactors
• [toread] Looking at Amazon and Lumberyard a bit more. – Last time I wrote about Amazon and gaming and since that post
• [toread] Zenefits and Regulation – From BuzzFeed: Parker Conrad has resigned as CEO of Zenefits, following a number of regulatory compliance failures at the richly valued human resources startup he co-founded, according to an email