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20 dead and 40 wounded in the last attack, in Florida. One guy did that. Just one. To the rest of the world, this is not as shocking as the complete refusal to consider some sense. Just a little bit. Just the semiautomatic. We understand, it’s a vast country, you need a gun to feel safe and […]

A too often discussion: – Dude, i know you, you cannot afford starbucks as often as you post online – Yea, it’s the same cup. – And you dont run and dont go on hikes. – Yea, i know. – Why keep posting this untrue stuff? – For the ladies and the haters, man! – […]

Liudmila Climoc will be CEO of Orange Romania and she will soon find out something funny about her company: all the mentions about who is number one in the telecom game, regarding subscribers, will mention Orange, but will also mention the numbers are not true. Kinda odd, right? And then she will find out that, […]

Both democratic candidates for the US presidential elections have a socialist discourse. The republicans, on the other hand despise socialism and badmouth it without even trying to reason. The problem is not socialism, it’s capitalism, or what we call in Europe “ruthless capitalism”. This sort of “winner take all system” that has been praised in the US […]

I don’t use at all Yelp or TripAdvisor or Swarm or whatever location app is popular right now. I read at one point reviews of bulgarian hotels on Booking.com, but quit after figuring out maids steal only in cheap hotels and only from people carrying their entire jewelery collection with them on vacation. Two weeks ago i took […]

Drake has a new video out, “Hotline Bling”. He did not put it on YouTube, even though he has 2 official YouTube accounts, but on Apple Music. This did not stop a bunch of fake accounts claiming they have the real video, some of them using thumbnails from the original video to trick people to […]

There’s a lot of chatter on Lifehacker and Gizmodo about how Chrome sucks and how it’s bloated and slow and Firefox is so much better because nobody remembers how slow Firefox used to be. The thing is, every browser is slow when u are using it for a long time. And since we do a […]

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

Matt Rosof explains why Google does a lot of stuffing of their own products in their search Regardless of whether Google faces new charges, the thing to keep in mind is that Google is a for-profit company. Its products have to be good, otherwise nobody will use them. But they also serve the larger business […]

I am reading “The Life of the Automobile”, because the last time I read something like that I was 16 and I feel I do not know enough about this topic. So I order the book and start reading. I read up to the point when Adolf Hitler orders Ferdinand Porsche to build the Beetle […]