RIP John Roberts’s Summer Vacation

from the supreme-court-cancel-culture dept At 1:15am early Saturday morning the Supreme Court, in just a few lines of text, did something that was both small and huge: It “directed” the government not to remove anyone detained in the Northern District of Texas (or, more specifically, “All noncitizens in custody in the Northern District of Texas […]

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Talk Your Book: Interest Rates Go Kablooey

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Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for its content. That site is pretty much the same format as this blog, but with some improvements like better mobile rendering on / than this blog has historically had. […]

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Can You Live at an All-Inclusive Resort for Less than a Middle-Class Lifestyle?

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This spa’s water is heated by bitcoin mining

 “I thought, ‘That’s interesting—we need heat,’” Goodman says of Bathhouse. Mining facilities typically use fans or water to cool their computers. And pools of water, of course, are a prominent feature of the spa.  It takes six miners, each roughly the size of an Xbox One console, to maintain a hot tub at 104 °F. At […]

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