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Pork barrel software planning

In the US Congress, Pork Barrel spending happens when a bill (proposal for a law), on its path to collecting votes to become law, gets bloated with a bit of "pork". The "pork" in this case is national funding for local, specialized projects. In the…

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Climbing the corporate ladder: the FAANG game

Rene Girard, a philosopher, posits that all desire is mimetic; that is, we want things because someone we admire has them. That person becomes a model of our desires, and we aim to copy that person. Thus desire is not a duality, subject and object; but…

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$1/month static website on AWS

This post describes the basic setup of this blog, which uses the following tools: Publii for static website content generation, AWS S3 and AWS Cloudfront for hosting, AWS Certificate Manager for HTTPS, AWS Route53 for DNS, and Gandi.net for domain name registration. This guide assumes you have an AWS account set up, all the AWS service configurations are accessible through console.aws.amazon.com. 

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