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"A Prayer for the City" follows Ed Rendell's mayorship of Philadelphia. When Rendell succeeded Wilson Goode the city was on the verge of a financial meltdown. The government was li…

I periodically mail a DVD of important stuff to my parents and ask them to toss it in the basement. You could do the same thing with backup tapes, or whatever. Drives/tape/flash/dv…

I keep seeing articles about Go where Python developers seem to be shocked to discover that interpreted dynamically typed languages are very slow. This wasn't obvious from the get-…

I love the picture. What a political agitator. He was a good little left wing agitator and was fatally shocked to learn that when you're not serving the agenda you can get bit.

Technical debt can accrue to the point where a piece of software is "bankrupt." Any successful refactoring amounts to extracting a subset and redoing everything else, which can pra…

I don't think corporatism is the right word as it has distinct political connotations. I think you're just talking about mass industrial employment. I think the important dynamic y…

It's a formulaic little disco song. It's calculated soulless pop. I don't get the appeal.

I'm actually curious why you associate open borders with socialism/communism. That's usually considered an anarcho-capitalist position. Pro-worker policies like organized labor and…

> minimum wage or some kind of socialist initiative The socialist initiative we need is to shut down unskilled immigration entirely. Read the article; they're all Hispanic. These p…

I was thinking more like Philadelphia to Charlotte.

I would pay more and tolerate slower flying times if the trade off was a less hellish flying experience. The TSA sucks. Flight attendants suck and the seats suck. Airport public tr…

I'm also too cheap for bullet trains. Lots of people cheer-lead for high speed rail in America, but all I want is normal trains that run quite frequently.

Why the heck do these people want to advertise to Americans? This is a Turkish issue among Turks. What does Uncle Sam have to do with this? Inviting foreign involvement and comment…

Most people have lived very healthily on diets consisting 90%+ of various cereal or potato gruels. I just don't see how a high-tech powder really simplify things. You can almost li…

You may feel that clothing is boring and something you can look past, but you are in a tiny minority. By failing to invest a bit in your appearance you are foolishly forgoing subst…

> I mostly do it because I'm lazy. You do realize that's exactly the impression your habit conveys, right?

I think the failure of so many in the software/IT business to dress and groom to professional standards has important consequences. The perception of the social prestige of the occ…

So I guess you could say he's your boyfriend. In the case of the original story you could say girlfriend or lesbian lover. Both terms are much better than partner. "Partner" is ser…

> my mother's partner was diagnosed What business is this mother in? An accountancy? Perhaps you meant to say spouse?

Well, most people are serfs, and poor. I don't think you can define "rich" as a population proportion. In a lot of places in the world 100% of people are poor. I don't think it's u…

No to mention there's no such thing as low risk 7% returns. Maybe the S&P historically did that for a 15 year period here and there, but anyone telling you it's something you can p…

To put it into perspective here's Felix Dennis's wealth classification table: £1m-£2m: The comfortable poor £2m-£5m: The comfortably off £5m-£15m: The comfortably wealthy £15m-£40m…

> Japanese police in general are pretty low-key Ha! There are loads of accounts of the falsely accused getting locked up with zero due process. You can find yourself in an unheated…

I agree with your sentiment, but note that the white English "working" class has descended into much higher criminality and violence over the last fifty years. So there are other f…

The Japanese criminal justice system is brutal by world standards. This usually goes unmentioned when people bring up Japanese crime rates.