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In my experience, "joie de vivre" isn't really everyday vocabulary, but then I've never heard the phrase "joy of living" spoken even once. Google trends seems to bear this out: htt…

You're not missing anything. Yes, this basic assumption underpins all orthodox liberal economics. No, it can't be true.

It's righty because pro-police policies are right wing policies. Sunsetting old laws takes away power from the police, and so is a lefty policy.

While it may be broadly popular in the electorate across party lines, it's definitely a righty policy, since having lots of old, ambiguous laws on the books increases the discretio…

Weird to call something "at a glance" when it is a 500 page PDF that costs $161.

Regular state-employed cops can and often do employ largely the same strategy but on a much bigger scale.

The ITAR restrictions are imposed by the US, not Iran. Therefore, the US is at fault if you believe this to be a problem.

The American solution to this problem is just to charge people for the expense of being arrested and jailed: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/2091-jail-fees

Why bother to exist at all (besides profiting) if nobody is changing their actions based on the reporting or programming you provide? It's a fantasy that there was ever objective r…

If you don't chase ratings, you're not chasing viewers, and you're not having much impact on discourse. The current toxic sludge of cable news sprouted up decades after public broa…

Perl almost does this. Various CPAN packages have different "use" lines where they can declare themselves to be written in a particular version. These can all live together on an i…

Speaking colloquially, I'll often use "pop" as in "Do we have a log of when that event popped?"

I worked for a Dreamhost competitor for years. These "managed VPS" accounts with providers like that are definitely not something where you can just throw your code over the wall. …

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. To me it's obvious that performance reviews aren't and cannot be objective. You may disagree, but this will inevitably lead to dissona…

Yes, I was mirroring your own use of the word "truth." My point is that performance reviews are simply the result of management's opinions. You asked the question "Why do you assum…

Management effectively does know the truth, for the trivial reason that they get to decide what the truth is. They are the ones who get to decide what counts as performing and unde…

My job is definitely not essential (I work in ops for a category of app where nobody dies even if it is unavailable for years at a time). "Essential workers" are the flipside of "b…

...or a cabal of capitalists who never really meet at all but just "coordinate" via the market, media, armies of accountants and lawyers, etc.

I think the frustration is mainly that you have to be logged in and set some Google-specific setting in their application. A well-behaved HTTP server should simply honor the value …

There's usually (always?) an "other" or "I would prefer not to say" option though.

I assume you're asking because people around you tend to smoke spliffs rolled from hash and tobacco. I know this is common in Europe at least, but in the US (and probably elsewhere…

Also the full DEL scheme proposal hinted at in RFC-1 is the subject of RFC-5.

This still seems to be "house style" for a certain brand of "old school" open source mailing list.

Thanks, this does look interesting! I find any old ITS-related technical discussions like this (despite it being ostensibly OS-neutral standards language) to be very difficult to p…

> We propose to implement this solution by creating a language for console control. This language, current named DEL, would be used by subsystem designers to specify what component…