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The article's first example is of a person using a metaphor common to the ex-Mormon community about breaking "the shelf". "The shelf" is where the facts that bring one to question …

... Then everybody clapped.

Economically, the fairest tax system is one that does not affect people's behavior. The most straightforward means of doing this is a head tax, but that's not politically feasible.…

I was assigned a new manager, and they curbed a lot of the unofficial perks I'd been enjoying, like being able to work from home some days. When it came time to turn in self-evalua…

Keep in mind, this is using terminology that comes from courses appropriate for advanced undergrad/beginning graduate level math courses.

How petty of them.

I have a Master's in Economics. In graduate classes, much of the work done in intro-level courses is tossed aside for more capable models that require a fair bit of calculus to und…

This is almost the plot of a scifi novel published in 1994, The Deus Machine, by Pierre Ouellette. The malicious code was placed in introns by nature itself. Need to sanitize those…

If only this were true. I worked at the Ayn Rand Institute, and still keep tabs with their activities and their progress. If Ayn Rand's ideas were as widespreadly acknowledged and …

At the very least, vendors should provide something like a data sheet with all the register information a developer would need to write their own driver. There's no need to give aw…

The ARM SoC marketplace's common hardware denominator is the CPU. The rest of that system differs widely between vendors, and documentation for the pieces is poor-to-nonexistent. T…

The certification comes through acquiring and maintaining the Professional Engineer credential: http://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe

The Aristotelian treatment of causality is what's needed here. Objects act in accordance to their nature. Cause and effect is the course of how objects interact with each other. Fo…

You mean using a taxicab metric to construct a circle? Been done.

Even if somehow tomorrow, all the cars on the road switch to a power source that had nothing to do with petroleum, we would still need loads of oil. Petroleum is a raw material inp…

The article said he used two books, one of which was free. Ordinary Differential Equations make use of linear algebra concepts, but can be self-contained. It's entirely plausible t…

Kay was referencing an idea originated by Stigler, the Inventor, to use as a contrast to Feynman's stance. There was no attack on Stigler as such.

And here's some discussion on making OpenBSD's sleep more efficient (starting with a proposed patch from tedu): http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144280057027331&w=2

Shull doesn't mention the book by Krause [1], which provides exercises for the reader to develop an understanding of Taxicab Geometry. [1]: http://store.doverpublications.com/04862…

Theo is objecting to the view that VMs are a security necessity.

I'm still going to use tail -f, in tmux. I get the log stream, and I get tmux's search & movement.

After a brief skimming on my lunch break: The approach this author takes is similar to the one that Baruch Spinoza uses in formulating a system of ethics, and which David Hume tear…

It's proving a negative assertion, which is impossible. The burden of proof is on the person making positive claims.

If the Pull Request has to do with a bit of UI/UX, images and animations are appropriate, to demonstrate user interaction with the interface.

Then there's also this: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...