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I'm not sure what your point is. A numbering system based on five-fingered hands is still base6. It doesn't make mathematical sense to argue that we learn base10 today because our …

A numbering system based on human fingers would be base6.

I've never understood this thinking. A state has a certain amount of expenditures in their budget. They have to acquire those funds somehow. If they don't collect income tax, they …

Nit pick: 100 years is more like four or five generations.

The Sears catalog

So you're saying, "Grow something unusual."? Something like... water chestnuts? Or mint? Convert your wheat crop to mint? Commodities are commodities because there is such a huge d…

I also own one of those hobby farms. My simple answer is, No. At my scale, barter is pretty useless. How many vegetables will you trade me for one pig? It better be a lot because I…

I generally value tptacek's comments on security matters, but this position doesn't make sense to me. When Apple decides to take away an app I paid for, I have no security to block…

Ok. How about we forgive every outstanding mortgage they hold? They're so big, they can take a hit, right? What's that? They don't hold many mortgages? They sell them all upstream?…

I could take you on a 100 mile ride through my neck of the woods right through dozens of ranchers' grazing grounds and I bet you'd see less than a dozen cows. There's nothing artif…

Just ask the Bundy's

Of course you should stay out of the way. But on the other hand, if everyone stayed out of the way, nobody would actually help. Do you see all those miles of hoses? Where do you su…