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Well, it was until you pulled back the curtain.

if Ukraine had retained the nuclear weapons, they would have been the Russian weapons, and Ukraine would not have been flirting with the EU/NATO sphere, etc ... your implication is…

You can imagine the pretty natural go-go-stop behavior. "Good for prestige: go for it." versus "Going to have Mossad and cruise missiles all over the place; shut it down!" versus "…

The failure of Democracy to scale. More specifically, the failure of people who would have common cause within some topic to actually come together over that cause and effect a cha…

well, and also 6 year olds. Every now and then, while talking to a 6 year old, I try to imagine what it might be like to be forensically interviewing one. Very tricky and very easy…

Interesting, but it does not settle the question as to whether the US justice system is inconsistent based on the nationality of the corporation. This list might carry some weight …

The Great Tranformation by Karl Polanyi, wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Awk_Primer, and just finished Anne of Green Gables

That was the point that I stopped reading. I started out looking forward to the map regarding "thinking" but it seemed a foregone conclusion.

What did you make of the discussion toward the end of the article, where it discusses ensuing lightening of the jaw bone?

Yep. Nope. You've outed yourself in an unfortunate way. Everyone wants to do business in the US and everyone is prepared to jump through the hoops to do that business. US regulatio…

It's a fine example. Are you saying that 3 case statements is too many? Why optimize the code to support cases that don't actually exist yet? Or even better, why optimize the code …

Funny you should say that, that's my family motto: "Qui stupidi sunt, ut strenuus me". That he thinks it is ok to cut through residential neighbourhoods because the freeway is back…

Hard to say. Some places need 3 x 1 hr to figure out if a person has the chops. Other places can just figure it out. IMHO, it does seem unnecessary and could point to the area of d…

Yep. But it's not. The difference is that utilities are especially regulated because they have monopolistic operations. Part of the quid pro quo for going forward with the monopoly…

This is the one thing that I will not forgive MS for. They bought the lead guy from Borland rather than compete against the product. I guess it's all fair in business, but it was a…

Ya, good call. It is a super interesting fallacy that people interested in disassembling dysfunctional status quo models should be good at calling-out. Something like a "post hoc r…

I'm calling it: TOD, 12:20 AM PDT REUTERS - In the small hours of the morning Irony coughed up a lung and died. It had been on life-support for nearly a decade when a seemingly inn…

Pff. If 'molten salt' reactors are an inch closer in 10 years, I will eat my hat. The idea is only slightly more appealing than having the reactor fly around under it's own power. …

search and replace as the last launch step

Kind of sad, really, because it once had some useful meaning - like 15 years ago. And we hardly need another synonym for "clueless douchebag". I have to admire the trajectory of th…

Ya, no doubt. But perhaps he took it as an opportunity as he was stepping away from prominence to do something positive with it. A favorite example being Eisenhower's farewell addr…

Why Boeing? Why not Motorola? It would seem to come more naturally to Moto; I mean if they built jetliners there would have been no reason to invent the phrase "jet lag".

This seems like a myth to me. Radar? Rocket engines? Turing? Stealth bomber technology? Nuclear powered aircraft carriers? ICBMs? Stuff that was happening regardless of a war and s…