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I actually thought of this because of a line in The West Wing where the President is making a point about representation, then went off on a googling exploration to understand a bi…

Good; I was worried I'd stumbled into some some paleo-esque "only drink from puddles at dawn and dusk to maximize your gut flora development" nonsense.

> Don’t drink more than 2 drinks in a day Just to clarify, because this one tripped me up: you specifically mean alcohol, right?

Listen, if I had to pull the Flying Kipper up a hill with inferior non-Welsh coal, I'd be sad too.

Interesting - having read the book several times I don't get the reference to the dinner scene; will have to look it up. The parts which bothered me were the Zendaya slow-mo flash-…

I should really have said "elites, including those in antagonistic countries like Russia". My main point was more about the elites than where they are from.

Yes!

I'm the OP - and it's more complicated than that. Foreign powers fermented the discord in American society (which was already there for sure, but could have been much less toxic wi…

Do you have a promising example of where normal people were shareholders and managed to push through a decision which was against the interests of the board? Sounds from your comme…

Someone has to sit at the top of the tree, making decisions whose impact has to be accepted by the people below. Government is far (far!) from perfect, but at least it aspires in t…

I think "We bring tech jobs and tax revenue, which we will take elsewhere if you're not more compliant" is hard to label as anything other than a threat - particularly in the conte…

Once I get a vote on board membership for every company operating in my country, I will happily participate in that discussion.

Do you believe the appeal of Trump to disaffected Americans would be enough to win him the election, if big business (Koch et al) turned against the Republican party? Genuine quest…

We need to go beyond stopping mergers. Any company which sees itself as large or powerful enough to make unveiled threats against a national economy needs to be broken up. For ultr…

> We live in a democracy or not? Not really, no. Setting aside pedantry about the US being a republic and not a pure democracy, the fact is that wealthy elites decide election outc…

> Because I hate having people behind me Anyone who has read Dune should feel this way - leaving your back to the room/door is how the Harkonnens get you!

Seems like we live inside a self-cleaning oven. I only read the abstract and conclusions so maybe this is covered in the paper - but based on some reasonable estimates of the damag…

Paraphrasing: "In this paper, we reiterate previous assertions about how utterly boned we are as a species in the event that a nearby star has gone supernova in the last few hundre…

> Even if you didn't "consent to [the original author's] ToS," you are still going to be bound to it via the redistributors license. In the context of the GPL, are there real examp…

FYI, this crashed my browser with extreme prejudice; I can't remember one other time when I've had to force-stop the application. (Firefox on Android)

Mid afternoon meetings are terrible for me; I never feel like I can really settle into a difficult task unless I know that I have the option to make it the last thing I'm doing tha…

There was no "free movement" beforehand either; we weren't part of Schengen.

Better than all the restagons.

EFA is not InfiniBand. It has similar goals (low latency via kernel bypass), but is implemented using AWS Nitro NICs and regular Ethernet networking. Other providers (Azure and Ora…

> people who hold this belief fail to realize that “I don’t want to work.” ACTUALLY means “I want others to work so I don’t have to.” No, it means "I am working to generate more we…