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Texas is good at mythologizing its patently terrible origin stories. See the Alamo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forget_the_Alamo:_The_Rise_and...

This is just good marriage (and general relationship) advice.

Cars aren’t the only option in the solution space.

That’s a problem with your bank, not with the regulation. They decided how to implement aml, and it sounds like they’ve done a bad job and can’t deal with internal organizational b…

Milwaukee to Chicago please!

I was hoping this was going to be about this kind of industrial hammer. https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/exploring-one-of...

“I’m sorry” - Most managers I know when finding out I was promoted from IC to manager Obviously delivered tongue in cheek, but it’s a hard job and it’s not for everyone. I second e…

The entire list of contributors look like bots to me. The commit history is sketchy. This seems like a giant leap beyond nomic’s main project which itself seems… thin. The entire t…

The data other posters have responded to your post with show exactly the opposite. Policing in America and its potential negative outcomes are skewed toward black men. It’s undenia…

Are you responding to a different message entirely?

Going out into the desert and looking up to the stars and seeing satellites everywhere is a big change. As Are drones at every non-national monument Awe Inspiring Place.

Is it a problem that when the author writes “and there’s the war” I have no clue what they are talking about?

I wish it was this simple, but looking through the last month of “show hn” posts makes it clear that the tech community can’t be trusted either. There are countless examples of aut…

This is the scariest real life attempt to use the bullshit machine I’ve seen so far. Nothing like “subtly wrong” clinical notes to affect positive medical outcomes. And time presse…

The FFIEC would almost certainly stop such stupidity, though they’ll have to catch it on an audit first.

So first, you didn't call the comments "objectively wrong" you called them deranged. Deranged: 1) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. 2) disturbed or upset, …

In the course of these comments you've referred to me as deranged and laughable. I'm going to bow out and let you hold onto your opinions, it's clear you're not interested in a con…

Communal societal or economic structures don't preclude "highly stratified civilizations featuring warfare, state religion, slavery, and pyramid building." Centralized control is a…

Most of the population of North and Central America remained communal until colonial contact. there were plenty of examples of agricultural societies within that group, and they we…

That may have been true 20 or 25 years ago but the technology gap technologically between a “cheap” bike and the highest end bike you could buy was much much smaller than it is tod…

Authoritative and the intro is even poetic.

The author and the book pretty clearly lay out what they mean by conservatism and yes it's aligned with fiscal conservatism.

The key messages of strongtowns are unambiguous 1) fiscal conservatism and 2) small-scale self dependence. Small scale self dependence is a significant problem in the US (and many …

Yes. American infrastructure has explicitly been deployed time and time again as stimulus spending to shore up the American economy. Nothing in their argument is novel. What these …