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It's probably best to view government as simply the largest corporation, and a monopoly at that.

I'm sitting at the ER right now wondering what sort of ads I'll get. Truth is you can't count on government to restrict itself so you have to buy your own privacy.

I take it that scarcely anyone here has written software for video switchers, routers, DVEs, linear editors, audio mixers, glue products, master control systems, character generato…

I admit that the correlations appear pretty vague: https://asset.barrons.com/public/resources/images/ON-BS188_C...

""soft" real-time (e.g. games, or audio/video) " Hah. Who sez that audio and video products have 'soft' real time? Go on now.

"I'm more curious about the state of that yurt in 5, 10, 15 years." It's a good question and I've always wanted to see postmortems on alternative building methods generally. I supp…

I'm always in favor of homebuilt OS projects, I've worked on several in-house OSs and they seem to have good ideas salted around them. If it were me, I'd write an open source RTOS …

So who decides what the DJIA and S&P 500 stocks actually are? A random number generator?

lol. Good point. I would like to see everyone's list on what a 'skill' really means. It would make a good basis for a discussion. a quick edit: It's a question that really began gn…

Perhaps the general hope is that we can replace all wealth due to manufacturing, resource extraction, food production, with that produced via internet advertising.

Both? My guess is that the dividing line between 'Red' and 'Blue' is being renegotiated as we speak. The post-WWI political arguments, largely about economics, are being replaced b…

At least in the case of California, the web abounds with statistics showing net domestic outflow. My guess is that any population increase in CA is due to foreign nationals.

" indexing outperforms actively managed funds" Most index funds are actively managed.

"huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist" Perhaps they are trying to gauge the likely success of the car before some final production decisions are made. You d…

Trump's account is a beautiful example of how useless Twitter is. Typically it goes... Trump: CONGRATULATIONS ON FIREFIGHTERS FOR MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS…

"I remember seeing a program that claimed this is because soldiers today are trained to kill against their natural instinct. So traditionally only 20% of soldiers could actually ki…

The result is pretty simple. The intelligence agencies become a fourth branch of government and likely the dominant one. It would be interesting to better understand the dynamics b…

French was spoken by the educated classes in much of the Western world for some time, had a largish colonial empire. Holy Roman Empire (neither Roman or Holy or an Empire) had Germ…

I'm waiting for the 3270 version.

Hasn't there been a large increase in non-tenured faculty, teaching assistants, etc?

Is there some reason for all neutron stars to have the same physical make-up and internal behavior? or could they fall into types?

I would think that primaries would vastly favor incumbents, to a greater degree than a general.

Very cool, I'm impressed. This guy knows how to do all the stuff I don't know how to do and it actually works well.

Just to play grumpy old guy for a sec., I can't say that I've ever seen this in action. In my experience. . Line managers rarely make the leap, if anything they jump laterally or g…

I think that the EFI argument is something of a red herring, no one is suggesting a return to the Quadrajet. OTOH, EFI can be done as a modular (and replaceable) product rather tha…