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Shogun's a milestone in my reading history - it's so extraordinarily engrossing. It deflated me more than any other book as I turned each of the final, waning pages because I didn'…

Sure, and I'm positive you knew which three I meant when I said it: the three that together probably comprise 4 nines of overall desktop use, and which are compared all over this t…

I use all 3 OSes ~daily and have nits w/ all of them. This one's minor even as it stands, but if I can make it "click" - at least for MacOS-specific workflows - I'd love to. Each O…

Same here, mostly. My laptop since 2015 has been a MBP, so I've had plenty of MacOS experience, but day to day has always been 90/10 Windows. Now that I have the M1 I'm trying to u…

To your third point, is this a setting somewhere? I tested before I posted w/ 4 Brave windows, but they stay in the same order. Makes sense, since cmd+~ immediately switches on key…

I don't love it (yet). It's probably a combo of my Windows background, my ignorance of MacOS tricks, and actual limitations/flaws. * Cmd+~ from a fullscreen window does nothing, an…

It seems clear that a dev team could whip up a product that tested well (using folks in office, family members, friends, etc.); was trained with datasets that - for whatever reason…

Thanks for the links - that's interesting to consider when weighing the tradeoffs of an FDA-less country. Of course, the FDA is only one part of the story, and conceding a need for…

This perception of the US as having a free-market economy, particularly in the area of healthcare, is curiously persistent. Vast sums of money are spent lobbying to distort the mar…

I think his point about podcasts and other audio is on the money, but it undercuts his argument for VR: > They have this Bluetooth thing in their ear, and they’ve got a hat, and th…

Agreed there's some hyperbole as to the current state of things, but the ability for new entrants to pressure the old guard in an industry and in some cases put them out of busines…

There's obviously no objective truth to whether pronouns apply retroactively; it's just social convention. Clearly, it's polite to respect someone's wishes when talking to or about…

I disagree with both GP and the immigration laws affecting these people, but the term "illegals" to describe them strikes me as an innocuous shorthand for "people of illegal immigr…

This can only be accurate for people who want literally $0 to be taken for taxes, in any form, by any level of government... and yet still expect services to be rendered. I don't k…

The libertarian view is that pretty much everything is fine as long as everyone involved is participating willingly. Consider the ramifications: with voluntarism as nearly the only…

I won't say what you should or shouldn't do, but I can give you a few reasons to care: First, to clarify, it's not innguest's moral problem; it's a quandary at the intersection of …

"The worst part is the thesis of [...] media; that while you do everything right, some nebulous [...] agenda is taking away everything that you hold dear, and are entitled to as a …

The question that arises for me is how the changes affected the performance of the department, however that's measured (e.g. entrepreneurs, investment, placement, grants, average g…

I can see it. I've never talked to the Mormons (although I see them biking in pairs near my office most days), but I've had a number of pleasantly spirited debates with some Jehova…

The government delivers citizens into the hands of private management all the time: required insurance policies, training programs, licensure, etc. Mandating that every obligatory …

Those incentives are often there when a private company and the government make a deal. It's certainly not a problem with for-profit entities in general, though: Apple and Ford and…

Agreed that that's the basic idea behind government-run anything -- its ostensible adherence to the benefit of society. But that's the naivete I was referring to: in the end there …

That's fair, and unquestionably a conflict of interest. However, it's not an irrevocable quality of a prison run by a private company (and therefore evil "by definition"). OTOH, pu…

By definition? That requires some justification. The justice system still sets the parameters and manages the procedures by which sentences are handed down. If a court determines y…

Most gun stats blithely show aggregate rates of gun ownership and gun-related homicides, and the public reacts in fear; who wants to live in a country like that? But criminal-on-cr…