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In most places, restrictions on bars and nightclubs are a moral/religious issues driven by the elected representatives (and hence the electing public's) perception of what is "righ…

Do what other civilized nations do.. Control drug prices and rein in military spending.

Probably commenting too late but I find it a lot simpler to just compile from source. After you're initially setup (you need a go1.4 installation in your homedir), you just pull th…

Agree with much of the article. I personally find Apple iOS devices completely unusable because I have to constantly try to guess what kind of action or gesture will achieve what I…

Sure... but Tarsnap is basically Colin, serving a very niche clientele and unlikely to be worth a few billions. Almost every tool discussed in the article is targeting mass market …

Follow the money.. All $150 billion of it (1) The reason you see a lot of opinion pieces against ad blocking in mainstream press and blogs is because their main income stream comes…

Ah ok!

Wouldn't it be simpler to just go all the way towards direct election than take a halfway step towards direct elections such as this?

Well you have to remember that the Swiss have both better income sources (assisting the world's wealthy & many corporations evade/optimize taxes for instance) and don't have milita…

Thanks - haven't seen UML before & will take it out for a spin. In your experience does it have a big learning curve?

Thanks! it does looks interesting as I've tried using Prezi for this sort of stuff before but tripped on its "presentation focused" features whereas this seems more flexible

Background: I primarily code as a hobbyist (with some open-source contributions - I've been coding for over twenty years ) and so haven't really come across any structured tools th…

I run Ubuntu Trusty with kernal 3.19 on HP Chromebook 14 4GBRAM on which I upgraded the SSD to 64GB as my personal dev machine.I mostly work with Go, JS which work very well & Andr…

Well i live in India and while I can't comment on "starting a business" etc, I must say that over past few years i have found IT enabled services (both government and private) refr…