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Absolutely, which is why breaking up the country geographically wouldn't work. And breaking up the country based on population density seems like a logistical nightmare.

We may be better off as separate countries, but the divide isn't red state vs. blue state. It's urban vs. rural. I'm in Atlanta, and most of us here wouldn't be happy at all living…

One of my web sites is run by a "bundle exec rails s" in a tmux window on an EC2 instance. New deploy? Run "git pull" (and maybe "rake db:migrate") in tmux pane and restart the "ra…

I still haven't seen a great reason to go NoSQL over, say, Postgres. I'll think about a good application but then realize that it'll be a PITA to do something slightly different th…

For #1, the master password gets entered in when you need to decrypt the password file, right? Doesn't that mean that anyone who can read the input stream from your keyboard can de…

I question whether this is really more useful. You'd have to show that advertisers noticed that data was fake, and that they cared, and that they cared enough to pull FB advertisin…

It looks like it doesn't have to read data from a static gist file. It can read from any JSON source, and you can just have the formatting data in the gist.

But I feel like you're blaming the victims. It was actually people like Rupert Murdoch who set up the whole "our culture is being destroyed by PC run amok" thing, and they did it t…

First, Roy Moore lost. It wasn't a resounding loss, but he did lose. Second, acting like an entire region as a monoculture is stupid and unproductive. We're all very, very differen…

Why are you associating those douchebags with the south? Newt I get, but aren't the rest of them in NYC? The real divide in this country is rural vs. urban. Cities in the south are…

How so? Stating your thoughts with conviction ends any hope of a reasonable discussion? Maybe if you're afraid of confrontation. For me it's an invitation to debate.

We're really not.

So here's a nice idea I had that I don't have time to implement: A specialized debate forum. Basically, two people decide to debate on an issue. They are the featured debaters. The…

People should be aware that this does not mean you shouldn't meditate. At least give it a shot. The risk/reward ratio is so heavily skewed toward reward (what are the risks, really…

I'm one of those possibly-rare people who considers the ebook experience superior to the physical book. No bookmarks necessary, can read on Kindle while home and continue reading o…

https://lifehacker.com/use-louie-cks-70-rule-to-avoid-decisi...

As long as neverssl.com still exists so I have some way to pop up the login page from captive wifi portals, I'm fine with everyone else going SSL. However, I basically agree that i…

Have you heard the Shatner cover of this song? It's pretty great.

Atlanta used to be "Atlantan" but now the preferred nomenclature is "ATLien". Thanks, Outkast!

There are. This is an uppercase 7: & and this is an uppercase 8: *.

This kills the joke.

You don't hear about all the times that the FDA actually stopped tainted food products from reaching the market.

I oh-so-vigorously disagree. Building web sites is the fastest way to get a return on your learning investment. Plus there's tons of mature tech out there to learn, and plenty of e…

Man, I don't get why everyone's saying that we're insignificant because of this photo. As far as we know, we're the most exciting thing going on in this corner of the universe. The…

"What kind is it? I don't want to deprive you of a beer if I won't enjoy it." There, done.