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Do you think that in the hypothetical absence of the formal education system, the vacuum would be filled by the collaboration of a likeminded community? Social communication among …

This makes a great case for community-based labs. There have been some startups doing this for mechanical engineering, at least. A big issue is the monopoly over labwork by the uni…

That we only need to abolish PhD programs is like shaving the foam off the top of a spoiled bear and thinking that fixes it. The whole premise of college has been rendered obsolete…

Oftentimes we read a comment of the kind "bad or good code can be written in any language or paradigm" in response to writings of the ills or virtues of said language or paradigm. …

Exactly the point in my strident post below, that now has a negative value unsurprisingly given the content of many of the replies here. Is it unfairly rude to challenge the ethics…

Wow; it's all about you: what you have to gain or lose if you leave or stay. Not a single mention of conscience about contributing to an enterprise that has and continues to do so …

A computer should still function when offline. A time will come when more people distrust the internet and return to using their computer and its apps disconnected from it, or at l…

TL;DR, literally, I didn't bother to read the whole thing. Time pressure will never go away. It only takes common sense to realize that those who want something, i.e. are paying fo…

The Guardian might have been good once, but I stopped reading after it became obvious that they now shill for the establishment, push irrelevant click-bait headlines, and beg for m…

or bandcamp, my preference so that artists get the highest compensation for their work

What is going on at Mozilla? It's getting harder to stay faithful to the organization supposedly representing the open web. They are acting more like the profit-first companies tha…

Nearly no one in software development, particularly VR, seems to care about the morality of supporting Facebook. Are we too mesmerized by their latest shiny toys, Quest 2, et. al.?…