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I have missed Matt's columns since he went on parental leave. Does anyone have recommendations for anything similar to scratch that itch?

> 2008 was bad because the collective banks of the US realized trillions in mortgages were money on the books that wasn't real and was never going to be real An even larger amount …

Not a hostile question, I'm genuinely trying to understand this: How is liquidity provided by, for example, someone interjecting themselves into a trade that was already going to h…

High rents and debts are a massive drain on the economy. Less disposable income means less to spend on consumer goods and services, which hits real businesses hard, and leads to fe…

> You know what Chicago and Mexico have in common? Failed liberal policies. Agreed. It's time to get Tough On Crime, and declare a War On Drugs. Shame no one's thought of it before…

I'm not overly concerned with hurting a politician's feelings. I am bemused at the idea that someone can observe the last few decades of the capture of the government and major pol…

> Another way to think about it is that if people were actually straight up buying votes on a regular basis the prices would likely be much higher And as I said earlier, the campai…

Sorry, but it is that simple. We live in a second gilded age with near total regulatory and legislative capture and trying to soft pedal it by using euphemisms like 'strong network…

I'm sure it's just coincidental that senators and their family/friends frequently get lucrative positions on the boards of various companies, investment sweeteners, and actual posi…

GP is not the one being disingenuous.

Could be wrong, but I think India and China rail is government run.

Re: documenting code, I've gotten a lot of conflicting advice over the years, with some people insisting code should be documenting, and others insisting on docstrings.

The 'pressure to undergo abortions in case of fetal abnormalities' sounds the only potentially troubling part of that, but I don't exactly get what's 'authoritarian' about insistin…

Been witnessing this a lot in my city. Developers talking a big game about deregulation and additional supply being the only way to drive prices down, then building only "luxury" c…

Perhaps you could acknowledge what I've actually written instead of sidestepping around it?

I thought the summary was pretty good. The objections you're presenting here are nitpicky, the NYT article is just one of the links provided and the thrust of the article that ideo…

I'm not really sure what to say. I thought I was pretty clear in my previous post?

Not sure that contradicts what I said? For example, Richard Nixon was a social conservative that ran on a backlash against socially progressive causes, but was still a left wing pr…

I think it's pretty fair to say that the leadership of both major parties, elites in and outside the government, and the military/intelligence services are right wing, and have bee…

> It only is if you think someone who has ever set foot on Iran is an ethnic Irani. We're both adults here and I assume we both can realize that splitting these hairs doesn't make …

Assuming that for some reason I should take your word over his, banning for "having logged on in Iran at some point" is, effectively, banning for ethnicity.

Yeah imagine bitching because you lost a primary communication tool and a bunch of your saved data because of your ethnicity.

What way of structuring frontend prior to the react/redux 'fad' do you think was superior?