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In the first few weeks of working from home, my depression definitely got significantly worse. I'm pretty sure that, perversely, I enjoy my job because of the high levels of stress…

I like Crunchbang for political, not technical reasons. It doesn't matter to me if every package is vanilla Debian. Crunchbang provides an opinionated set of defaults for what a co…

When I read the 'science of man' and/or 'natural rights' accounts of political society and morality, I am struck my how astute Kant's critique was--that what we call conventional m…

> There are always exceptions, but you will have to be exceptional in their eyes. This is spot-on. People take certain prejudices to their modelling high school dropouts. These are…

> here in the UK, the very same PM has trebled the costs of going to university for English and Welsh students, pricing many out As far as I was aware, under the new scheme, gradua…

> Which historical state of nature does it refer to? Hobbes' state of nature is probably an ahistorical argument. That all men used to live under a state of nature is not necessary…

I think you might need to put your sarcasm detectors into British mode. Questions around outsourcing, the standard of secondary education, and how education meets the needs of indu…