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I can't say that I'm a great coder, but I learned from ZZT and Megazeux back in the early-mid 1990s. No idea if something like that would work today, though, and both ZZT and Megaz…

Experience is a good teacher. Dalrymple remarked on this in _Utopias Elsewhere_ -- how it sometimes seems that every society has to learn that Communism won't work the hard way.

> My observation about conservatives on this issue has been that they become defensive when they hear "conservatives have caused global warming with their capitalism, and the only …

> what we learned from the unrest that the U.S. faced during the Vietnam war era. That the counterculture and the Communists were actively trying to make us lose a war? The author …

Microsoft's sponsoring Mono now, and they've always been pretty benevolent towards game companies, especially with how seriously they take backwards compatibility. I wouldn't worry…

What I'm most surprised by is their straw-man alternative: "unalterable traits or unattainable pedigree," _in 2017_. "I say, Langley, HBR is pure bosh. They've no respect at all fo…

Speaking as a Catholic, I have no idea how people can break a treaty and think they're fighting for God. Isn't He traditionally called to witness that treaties will be kept sacrosa…

Heil Hitler! /s (Seriously, read Snyder's _Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning_ for how Hitler saw the US as a role model.)

Maybe in Wales? Modern England (and most of modern Scotland) is mostly Anglo-Saxon, not Romano-British.

I'd always heard "Europeans", not "European people"; if Google is just confused (and I wouldn't rule it out -- look up "Goofle Translate"), I think it's because "European people" i…

From the grandparent's post: > "The hottest part of the day usually starts at about the end of the prime solar hours."

More like how IBM held off Sun Microsystems.

> What does "backed by the full faith and credit of a stable entity" even mean? Why does it matter? I understand it to meant that the country in question will be a currency-recipie…

I'm not surprised that Westinghouse behaved idiotically; they've always struck me as the Ford of washing machines, and I can only imagine what they're like at utility scale... It s…

> The management competence and institutional knowledge needed to build these large, insanely expensive projects seems to have disappeared. And whose fault is that? Not the fault o…

> "2. Western civilization. 3. Winning." It sounds like he needs to make up his mind. The core of chivalry is willingness to lose, if winning would violate your principles; think o…

Someone had remarked that the SS is what you'd get if the Pentagon hired the Church of Happyology to create a new branch of the military. I thought this was hilariously on-point; b…

Absolutely true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

Uber (and presumably Lyft) does the same -- the theory being that they can destroy taxi businesses, then set their prices at anything less than a towncar service.

The failure mode of a big company is the same as that of a communist country, too: elite disconnect with real conditions, then stagnation, then bankruptcy, then horrible effects fo…

I hadn't heard of that before, but I'll keep it in mind for sure. I was going to say that the obvious solution is to not play -- to buy and hold based on fundamental value, and spe…

> The final solution to the underclass was thus implemented. If "final solution" refers to relocating people, what term will you use if they're deliberately killed?

"Lunch break" sounds like it's paid or semi-paid; it seems a bit deceptive here. It sounds from the article like the Spanish are putting in 8-hour days, but interrupting them in th…

"All fat with a tiny smidgen of protein" is an interesting way of describing egg yolks and olive oil. (Not saying that Helleman's is anything more than soybean oil and 3% egg solid…