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What if it wasn't transactional and people were just given what they needed?

What if some of what was given away to others was the food and provisions that families need?

> It’s a waste of everyone’s time and money. Isn't incarcerating a person who's not a danger to others and who's crime had no harmful outcomes a waste of everyone's time and money?…

I'm a fan of Marx's idea that value is created by labor and the free gifts of nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

Many cities had bulk mail pneumatic systems from the late 1800s into the post-WWI era, but Paris had a specific class of mail which was like a cross between a courier and a telegra…

> Sweden didn't pull any lever at all Your analysis of their passivity does not acknowledge the assumptions underlying an individualist strategy. The lever Sweden pulled was permit…

> what did he do effectively? Cover up his involvement in Iran-Contra.

Many games go until a win condition is reached without eliminating other players in the meantime.

I picked up a TinyFPGA BX to make a VU-meter with strips of neopixels for a Halloween project (keystep+volca keytar with lots of reactive lights). You can do this with microcontrol…

Awesome vco build! Have you read the MAKE book about building the Noise Toaster? It's great! I ran into my own discouraging brick wall when trying to figure out how to fabricate me…

The Dollop (comedy/history podcast) did an entertaining episode about these psychopaths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38R-OOVfz7A

This is what I've started with, too. Make: Electronics, Make: More Electronics, and the 3-volume Encyclopedia of electronic components by Charles Platt are really great. The 8-Bit …

The screen was on, just not private due to tempest snooping. Private strings were output using Morse flashes from HD activity LED. :)

"shibboleet" https://xkcd.com/806/

It's possible to point out that a tax is regressive without being snarky.

In DS9/Voyager, the shuttlecraft have talking computers. On occasion, they use comm badges to execute remote commands like having the computer use the shuttle's short range transpo…