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The other side of this story: https://web.archive.org/web/20030202084858/http://www.weirdr... I'm sure some hear will object to the tone of the article I am linking to, but if you …

" That in combination with unrestricted submarine warfare really did mean German conduct in the war was far crueler then the Allies. " Both Britain and Germany tried to prevent the…

this isn’t a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence. I think some "both-sides-ism" is in order here. From the perspective of the right, the left is also…

Many endorsers have already committed to implementing changes consistent with the report recommendations – from revised essay questions and marketing materials, to the development …

" Every morning, we all wake up to a world that isn’t optimized. Reading the news, commuting to work, ordering coffee, planning a vacation; far too few of these experiences were op…

An account shares access to the same file system, but can be restricted as to which files and directory it can see and execute. An account in a chroot jail gets its own view of the…

I don't like how politics becomes warfare, but the phenomena exists, and we need a name for the people who engage in this kind of activism. I don't think that all leftist activists…

The thing is, there is no big yellow line between aggressive politics and warfare. If someone gets me fired from my job, that is actually worse for me than if I get punched in the …

What word would you use for a left-wing activist who aggressively wants to name and shame, or purge, or get fired, or get banned, any person on the right who crosses a certain line…

There are a few underlying issues here. There is a lot of denial about the nature of the intellectual bell curve. The majority of people are not that smart and cannot make thoughtf…

It took a lot of active mismanagement and folly to keep Pipes from living up to its promise. I would love to read a blog post about how exactly it was mismanaged. It would be great…

Actually, if you were really worried about epidemics, it would be better to fragment the world further. Make travel much harder and rarer. From an existential point of view, mass a…

There are really two issues: the knowledge acquisition and the money. I have made a good living in software for nearly a decade, without having a computer science degree. Being sel…