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Yes. I think the opinion NYT is programming into their readers is that normal people owning the means of private transportation is bad. The particular facts or coherence of the arg…

There is a significant effort put in by the FBI and others to arrest people who do that.

I’m suspicious that most of the value in these systems comes from a small fraction of the effort and many technology jobs boil down to knowing you’re a huge cost center and putting…

Some of those who checked out never re-entered the productive economy. There seems to be a change in morale and motivation as well. The young professionals are paid way beyond thei…

To your point, you should probably not do anything the NSA tells you to do. A spy agency’s endorsement of Rust is not to its credit.

I think credit deserves some blame. Schools charge the maximum they expect students to be able to pay, and when students have significant leverage through the bank, those costs ris…

I have to applaud the subtle elegance of the sarcasm here

> the Python and Linux programming languages are all open-source. Yikes

I don’t think private investors can rake in fat subsidies off of hydropower.

Some of the larger ones are Armin Ronacher’s own projects…

I wouldn’t be shocked if it were actually just be a reboot of the same Google service proxied through Mozilla to recapture some lost market share.

Every time I get cajoled into visiting my wife’s family out there my experience is just a long stream of internal “how do you live like this?” moments. >Why is there a carcinogen w…

Monolithic Dome has been doing this for years. Precast concrete vaults are made very efficiently and can be used for this purpose with much better quality control. Neither are popu…

Just have your mates bring you a few gallons of wind turbine.

Get out of my mind, Kwisatz Haderach

Employers will just create superfluous titles so they don’t have to price-match. My own opinion is that wages are completely unfair and never can be. Some people produce value seve…

I like how a city engineer at little rock put it to me one time. “Having a license does not mean you have all the answers, but you are kind of responsible for them.“

If thou workest at that which is before thee... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word…

This can only be said bluntly: carbon trade schemes are and always have been about creating trillion-dollar money laundering opportunities. The problem is unspecified. Results are …

Comically negative? It’s hardly negative enough. I’d change the link title to “Miserable, childless misanthrope and establishment propagandist chides you for concerns over your chi…

I don’t see any concerns not addressed by markets. If iron becomes expensive to extract, it becomes expensive to buy, and people use it carefully. At one point unused cabins were b…