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Well, in a post-truth apartheid, separating kids from their parents in concentration camps is A-okay and discrimination isn't discrimination even when it's obvious. Red means go an…

I know a retired couple, my grandparents' best friends, who were both high school teachers. They traveled every year and somehow managed to keep from burning out. If teachers had t…

This is very an ignorant, biased and misleading article. 1) Not every educator is a teacher. Teachers are paid the most and have the best organized labor representation, while subs…

"Democratic" is a duplicitous, ambiguous word: - to the people, it means a government that is less corrupt and more accountable to do the people's work; a semi-meritocracy. - in di…

Not to be confused with SugarCRM, which also goes by Sugar sometimes.

Why not TFAT or TexFAT?

FAQ: 1. Saving money then and now. It's paid for itself every year, even with maintenance. In general, I'd rather be considerably poorer than a stressed, servile servant to the 1%.…

This jives with what I've seen from blancolirio, MentourPilot and others sources. The pilots should've had memory items to disable automation control of trim for the duration of th…

AMA: I've lived in cars and now a VW for almost a decade. (Disclaimer: The nick is an ironic attempt at humor, not trolling.)

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Ahhh... I remember LOGO on Apple ][e's Apple donated to the elementary school I attended. Random Q: Why was that light on Apple's keyboard invariably uncomfortably hot?

More-so than the compiler, it depends on the design goals that are implemented in width and speed of the processor's registers, SIMD vector and conventional integer units. For x86,…

Props to David Yager for standing up to the kind of people (sheltered kidults, really) Thunderf00t calls out for crybullying. The world needs more debate and engagement of controve…

Parm is definitely better than cheddar in the resilience department, but I guess pepper jack might work. ;)

0. Generously use black_box 1. a large sample size 2. a single thread 3. high-precision monotonic timestamps on an unloaded system 4. mean/std dev from more than several runs

In general, in a multi-core/massively-concurrent&&parallel world, copying small, immutable data-structures is preferred. The big reason is cache hits and minimizing contention for …

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It seems like every year, there's something new and arbitrary that entitled people find to discriminate against a manufactured out-group about.

Get Signal: works on desktop (Mac/Win), tablet and mobile (Apple/Android), and it's actually secure, easy-to-use and can takeover text messaging on Android. Green bubble "problem" …

There's many techniques and practices of creating trust and more resilient election processes: 0. international independent observers following the entire chains-of-custody of vote…

Life is short. You can't take money with you. Do what you want to be doing now, not later. Scrimp and live cheaply > hating a stressful life of luxury/debt/peonage/agony.

The whole notion of IQ seems like a mostly masterful plan to project and instill insecurity in as many future adults as possible: 0. Make the "dumb"/ADD/poor kids feel inferior. Pa…

In the early 80's, my parents pulled me out of California's public schools when the state/county ditched phonics for some unproven nonsense, to a private school that was founded on…