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For humans, elephants are write-only memory.

You don't need to undo the abstraction, just opt out: Fork the shared artifact and modify or rewrite the copy (prune useless parts) as you need.

People often forget "copy-on-write". Coupling doesn't have to be permanent. If refactor to create a sahred component, and then you want to modify a shared component to help one cli…

The sun is radioactive. Sunlight is not radioactive, it's radiation.

How would you feel if your body temperature increased 3%? Barely visible in a 0-based graph.

0 is only relevant for linear utility/impact functions The effect of an isotope isn't necessarily linear in its magnitude from 0. The baseline should be something that matters, lik…

That doesn't help people who are getting paid less for doing useful work with the skills they already have.

Businesses don't have to sell stock. They can finance via debt, and many do. Annual reporting has nothing to do with how people response to the value of a company.

Tyranny of minority isn't better than tyranny of the majority.

housing, food, clothing, and energy must be paid for before the rest of income is invested. 20% annual growth of 0 is 0.

If you don't have high wages you can't buy stock.

The average American has no particular reason to stick with a "savings account". They could buy equities and ETFs that are as simple as savings accounts.

To be charitable, the Fed runs the money supply, but they don't control who gets the money. It's the job of Congress to regulate corporations and unions and minimum-wage and all th…

Please don't toss around stereotyping caricatures.

I will as soon as I get some wages for my work, but unfortunately that's unlikely, per the OP article.

It's not even a relevant comparison. "Corporations" don't spend profits on luxuries for themselves. Their human owners do. Owners pay capital gains tax (which you can argue is too …

That's a start, but land is only a small fraction of capital.

Insurers are paid in premiums, not health outcomes. An insurance company is incentivized to help avoid costly claims, but if you are likely to make costly claims, and they can't dr…

"Connections - Episode 1: The Trigger Effect" https://www".dailymotion.com/video/x4e30ki The punchline is at 29minutes

I'll defer to the math professor on this one.

https://csunplugged.org is not exactly but might be nice.

Brains think brains are the best problem-solvers. Eyes see eyes as the most beautiful part of the body. Skin feels that skin is the best part to touch.

Obviously a place called Strange Loop is going to biased towards knitting and biased away from Haskell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_knitting https://stackoverflow.com/questi…

It's vanishingly unlikely that a bug would affect all their drives (across all recent models, and only after burn-in) simultaneously, unless the drives are managed by a remote serv…

What happens when an "anonymous hacker" finds a way to adjust the trajectory of a satellite, and someone needs to rapid response dispose of the rerouted satellite safely?