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I'd like to see the department of education put out a list of skills that are needed and for what purpose, or end goal. There needs to be some grand vision, perhaps to unify the co…

So do those 8 machines and the code on it represent the system before or after the Wamu merger, or something in between? I've heard many of these banks such as Citigroup have somet…

Do articles like this always emerge at a certain point in the boom bust cycle or tied to politics? Because it seems like right now the societal "noise" has peaked, and the 3/4 popu…

I don't think you can necessarily verbally articulate some goals. Someone like Dave Letterman may have had a vision as he watched baseball on a black and white TV, and then Johnny …

That quote or statement just shows that an individual living a "thug life" or succumbing to the tremendous peer pressure of youth basically is completely out of touch with the larg…

I thought it was pretty much determined that most employees just need a minimum amount of salary met, at which point they're fine. Kind of like maintaining a lawn or pool; don't ad…

I don't think it's fear so much as perceiving a particular conception of simple as bland. It would be a sign of failure to demote oneself to that, and secondly it does not jive wit…

Didn't GS have a losing second quarter? Perhaps this spin-off has more to do with how they perceive the next quarter is going too, and worries about business beyond that.

I've wondered this before but basically programming gives you this illusion that you can change the world, to the point of self assembling systems and new transportation and constr…

It's interesting to consider that entire societies have been built around these concepts. Usually when I see the Implicature thing that has been mentioned here, I often question wh…

In the pursuit of how stuff works.

Actually it's tied to the crisis at NASA, and to a larger extent the country. I don't know why people are afraid of confronting an issue like this. It's as if by ignoring it and sa…

Isn't it the case that legal issues are often a bottleneck to getting products to market? The traits listed for "taking the plunge" have been described elsewhere (I think by pg) as…

Can any savings be had by committing to a data center instead of paying the amazon hosting rates? I fear if they're at yet another crunch point, the next one will be too much. Gran…

At some point the light switch and the faucet controls will have to go. But we can't get to that stage if people have trouble with a side swipe or other twist and tweak. I agree th…

Society has a little bit of iTex in all its products.

I don't think anything is really ever lost so long as you support the system by remaining a US citizen. Losses in the financial markets and in business just get carried forward, at…

I don't think the article mentioned it but there was a point well after the Linux kernel reached prominence that it was understood the HURD was just a back burner project. GNU has …

How about a 4chan style message board in the sense that posts expire very rapidly, but also in that only single topics are allowed for certain time intervals. For example the site …

I was listening to a project proposal the other day and had a similar set of questions to guide the conversation. It was actually with a psychologist and I think that field and way…

Even the notion of being human is outdated. There were previous century views and now we're in a new era, with deeper understanding of what makes us up. We've gone from a blob of l…

Xerox is another example. I think these areas thrive on the surrounding incompetence and that you can't really have one without the other.

Need a monster version built out of top fuel dragster components.

There is no sense of competition anymore in this society, with yourself or others. Everyone just wants to blend into to previously considered notions of normality.