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I don't know if bittorrent has improved - but 20 years ago I had a personal issue with it. At that time our son was using it for games. He goes away to college and came home for th…

Kodak was well aware of what was going to happen. Company culture killed digital photography. I was at Apple when we worked with engineers from Kodak who were working to change var…

> I feel like these articles are written for and describe younger people. I think the opposite is true. I first read Jane Austin as a teenager. I had no concept of the economic env…

FMLA only covers companies with 50 or more employees. A friend was fired in the US when she told her boss she was pregnant and discovered this limitation. Her previous work experie…

That looks like a compelling argument.

Although Babel was removed during the final vote count, here is what the interim vote count looked like. It looks like it would not even be on the short list. https://cdn.vox-cdn.c…

I just looked at the votes - and Babel would not have won in any case. It was ranked #7 when it was disqualified. Netflix's Sandman was also disqualified. On Bluesky Neil Gaiman sa…

This article answers one of the questions I had about this year's Hugo awards. R. F. Kuang's Babel was on many other lists of top book of the year. I was surprised that it did not …

California provides awesome homeschool support. A lot depends on where you live. In California the student enrolls in a home school program through a local public school. You are a…

I love the change of subject. ;-)

You have to put Tocqueville in the context of his era. Europe was still in the era of monarchies. In fact, even though France had just beheaded their monarchs they tried to recreat…

Here is a 2003 documentary on the same subject. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/rosalind-franklin-lega... My take away was that Rosalind Franklin did support the Watson Crick…

The EN email note is somewhat kludgy. It was better before the last major upgrade. Before the last upgrade it was seamless to other EN notes. I suspect but don't know what broke. B…

By coincidence I am moving off of Evernote right now. I broke down everything I used Evernote for right now to plan the roll off. I largely use EN for the GTD system. The first GTD…

My experience gave me tenacity and resilience. My experience was not as bad as some others on this list. I believe that is because girls are psychological bullies, and boys are phy…

In tech - today's leaders will not be tomorrow's leaders. The tech graveyard is full of former high fliers. How about the early days of Covid when Zoom came out of nowhere to domin…

I agree with your father that batch processing (cards) is a drag. I was in school and working in the computer lab when we switched from batch processing (cards) to a time shared sy…

I also would not go exactly where the author goes, or do what the author does, but I appreciate the stimulation of being taken out of the pre-packaged presentation and into reality…

If new things to be expert in proliferate faster than you can become an expert then life-span extension will not work. You would need to duplicate yourself each time there is a new…

Engineers continually discount the importance of usability. The easy applications to convert to open source are those that the developer of the application is the user of the appli…

I don't think the relation between slavery and industrialization is as simple as you think. Industrial cotton mills and the invention of the cotton gin produced more slavery in the…

If you like this, then you will love this 1913 Boy Mechanic series. The Boy Mechanic Volume I: 700 Things For Boys To Do https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12655 The Boy Mechanic, Bo…

I found this list of companies affiliated with the Moonies (many defunct). https://culteducation.com/unif121.html Here is an interesting quote by someone who ran two of these busin…

Moonies used to be a big deal at college campuses in California. When my husband and I went to Berkeley in the 1970s, the Moonies were everywhere. They did many questionable things…