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Looks like there needs to be March for Engineers on Beaverton OR.

Wow. Just watched the BioRing campaign video. How could anyone think that was real?

I didn't see anything in the manual about streams. If they do, I'm sure they'll be fine as long as you don't cross them.

I'm surprised at how many people are responding negatively to software that improves user experience. Suppose we had started out with the command UI that gitless has and someone ca…

They are not paying $250k per employee. You have to factor in payroll taxes, paying accountants to keep books and CPAs to do taxes, benefits, and a multitude of other regulation-im…

It's amazing how many people didn't actually read all 4 parts of the article. His argument has nothing to do with caching or prefetching, etc. First, it's about random access. You …

How would increased taxes and mandatory benefits reduce the cost of employees? Increased employee costs make an employer less likely to take risks and produce pressure to hire less…

This is why there needs to be less taxes and mandatory benefits. Counter-intuitively, these things work together to reduce the number of jobs and reduce worker flexibility and happ…

The solution to the problem is not preventing people from communicating securely.

Programming is done in code for the same reason mathematics is done in notation, for specificity. Doing programming in plain English would be just as cumbersome as doing math in pl…

I don't buy it. Another study showed a net loss: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140416/04183626928/paten... It's humorous that they trot out the definition of innovation: "mak…

If only people learned history. Look at the comprehensive list of hyperinflations in modern history. Every single one happened under leftist rule of the country [1]. Look at Venezu…

After all human history where jocks ruled the earth, they're now upset that nerds are becoming important?

In Japanese, the word for filler is "Naruto".

The biggest problem is intellectual property. Copyright lasts life + 70 years and patents last 20 years. That's a long time to have a legal monopoly on something, and is partly why…

Feminists: "Men are working too hard and making money. Jerks!" encounters man who doesn't work hard and make money "You make less money than me? Ew. Get away you loser! Where's all…

Someone said something that I disagree with! The horror! The outrage! It should be illegal! That's one of the biggest problems with society today. People need to learn to grow up.

voluntary exchange is not the problem with society. involuntary exchange on the other hand...

Git is to GitHub as JavaScript is to Java. Though their names are similar they are very different things.

This is a terrible idea. Something similar to it has been tried dozens of time in the past with disastrous results. http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/working...

Hong Kong has become a Special Administrative Region of China and has it's own justice, education, and political system (mostly). I think it would be a great idea to have several o…

One of the best ways to increase prosperity for everyone is to make living more efficient/affordable. Look at the average American budget from 2013[0]. The top of the list is housi…

I've been a huge Apple fan, but they've been constantly pushing me away with both their hardware and software. Now that we have so many pixels to push, graphics acceleration has be…

If they had given you a bigger raise they would be creating income inequality /sarc

I found his note at the end most interesting and mirrors my observations since. Governmental standards are making our children math-illiterate. There should be a myriad of differen…