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Notably a core plot device in the French Home Alone style film Deadly Games (aka Dial Code Santa). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Games_(film)

one correction: neoclassical economics, not neoliberal economics

> He fundamentally does not understand how markets work. I am a software engineer. I can assure you that the Harvard and Yale educated professor that's written textbooks on the sub…

> My question: an oft repeated refrain, when Marx is touted as a reasonable alternative, is that any time anyone tried his ideas out, it was a total disaster (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot,…

I'd second the other response's recommendation of Richard Wolff's work. He's a marxist and democratic socialist, so read his work understanding his perspective in relation to your …

Claiming that something is right because it exists as it is under the current system without further justification is equally, if not more short sighted. It's where "plainspeaking"…

What would be the benefit over electron?

There's also option 4: - Increase worker pay and benefits

That sounds similar to the incremental lambda calculus described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0658 There's an implementation for DOM updates in Purescript ( https://bl…

The only news here is that Elizabeth Warren voiced support for such policies. There have been very reasonable arguments for breaking up Amazon and Google on anticompetitive grounds…

Almost, that will set the foundation for fully using the DOM APIs. The host bindings proposal mentioned at the end of the article should close the gap.

There is nothing fake about the news coverage that CNN provides. It cannot be honestly or rationally equated with the fake news phenomenon that we saw on Facebook during the electi…

Cutting out sugar to the level described in the article and expecting a long list of health benefits is just as extreme as diets from the low fat craze were 20-30 years ago. It ama…