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npr is always doing fun drives...they are annoying, but the content used to be worth a donation. they are still around. don't see why it wouldn't work for others. places like HBO a…

The main reasons I would like to see a tech unions and things I would want out of it: 1. assessment training and rank. my sister is in a union and has been train and qualified for …

Looking at extinction and new niches created like our happy little stickle back fish sees an advantage. The stickle back fish contains the genes of past versions fresh water adapte…

the left is just better at producing propaganda. do not forget most of our universities have become extreme left and the papers they write reflect this. It is not an accident the w…

Seem to remember insurance sets pricing somehow not the doc/hospital? One of the reasons they don't have an answer to that question is it depends on what your insurance carrier neg…

Another change, but one much harder to manage is that many of the products people buy today have no value left after 2-4 years and some both have no value after 2-4 years and do th…

PG&E is much worse than a private company. It is the weird result of heavy government regulation on the wrong most ant-competitive ways + lots of lobbying. PG&E is not subject to a…

I would think it is a bit different. PG&E is not government and doesn't collect taxes. Those lines originally may have been public property, but I do not know if they still are? I …

I do not think any of this is an internet age issue. Looking back the tobacco industry was able to suppress research about smoking for a couple decades back when journalism was mor…

Not entirely and I know Mozilla is in the process of doing this now. They could take some small portion of the original bit of the browser they are rewriting and put something tech…

I wonder about analysis tools for c/c++. I know those tools have come a long way. Is the problem the decades of time where those tools were proprietary or expensive or free/open an…

On the upside I was pretty sure this was going to be a Rust to the rescue opinion piece before I clicked on it. On the downside this is a Rust to the rescue opinion piece though it…

I think our public education system is also to blame. We push kids down academic paths too often and many of those paths do not lead to professions that can sustain 45-80k debt aft…

Not sure I entirely get what the problem is. I am happy with my distributions NOT including stuff I don't want. I develop on Linux and maintain servers. I do not want anything unne…

I like the idea, but where we run into trouble is when the pm comes downstairs and says it looks wrong on his computer. He uses chrome. He rejects the story. Arguments about correc…

as a side note i remember reading something about some patent trolls using money from suits to actually drive development of promising patents. i do not remember if this was optimi…