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> The submarine's captain, Robert Dunn, feels they have been largely written out of the Libyan campaign and is keen his crew get their due. Interesting, how did that turn out for L…

Seeing a few canned tuna comments here. I love it as much as the next guy but PSA: it has more mercury than you would imagine -- in the range of ~60mcg per tin in some cases. Nobod…

Yeah, I doubt it's a viable long term strategy, but I think they're terrified of the crash being on their watch.

The Canadian government knows what they're doing. They're more afraid of a crash than they want to rein in prices.

Modern western society has not built the social capital necessary to cope with its material complexity. It's built on an ethic of grifting, in the large or in the small. See the pa…

Sue me, I have whatever concept of efficiency that means that people eating and having housing and having a habitable environment is more important than NFT's or space tourism or c…

Heck, even private businesses often do a kind of ad-hoc rationing for essential goods when there's a rush on them, because they know that the kind of arbitrage free-for-all describ…

The argument starts that people who need gas more are going to buy it in the shortage (suggesting efficient distribution), and then acknowledges that it's just as likely wealthier …

Rails is unquestionably better now than when it was new and cool. Before, the ecosystem and core framework were evolving at a rapid pace, leading to some suboptimal patterns and so…

I have to wonder what other unintended side effects of modern tech/modes of behaviour we'll find.

Same story pretty much everywhere -- wealthy property owners can't be bothered to allow the minimum amount of development that would let the workers they depend on find decent hous…

A valuable perspective that alludes to a troubling phenomenon: discourses around disability often cater to the comfort of the abled. Abled people don't want to accept that disabled…

Why should it take 20 years to own a home?

the OS landscape is pretty grim in 2021 in general: - Some Linux distros are getting pretty usable, but there are also still plenty of rough edges and limited support for certain a…

The first case linked above was in a gym where patrons were supposed to be masked and two meters apart, and the second case had a CDC investigation which would have mentioned that …

That's certainly the dominant narrative, but it flies in the face of superspreader events where it appears that one or a few people infected hundreds. Did they directly breathe on …

Early on in the pandemic, the Canadian IPAC (Infection Control and Prevention) establishment came down hard against theories of airborne COVID transmission, at first even going so …

The primary usecase (which happens to me fairly frequently in Javascript) is when you need to operate on a native or library data structure with some function other than its built-…

I would add that it's misleading to generalize the experience of tech workers to workers at large. We're in a weird and fortunate spot because we work as in a well capitalized indu…

> Most people work but most dont necessarily have to, at least as much as we do. People enter the "rat race" because it gives them something, not just a source of money but other a…

sure I do. as another comment pointed out, the trend roughly tracks the decoupling of wages from productivity in North America. seems as good of a reason for disillusionment as one…

Exactly. This article comes with the typical psychiatrist bias that depression is indication of some personal deficit (cognitive distortions or faulty brain chemistry) when in my p…