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Fair question and I don't think there are easy answers to the problem. I think the actions you suggest tend to result in a market environment like Europe's where there are more reg…

I work for a mid-sized, publicly-traded tech company that has been inching towards profitability but the last couple quarterly earnings results have been disappointing (and rank-an…

Maybe get out more? I know _lots_ of people for whom this is true and who take multi-day road trips rather than deal with air travel. I routinely flew for business before 9/11 and …

Unfortunately, Benedict is conflating fundamentalism with literalism here. It's a common mistake (and "fundamentalist" has become essentially an epithet) although one that I am sur…

> We did fine for a century without any of that. Did we? I think there's an overly-romanticized view of late 19th and early 20th century immigration to the US. Go to Ellis Island a…

I commend you on your careful consideration of the costs and potential benefits of various college choices. I didn't think that far ahead when I was 18 and unfortunately for many h…

There's a huge difference between The Chosen and LToC -- while both may present a "gritty" and imaginative narrative including fictionalized accounts that are not canon, The Chosen…

How is disappearing someone in order to intimidate them into operating "on a short leash" anything other than plain evil?

> our Puritan values run deep The Puritans drank plenty. I suspect that many such misconceptions about them are derived from HL Mencken's (wildly inaccurate) quip that "Puritanism …

Yes, others can contribute, but significant feature development on large-scale OSS projects tends to be driven by developers paid to work on the project full-time and coordinated b…

From the announcement: "You should consider the initial code to be at an alpha stage — it is not complete, not thoroughly tested, and not suitable for production use. We are planni…

I think it's helpful to point out that the Bible contains a variety of types of literature including historical narrative, poetry, etc., some of which uses figurative language that…

I'm not sure where you're getting some of these ideas. Paul was very much a Jew. He trained under Gamaliel, one of the most prominent Jewish rabbis of the time. He did also have Ro…

I've come to a similar place after doing graduate work in Christian theology. The theology, philosophy, and literature of the Bible is the most-studied of any book in the last two …

Translations are usually done directly from the original language into the target language. The study of early Hebrew and Aramaic and Koine Greek remains an active field and there …

Case in point -- an AWS enhancement to PostgreSQL's connection pooler that could have been released as OSS with essentially no impact on RDS Postgres and yet: https://github.com/aw…

AWS, Google, and MSFT are among the top sponsors of OSI*. They are not neutral arbiters in the OSS space. [0] https://opensource.org/sponsors

Core authentication and security features in Elasticsearch have been free and not Enterprise features since last May: https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-no..…

The FCC has obscenity regulations for broadcast TV in the US under the idea that the broadcast spectrum is owned by the people. Cable television has no such restrictions. That rati…

The expenses involved in the response to the pandemic aren't in any state's budget. All the states are going to petition the federal government for aid and the Fed is going to prin…

The state tax rate in NY has nothing to do with this response (that seems quite good) to the COVID-19 pandemic. The labs that will be performing these extra tests are private labs,…

> There's some nice discussion to be had there about Calvinism and the general relationship between religion and the attitude towards individual achievement. I don't know where the…

On the engineering compensation factor, I interviewed with BAMTech (the successor to MLB [Major League Baseball] Advanced Media and the underlying video streaming platform for Disn…

Well, it was nearly 20 years ago and with SoX and all the other regulations, the fintech industry now is essentially unrecognizable from what it was then. I worked for a bulge-brac…