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Do you think 'At the end of the day, they can either demonstrate mastery of the material at an exam or not' is a reasonable expectation for an adult? If so, how would an adult be t…

Exactly. Personally, I gravitate toward book and topic-specific notes and highlights in the book itself and use the notebook for bigger-picture things for which book references pla…

And if that book doesn't appeal, Dr.Weinberg (he'd prefer 'Jerry' though) has an entire sub-genre of really useful books on humans doing software development. Three other favorites…

My point isn't about a particular breed of nectarines, it's that they are part of a class of goods - food - that isn't optional at any time for any human on earth, and laws have te…

I can go for a month, probably longer, without, say, the internet. I could also go a month without food, maybe, but there are people who can't. Food is different because it is esse…

What this made me think of is life before computers, where people mildly handshake, create agreements on the fly. "Where communication is fuzzy and locked in on an individual basis…

Margaret Thatcher said "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." I feel like the problem that Greenspan, Bernanke, and friends have found…

"I'll be gone, you'll be gone" - Wall Street phrase. "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - J.M. Keynes

I pull from these articles when teaching: 'We should teach our Students what Industry doesn’t want', Kevin Ryan, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3377814.3381719 'Are you sure yo…

If you're going to invoke the UN, you should show the UN resolution calling for action in Venezuela.

I appreciate the enthusiasm for LAN parties and will talk to my gaming friends about getting one going. Related possibilities: 1. Dust off some DVDs and a DVD player, pop some popc…

I confess that I had this in mind. Is it time to start running LAN parties again?

I feel like 'Party like it's 1999' could become the slogan for a movement. Sure, the tech was a little less convenient, but overarching control was also less hard-wired into everyt…

Whatever the merits or demerits of 'marvelous human experiences' are from the point of view of production and consumption, the OP's conclusion leaves out the important point that A…

Funny, I am an FPC Bulldog, class of '80, then moved to Ormond to go to DBCC.

Seconded. This was a great read, and led me to a lot of great listening. And some wondering about how far Minutemen would've went if D. Boon hadn't passed so early. I also think th…

I agree that the consequences are greater. There seem to be at least two perspectives on whether wealth makes you different: 1. In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the rich “ar…

TBH, I was probably closer to 80 miles than 60 before we moved. to Daytona... Flagler Beach. You?

We lived ~60 miles North of the Cape when I was a young boy, and watching the Saturn V's go on the way to the moon was a forming experience.

Yes. "When whole squadrons of very long-range aircraft were operating out of bases in the Shetlands, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland (and, after mid-1943, th…

I think your original point stands; I was not intending to contradict it, only to offer a possible explanation. The Overton window of what is seen as possible and necessary in US p…

That's because all the Democrats are Republicans. "”The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, …

> UBW cannot be low overhead I suppose. There would be overhead in asking people to do something (UBW) rather than simply offering money (UBI). It strikes me that the benefits of b…

Agreed. I tend to think a job guarantee would work better than UBI: have the government provide a job to anyone who can't find one somewhere else, something like what was done in t…