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It's hard to say. For most people it would not work out well, unless you're in an occupation where it's easy to find work. As far as unions go, the broader question is whether or n…

Excellent article and entirely relevant. "One interpretation of this holds that it was not an observation about what a regular guy Adolf Eichmann seemed to be, but rather a stateme…

I agree that the world needs to be less focused on software, and a simpler life would be nice. I also agree that people should not try to change others and focus on themselves, but…

Our society has many problems. People want change, and protests occur regularly (Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wallstreet), but very little change happens as a result. We've just expe…

Something for nothing is exactly what we are guilty of. It happens when we get a product cheaper because companies generally don't have to pay to rebuild damaged ecosystems. It hap…

Another CouchDB fan here. CouchDb's mango queries are implemented as Erlang map functions under the hood. Users now can get the speed of Erlang and the usability of Mongo-like quer…

I was looking into Solid for a bit, but stopped as my concerns grew, must of which are expressed in other comments. Recently I've been enamored with the Dat Protocol and the Beaker…

IMO, this type of communal living strategy is the best remedy to a lot of the problems faced in America and in western cultural in general. Many of the problems were already stated…

The only developer living on a boat that I know of is Dominic Tarr, creator of secure scuttlebutt. I think one of the other main contributers lives off the grid somewhere. Seems li…

The biggest win when using functional css, or css utility classes, is that it is extracted out into a library already, in which case there is nothing to create or maintain (just th…

+1 for solid. Solid has these concerns baked into the design. It's the best solution I've seen for user-owned data and interoperability, not to mention the wealth of possibilities …

The personal responsibility argument is always equally true and futile. Systems need to account for irresponsibility, especially those like the transportation system. The thought p…

Yes that would have been better.

The person who started that topic did have that problem, but I feel the title represents the topic as a whole, including all the comments. The problem is this. We have a Google Mus…

Where do the Christians stand on this issue? If there's one single group that has the power to calibrate people's moral compass on this issue, is would be clergymen. As another per…