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I tried to use Scheme years ago, and I found that no matter how good a language is, writing something to interface with some ugly API or something like that, or debugging an existi…

Trump's crassness, and the fact that the other coastal elites legitimately hate him, makes him seem authentic, despite his background.

I lived in Houston for a few years and I'd take its flaws over being house poor in a coastal city.

I don't get how this is supposed to fit in with the fact that discrimination against older workers is a big thing. Who is supposed to be hiring these 70 year olds with no savings?

I just bought a sub-$300 laptop, which was unusable with the default Windows OS. It's snappy with Ubuntu/unity. I don't think very many people care about running 2001 laptops anymo…

You do interact with other players via gym battles, and if gyms are dominated by cheaters it ruins the game for everyone else.

Walmart recently (this year) changed their pay structure so that nobody will make less than $11/hour, which is good for jobs that don't even require high school or the ability to s…

Any unskilled job is going to have a low enough pay rate that many of the employees will qualify for public assistance. This goes for Walmart, Target, and the mom and pop shops Wal…

They look purple and orange to me, and I am not colorblind. I have sometimes disagreed with other people whether a color is orange or red so maybe there's some other variation in c…

It's the standard size of a vial of insulin - 1000 units, same as the extremely expensive insulins referenced in the article and by other people in this thread. How long it lasts d…

The article fails to mention that you can get a vial of insulin (regular or NPH) without a prescription at Walmart for $25. Not generic, but inexpensive. The rapid acting and the o…

The whole thing shouldn't weigh very much, assuming it's limited to delivering lightweight objects, and the rotors could be covered with a screen. I don't see much potential for da…

Xanga.

There was an error in my calculations, which are based on freshman college physics I took in the 90s, so never mind. Attempt #2: Gravitational potential energy = kinetic energy = .…

It is not safe to say that. By many measures, including height, disease burden, and hours worked per week, paleolithic man was better off than his descendants until pretty recently…

That's not going to solve overpopulation problems here, because it would be cheaper to feed someone for life (ie it would require less energy) than it would be to send that person …

I think you've hit the nail on the head. The people who know all the new terminology get to feel superior to the ones who don't keep up.

How many people were fired or expelled over things like not wearing flag pins?

Why should "oriental" be offensive? It's derived from a word for "eastern." What fool came up with the idea that we should be offended by it, and start using the term "Asian," whic…

Most killings in war haven't involved looking a man in the eyes and shooting him for a very long time. At least as recently as WWI, most deaths (excluding disease) were caused by a…

I had the exact opposite experience - our chromebook is used all the time while or tablet collects dust. Having a real keyboard is a big advantage. The features you list that a tab…

I thought jobs was a father of one, but a quick look on wiki shows I was mistaken. But I'm pretty sure pg is, and probably always will be at his age and the age of h his wife. One …

I would think little kids today don't get talked to as much as they did in the past because many or most have single mothers with jobs and few or no siblings, whereas the baby boom…

Sure, if you define success strictly in terms of reproductive fitness. By that standard, two of the heroes of hners, pg and Steve jobs, are abject failures, while a crack whore who…

There are a lot of situations where you have to know a lot of facts and there's no way around rote memorization. Critical thinking isn't enough - you need a corpus of information. …