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OK, but first you have to solve for X in the following example: The Romans would displace conquered peoples by resettling them in Rome while the Romans went out into the hinterland…

It's not a panacea, but nothing is. When you have almost nothing to start with, there is always food. I'm from the south and the foodie boom has been an enormous benefit for us. Fo…

"I think there are ISP options that net neutrality prohibits which are worth exploring for some people, and if repealing net neutrality benefits decentralization or creates a radic…

Because they are a bit of an untapped resource. The right are more likely to be open to conservation efforts rather than traditional crunchy environmental efforts, but they too oft…

From what I gather she is, my only point is that when you are in a dense field, generally your partner isn't too enthusiastic when you get into the minutia you've spent a 1000+ hou…

Probably helps that he is in a field that is so esoteric that he really doesn't have a lot of other people to talk to this stuff about. It's not like people go home and talk to the…

Agreed. Not to mention hitting the gym for an hour every night closes a lot of access to self-medication.

No idea why it was posted. I've only started this one, but what Scott seems to be advocating is essentially Anarcho-syndicalism. Where Marx said that hunter-gatherers were engaging…

I have no real interest in ever trying to live in one, but as an outside observer, I find the question of turning one of these into a cheap habitat to be a fascinating question. Ki…

Really it all boils down to a lack of community. Yeah I know, it sounds like something the dad from Leave it to Beaver would say. My favorite example goes back to the days of Quake…

"WYSIWYG text editors, spreadsheets, desktops, and web browsers" are all more than serviceable in Linux. I seldom find Firefox less useful on Linux than any other platform. For the…

K&R gets so much hell, but it's a good, raw back to basics text. It deserves a place on the shelf beside the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, or Wheelock's Latin, or Lyman's Guide to…

And some people still have the cartridges laying around in boxes from 1980s and aren't in the mood to lug all that stuff out, let alone re-purchase what they already own. EDIT I'm …

While it may often be true, it is a bit like saying "the only good artist is a miserable one". In reality, the good artist is driven by their passion and misery is a passion life o…

Thanks for the suggestion, I picked it up on Kindle and will give it a go over the weekend. Granted I'm not sure if I can handle too many more Marxist views of the Antebellum South…

Time to patch in a pan-dimensional baka-hammer.

It should be noted that Lysenkoism was a Soviet state doctrine. In Belyaev's heyday, he had to dodge legitimate genetics research and make his work appear to be the study of animal…

That's a valid reason. So is "I wanna knock some of the BS in my head loose". I may be close minded, but "To receive the essence of Grandmother's wisdom and understand the psychic …

Yep. It's been a while since I read that.

While I don't doubt the psychological benefits of ayahuasca (or any hallucinogenic), the language of many of those advocating in the article set off red flags. "Format your harddri…

People have built upon, but (at least in Stallman's case) also built around. You can go back as far as the late 2000's and the GPL still had a huge following. With the mobile boom …

I put Chomsky on the same shelf that I put Richard Stallman on. They've both spent years building huge and sometimes impenetrable rhetorical castles. Yet there is a cost of staking…

Snarky me says to create better Kafka-esque experiences. Pragmatic me says legislators were more than happy to essentially rubber-stamp, "We'll defer to a higher power because this…