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What I find most interesting is how few of those stereotypes/archetypes are present in our media today. I still know many of most of them, but they've been replaced as our economy …

I'm still wondering how this precedent prevents parallel construction nonsense

Simply requiring an actual, physical filibuster would weaken it's power while keeping it as a check on excess or an option for a principled stand/PR stunt.

even 0.5% interest on recourse debt is fundamentally usury.

Our employers will revolt because we will either cost more or be slower. The price of an developer is already very high compared to other skilled labor

“We must know our customers” The bank will take any approach other than having an account manager who knows each customer individually. This is the biggest reason I make it a prior…

Generally it's worth talking to a lawyer about cases like this.

Ultimately "Show me the code" is the only standard that has ever worked for Open Source. Give me code to reproduce an issue for people who are contributing as developers.

In North America its often considered "crippling" children to give them too much help. I've seen it repeatedly, with some families giving children 3 months after graduation to begi…

The other option is self-built. But that's been roughly the way things have always been. What's changed is the creation of a middle path of "built to sell" homes.

People who can independently produce food have a form of real power that is very hard to resist. The measures used to keep various peasant and serf classes under control were so ex…

I still see this in rural America. Guys show up and transfer the title on the car for an envelope of cash and a signature. Same for livestock, butchering, services and so on.

And any time you decide to eff over anyone, you can and should expect resistance.

Because very few companies offer relocation. Living on welfare in a paid for trailer on land your ancestors lived on is much more appealing than moving without relocation for worse…

The point is that there was enough water in the desert until people decided building massive retirement communities in the desert was a good idea.

Imposing a protective tariff on goods that are against our interest to sell isn't at all comparable to a 200% property tax

Any time an activist organization presents evidence that the state doesn't contest I assume the whole case was set up by activists and the lawyers on both sides have an outcome tha…

The number of grazers that are needed to maintain a prairie or plains ecosystem is far higher than most people assume, and vast spaces in the US are becoming forested because of la…

I'm not sure that's a bad thing given that the previous approach was hampered so much by confusion about where the value is. If this is a commitment to a set of source then the pla…

The day a professor made me implement a simple http server was the day I achieved code enlightenment. At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings

But the claim you called BS wasn't that they had 25 year warranties, just that they last 25 years. As rule my Grandparents had stuff that was out of warranty, but having repairs do…

Unit files seem like a good idea. Does systemd need to do everything it does in order to gain that benefit?

I'm curious what alternative you make use of. My issue has been that getting an alternative set up was just painful enough that the related learning doesn't fit into a very full sc…

In my past experience the poor I know are saying, "I would like to be able to afford gas to drive to work, and have a workplace that treats me with dignity and afford a good night …