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I wouldn't say it's a "whole other discussion" when the changes are causing the unemployment. When globalization was pushed, the government passed laws to help retrain workers. May…

Secretaries still exist, but the job's divided into two broad categories. Receptionists, who don't make much, and executive secretaries who make middle class salaries. The latter d…

True. I think most people want the lowest price for a specific branded product. They start off by deciding, more or less, on getting a certain level of perceived quality, and then …

Those are called "price controls."

I think the answer is "sell the house and move somewhere cheaper."

LOL, so true. I'm starting to get the same feeling about Georgists. They're in a bubble of their own making, in denial about their own reality, and prone to making up new definitio…

At LATTC everyone knew about financial aid. It was the default situation. I haven't been there, but I've been to CC in a low income community, and the assumption was that you'd get…

At the school my partner went to, LA Trade Tech, it seemed like most students got financial aid. There were multiple offices involved in doing all the paperwork involved (in a mult…

If a single wealthy person is, non-anonmously, going to be allowed to electioneer, that's actually the price that should be paid for restrictions on associations. People can judge …

The rules were limited to corporations, associations and unions. Individuals were not restricted in this type of speech. Citizens United was a nonprofit corporation.

The issue was who made the political speech and whether it was electioneering (promoting a candidate). Before CU, corporations, associations, and unions could not spend their money…

The main problem with his posts is that he's equating opiate addiction with psilocybin use. These are two different drugs, and the latter is being used as part of smoking addiction…

As I understand it, things like schizophrenia are primarily hereditary, and the trauma pushes you over the edge. So, people with a family history of schizophrenia or related condit…

If psilocybin can be used to get people to stop smoking, drinking, or using heroin, it could seriously reduce healthcare costs. People in the drug underground use it to treat OCD a…

Also, this story is about treating addiction with psilocybin. Perhaps it could be used to treat opiate addiction.

I'm doing an application that runs scripts for a REST API. Using Django REST API to build the service.

There are tools, at least on Unix, to add guis to command lines. gtkdialog and zenity are the ones I've seen. You need to write a shell script that runs commands to display the gui…

They could join another nonprofit.

I think it's a good idea. Cert prices vary, and there are reasons for it, and companies would rather pay for stability than save money.

I think the relationship is desirable, which is why some people will pay a higher price to have a relationship with a vendor, with the understanding that if s transaction goes wron…

This is also a problem with javascript. Javascript should do automatic variable shadowing but also throw a warning.

Mobile car bombs? Is that what these are, ultimately?

What about "howto". There's already a vast culture of writing howto pages. howto curl howto cc howto network

Yes. Geek culture isn't about being a bro. When I think about "bros" I think about guys who party, and then let someone else do the work. It's about power disguised as being carefr…

Also a Big Lebowsky reference.