I periodically mail a DVD of important stuff to my parents and ask them to toss it in the basement. You could do the same thing with backup tapes, or whatever. Drives/tape/flash/dvd is pretty damn cheap and easy. These…
I keep seeing articles about Go where Python developers seem to be shocked to discover that interpreted dynamically typed languages are very slow. This wasn't obvious from the get-go? Practically anything not disk bound…
Technical debt can accrue to the point where a piece of software is "bankrupt." Any successful refactoring amounts to extracting a subset and redoing everything else, which can practically amount to a rewrite.
I'm also too cheap for bullet trains. Lots of people cheer-lead for high speed rail in America, but all I want is normal trains that run quite frequently.
Most people have lived very healthily on diets consisting 90%+ of various cereal or potato gruels. I just don't see how a high-tech powder really simplify things. You can almost live on mashed potatoes. That's barely…
No to mention there's no such thing as low risk 7% returns. Maybe the S&P historically did that for a 15 year period here and there, but anyone telling you it's something you can plan on is either lying or a fool.
It's proximity to Canadian latitudes. The nearer you get to Canada in the USA, consistently you get better educational outcomes and crime rates. The obvious solution to our social problems in America is to move all the…
I'm sick of near daily hearing about white people "helping" Africans and African animals. Let the Africans run Africa in their own way.
Ridiculous. The average American watches hours of TV a day. Prepping a simple rice or potato based meal takes ten minutes; less time than the drive-thru. We have to stop pretending that the obesity epidemic is about…
The important metric is wealth creation beyond the wages the immigrants themselves capture. The picture right now is that immigrants to the USA clearly do produce wealth, however they capture all the benefits for…
> Business creation is wealth creation. It is job creation. It is everything to the american economy. Most new businesses are small businesses. The jobs associated with small business are significantly worse than…
What exactly are the density restrictions on residential buildings in San Francisco? I'm slightly familiar with DC and Philadelphia and in neither case is building height or zoning the key issue. Unions and crime figure…
This is the letter of the law but everyone knows it's a joke. There are very successful consulting firms that guide employers through the process of "documenting" that workers are not available at the "prevailing wage."…
The reasons for the culture of urban sprawl in the USA substantially boil down to white flight. Urban planning was a disaster in most US cities, the governments and services were dysfunctional, and there were too many…
There's also seems to be a case against eating any concentrated feed lot raised meat from the USA. Russia and others have banned its import.
Anybody have comments on Guile vs. V8 for embedding purposes? Performance? API quality?
In a legitimate land grab style business model you could be working lots of hours for a rather good shot at very large amounts of money. I don't see anything wrong with burning the candle hard for a few years on a well…
Are Taiwanese companies Chinese or not?
Inflation transfers wealth from savers and creditors to those with first access to newly created money. In our system it is the banks and the federal government that have first access to newly created money.
I periodically mail a DVD of important stuff to my parents and ask them to toss it in the basement. You could do the same thing with backup tapes, or whatever. Drives/tape/flash/dvd is pretty damn cheap and easy. These…
I keep seeing articles about Go where Python developers seem to be shocked to discover that interpreted dynamically typed languages are very slow. This wasn't obvious from the get-go? Practically anything not disk bound…
Technical debt can accrue to the point where a piece of software is "bankrupt." Any successful refactoring amounts to extracting a subset and redoing everything else, which can practically amount to a rewrite.
I'm also too cheap for bullet trains. Lots of people cheer-lead for high speed rail in America, but all I want is normal trains that run quite frequently.
Most people have lived very healthily on diets consisting 90%+ of various cereal or potato gruels. I just don't see how a high-tech powder really simplify things. You can almost live on mashed potatoes. That's barely…
No to mention there's no such thing as low risk 7% returns. Maybe the S&P historically did that for a 15 year period here and there, but anyone telling you it's something you can plan on is either lying or a fool.
It's proximity to Canadian latitudes. The nearer you get to Canada in the USA, consistently you get better educational outcomes and crime rates. The obvious solution to our social problems in America is to move all the…
I'm sick of near daily hearing about white people "helping" Africans and African animals. Let the Africans run Africa in their own way.
Ridiculous. The average American watches hours of TV a day. Prepping a simple rice or potato based meal takes ten minutes; less time than the drive-thru. We have to stop pretending that the obesity epidemic is about…
The important metric is wealth creation beyond the wages the immigrants themselves capture. The picture right now is that immigrants to the USA clearly do produce wealth, however they capture all the benefits for…
> Business creation is wealth creation. It is job creation. It is everything to the american economy. Most new businesses are small businesses. The jobs associated with small business are significantly worse than…
What exactly are the density restrictions on residential buildings in San Francisco? I'm slightly familiar with DC and Philadelphia and in neither case is building height or zoning the key issue. Unions and crime figure…
This is the letter of the law but everyone knows it's a joke. There are very successful consulting firms that guide employers through the process of "documenting" that workers are not available at the "prevailing wage."…
The reasons for the culture of urban sprawl in the USA substantially boil down to white flight. Urban planning was a disaster in most US cities, the governments and services were dysfunctional, and there were too many…
There's also seems to be a case against eating any concentrated feed lot raised meat from the USA. Russia and others have banned its import.
Anybody have comments on Guile vs. V8 for embedding purposes? Performance? API quality?
In a legitimate land grab style business model you could be working lots of hours for a rather good shot at very large amounts of money. I don't see anything wrong with burning the candle hard for a few years on a well…
Are Taiwanese companies Chinese or not?
Inflation transfers wealth from savers and creditors to those with first access to newly created money. In our system it is the banks and the federal government that have first access to newly created money.