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Not OT. Casablanca is considered by most film critics to be one of the greatest films created and that's one of it's most powerful scenes. But I'm glad it made you think of that comme…

This is a great write up of why Casablanca is an immaculate screenplay: economy of vision. Great architecture doesn't need a thousand beams but just a few, perfectly placed arches. Picasso coul…

Some composers are more repetitive than others. There’s an old joke: Knock knock Who’s there? Philip Glass Knock knock Who’s there? Philip Glass Knock knock Who’s there? Philip Glass

My wife and I have one child and she requested homeschooling for high school. So we moved from Europe to Idaho, where it's supported. (I'm American.) She's been doing a hybrid model of…

Please remember that not everyone has the same experiences, socially, in school and that for some, homeschooling is the vastly better option in that regard.

That's an amazing idea. I had no idea. I'm going to do this. Thank you!

I know but I hate the system and don't want to be bullied into participating.

No... we very much have a "credit score." I'm American and don't like credit cards. I have a shockingly low credit score simply because I choose to pay using debit cards and I do…

Brilliant article

One day, a year before turning 50, I decided to play a five minute game of chess against Lichess, level 2. I lost horribly but I wanted to make it a habit. So every day with my morning coffee I woul…

I remember at 19 when I first went to Venice, I walked down the steps from the train station as I had in so many other cities on my three month train tour of Europe, but this time, the stone steps wen…

My 16-year-old daughter is an artist and she's trying to put together a site that would let artists post their work and collaborate: https://getcollabing.com My email is in my profile…

Further, it's damaging to our society and hinders progress and innovation.

Not how I understand it. That just means you're willing to tolerate a higher P/E for that stock. You still expect earnings will eventually cover the price. When you have 401(k) plans which…

What gave you the idea that it would materialize in your time frame?

I think you're right but I don't think it has to be that way. Like others, up until a few years ago, I was a Keynesian. But then I realized that if you allow inflation you're not just …

> Need to buy a house? bid 20% more than asking, if you don't - someone else will.. in cash. Buying in cash is being done to skirt the tightened up lending standards that followed the 2008 Cri…

I remember when this came out and there was a buzz about what the NBL was. He was thinking server-side JavaScript and he was right, although some of the features he list we’re still waiting for. I als…

They didn't really have another choice and yet, "iceberg, meet titanic"

As someone with a 15-year-old account here, I can verify that Jacques is in a special, small group of members of this community with recognized user names -- based on a long and impeccable record of s…

The article seems to be blaming the division of society on the Like button. I'm saying it was going to happen with or without that for the reasons I listed.

I think there are two intersecting issues. The first is the dwindling of easy resources. The second half of the 20th century was so easy it was wasteful, and we don't want to give that up -- th…

> If online works for you, awesome ... But I don’t think you are in the majority. I think there's a huge under-served group who are specifically not the majority. Smart kids are generally h…

Lafayette and, much further out, Martinez are two places that have that, for example.

It's actually 0.12%

Correction: The entire board ex-Jack owns a little more than .1% of Twitter. (0.12%)