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But economies do not follow uninterrupted tracks. r>g is unstable, and it will collapse. It should have collapsed in 2008, but capitalism is very resilient and capitalists very resourceful and they…

More please....

Good advice. But in the face of power imbalances ineffective.

Given the structural inequalities between USA and Mexico "opening the boarders" is impractical. Given the structural inequalities between USA and Mexico allowing free movement of capital bet…

What is your definition of capitalism?

The fundamental point (r>g) is irrefutable. It may be possible to claim that inequality does not matter. In the absence of poverty that may be possible, but when the richest country in the world (…

Tourism.

True. But worth noting that it is a minority government. The ruling party has to get the agreement of two other parties to act

"I propose, instead of this jackassery, three actual virtues: Hard Work, Patience, and Humility. How much better would it be to work with people who embraced and embodied these qualities? How gre…

Bingo, partly. Also it is free as in beer. Where's the code? Also, free crippled version and pay for useful version Not free

If you want to learn programming, from my point of view, learn C.

This is not free.

That was interesting. ESR says "Make no mistake; we are under attack". Too right. Good thing too! But the attack is from projects making huge progress with codes of conduct and efforts to …

This misses the point. "The point is that the amount of money that your workers are making, does not have any significant effect on the demand side of who buys your product." This is a class…

Repeated use of a straw man argument. I knew that retention was a reason for higher pay. But social inclusion was too, that is the surplus of money and ability to join in consumer culture. (I doubt …

Typical ESR What are "attempts to subvert OSD clauses 5 and 6."? A link would have been helpful...

"The whole discipline Rachel writes about is clearly intended for mature, scaled operations where outages..." That is not true. RotB is describing saftware inefficiencies that we learnt to …

This is exactly what I think. Those below who complain about the complaints are missing the point. We (computer programmers as a general class) have not learnt from history. We keep reinventing wheel…

"Contains Ads" No thanks

In my experience those PI Zero cases and camera are very unreliable. They over heat

"Software engineers" are not. Engineers. "Software engineering" is not. Engineering. Delusions of grandeur is the problem.

"than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area." Units, people. Units. Be imperial. Be metric. Hey! Be both!

Given commercial pressures would a Boeing reentry vehicle be over designed to such a extent that on such a failure (failure to separate, entering with the wrong attitude ?correct term?) result in &qu…

"Internet Explorer on Windows was"... 90% plus of the market

Wow. I was doing Web development in 1999 for a year or too I never got that deep. But I recall clearly adopting a left/right column for static content and center column for the CGI output custom …

Reason to switch? Trust. Mozilla cf Google.

Very interesting. I am not sure that I am one or the other. My thoughts form in a soup of cognition. Then if I pay attention become words, or smeeld, sounds, tastes.... Related: I play guitar in two r…

Ads are the past. The future is getting paid to make the app that actual is useful Hmmm... What are these "ads"? Says the uBlock kid....