SnacksOnAPlane

Absolutely, which is why breaking up the country geographically wouldn't work. And breaking up the country based on population density seems like a logistical nightmare.

We may be better off as separate countries, but the divide isn't red state vs. blue state. It's urban vs. rural.

I'm in Atlanta, and most of us here wouldn't be happy at all living in a "deep south" country.

One of my web sites is run by a "bundle exec rails s" in a tmux window on an EC2 instance. New deploy? Run "git pull" (and maybe "rake db:migrate") in tmux pane and restart the "rails s" command. Easy peasy.

I'd make it more complicated and resilient but why?

I still haven't seen a great reason to go NoSQL over, say, Postgres. I'll think about a good application but then realize that it'll be a PITA to do something slightly different than what I first imagined.

What are good reasons to use NoSQL over SQL?

For #1, the master password gets entered in when you need to decrypt the password file, right?

Doesn't that mean that anyone who can read the input stream from your keyboard can decrypt all your passwords?

I mean, I use a password manager because it's the least-shitty way I can think of to not reuse passwords, but to me it's a matter of when and not if some bad guy manages to insert malware into the password manager code and get all the passwords.

I question whether this is really more useful. You'd have to show that advertisers noticed that data was fake, and that they cared, and that they cared enough to pull FB advertising.

To do that, you'd have to get a whole lot of people putting up false data, and to do that, you'd have to make it very easy to do. Which would probably make it detectable (you think your fake data tool will stay off their radar?).

It looks like it doesn't have to read data from a static gist file. It can read from any JSON source, and you can just have the formatting data in the gist.

But I feel like you're blaming the victims. It was actually people like Rupert Murdoch who set up the whole "our culture is being destroyed by PC run amok" thing, and they did it to gin up ratings for Fox News and to gain power.

We're all vulnerable to cultural brainwashing. I think that's part of what the article is complaining about. It's hard to be an iconoclast, especially when you're treated as an immoral person if you dare to think for yourself.

Again, the way to save the country is to call out all demonization of "the other". Of course I call it out when I see it, to the point where my liberal friends think I'm conservative and my conservative friends think I'm liberal.

First, Roy Moore lost. It wasn't a resounding loss, but he did lose.

Second, acting like an entire region as a monoculture is stupid and unproductive. We're all very, very different, and while there are some trends that are more prevalent in a region, that doesn't mean that the people who believe those things are backwards. Perhaps it means that you just haven't tried to see things from their perspective.

The lack of empathy and the unwillingness to consider that other people have different backgrounds and codes of ethics and a dogmatic insistence that "this way is the right way" is what's killing our cohesion as a country. And, as a whole, I've seen more of the "live and let live" philosophy in Atlanta than in a whole lot of supposedly liberal places.

Why are you associating those douchebags with the south? Newt I get, but aren't the rest of them in NYC?

The real divide in this country is rural vs. urban. Cities in the south are plenty progressive, and rural areas in the rest of the country are plenty conservative.

I've lived in Boston and Atlanta, and Atlanta is a much more tolerant, friendly place.

How so? Stating your thoughts with conviction ends any hope of a reasonable discussion? Maybe if you're afraid of confrontation. For me it's an invitation to debate.

We're really not.

So here's a nice idea I had that I don't have time to implement:

A specialized debate forum. Basically, two people decide to debate on an issue. They are the featured debaters. They write positions and submit them, and then they try to knock down the other person's positions.

Watchers can comment on specific points they make, annotating them and giving points for them. I imagine a system kind of like RapGenius.

Eventually, in the best case, the best arguments float to the top, and the more common arguments will have a home on the net where people can point to them instead of rehashing them over and over again. Leading to more intelligent discourse and a perfect society.

People should be aware that this does not mean you shouldn't meditate. At least give it a shot. The risk/reward ratio is so heavily skewed toward reward (what are the risks, really?) that you'd be foolish not to try it.

I'm one of those possibly-rare people who considers the ebook experience superior to the physical book. No bookmarks necessary, can read on Kindle while home and continue reading on my phone while out, mega-cheap if you watch for deals, hundreds of books available to read at any time...what's not to love?

As long as neverssl.com still exists so I have some way to pop up the login page from captive wifi portals, I'm fine with everyone else going SSL.

However, I basically agree that if you're just hosting a blog with no user interaction, there's really no need for it. The threats (for example, somebody hijacks the request and returns different content) are minimal.

Have you heard the Shatner cover of this song? It's pretty great.

Atlanta used to be "Atlantan" but now the preferred nomenclature is "ATLien". Thanks, Outkast!

There are. This is an uppercase 7: & and this is an uppercase 8: *.

This kills the joke.

You don't hear about all the times that the FDA actually stopped tainted food products from reaching the market.

I oh-so-vigorously disagree. Building web sites is the fastest way to get a return on your learning investment. Plus there's tons of mature tech out there to learn, and plenty of educational material.

Man, I don't get why everyone's saying that we're insignificant because of this photo.

As far as we know, we're the most exciting thing going on in this corner of the universe. There is probably no other place that has conscious beings in that photo. We are massively important, primarily because we can recognize our own importance.

This isn't to say it isn't good to be humble. It certainly can be. But we're pretty damn incredible.

"What kind is it? I don't want to deprive you of a beer if I won't enjoy it." There, done.

I'd just like to say that it isn't permanent. You can change. I used to be extremely introverted; now I'm extremely extroverted. I still need a certain amount of alone time, and I'm fine with that, but I'm no longer what I would consider "shy". And yes, there is a difference between "shy" and "introverted", but I think that in a lot of cases people who say they're introverted actually have social anxiety, which you can absolutely conquer.

I know some Japanese, including the phrase "give me my money back", because I would constantly play the Japanese version of Ben Folds Five's "Song For the Dumped". So there's some anecdotal proof that this works.

Yeah, that's what's great about the company. How many companies can you say "they cost a little bit more, but I like them so much that I'm willing to pay it" about? I can count like 3. It's a testament to how awesome they are.

They normally advertise them.

He seems like one of the better reps. Why are you singling him out? I mean, yeah, sometimes he chooses party over country, but at least sometimes he does the reverse.