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I keep my phone plugged in on the other side of my (~7 person, locking) office. That works rather well.

People's politics are mostly determined by where they live, and maybe their age. If you insist on fighting over politics, you should at least recognize that's what you're fighting over.

It's not about life and death or oppression, it's just about where you're from. And you're just fighting with people who live somewhere else than you.

People's actual concrete opinions on issues change with time, with their social circle, etc. The issues are not as important as people think they are, and there are lots of life and death issues which don't elicit churlish behavior the way politics does.

I hope he tries, because all the facile anti-tech rhetoric on the left will probably go away if he does.

It's a shame that btrfs seems to be dead in the water. I guess nobody with the resources to build such a filesystem actually needs its snapshotting and integrity features at the filesystem level?

The bit about local restaurants losing business seems like a pretty thin fig leaf over a law that's really about taking tech employees down a peg.

I don't live in the bay area, so maybe someone can fill me in. How is it supposedly so gentrified that nobody but software engineers can survive, yet local politicians feel comfortable doing things like this? Who actually lives in the city?

As the blog post says: "Error: Syntax Error".

Helpful error messages have not been my experience.

This is a nice counterexample to the wisdom that production compilers all use hand-written parsers. Of course, the current parser does suck, but...

What are the free speech laws that prevent ISPs from blocking controversial content?

I think what we'll really see in practice is this being used for political purposes, with pressure groups getting ISPs to block so-called "hate" or "extremist" sites.

The stuff about service tiers seems less likely and less concerning.

I recently was looking at the original LR paper by Knuth, and for the first time noticed that it said "Case Institute of Technology" at the top.

i.e. he discovered it as an undergrad.

The math majors in my upper-level math classes had significantly better social skills than the people in the CS classes I took.

This is only an anecdote, but it's not obvious to me that mathematics isn't more social than CS.

Nobody will talk about "common sense media control" for some reason. It's common sense!

It's like how the 2008 election didn't count, because Obama is actually a Kenyan. People can't just lose an election anymore.

Here is, roughly, the media's playbook:

1. Never stop talking about Trump. Mention his name 300 times an hour on CNN. He's not a serious candidate, but he is entertaining so they give him free publicity until he is a serious candidate.

2. Start blathering about Hillary's emails, as if that were somehow important.

3. Now Trump is elected. In these tough times, it is more important than ever to support high-quality independent journalism. Subscription numbers swell.

4. We need someone to blame for the outcome of this election. Obviously it is the fault of Facebook, Google, etc, who have been taking the media's ad revenue. Not the fault of the media who would never shut up about Trump.

Can we trust the New York Times to regulate itself either?

What makes this guy think it's acceptable to talk to people like this?

Analysis in general is notorious for these kinds of things. There's a neat little Dover book called Counterexamples in Analysis full of them.

When you live in a coop, you usually pay rent.

It is not many. Definitely not "so many."

My father recently passed, and a month or so afterwards we got a bill from the nursing home pharmacy who, apparently, couldn't figure out how to bill his insurance.

The price for 30 atorvastatin, whose out-of-pocket cost is about $20, was $160. The same with other cheap generic heart medications.

Complaining about high drug costs is a red herring. Drug prices are a small fraction of healthcare costs, and even if new drugs were made cheap, healthcare providers would still overcharge for them.

They don't have to be right, they just have to exist in sufficient numbers.

How long can this stuff last on your roof? Will it shed glass microbeads everywhere when the UV degrades it?

I remember reading somewhere that the modularity requirement was basically written to make sure the P320 won. No, I can't recall where or cite.

Same with save page, etc.

1. I don't know what education degrees look like in other countries, but I highly doubt more education majors in the US would solve anything without first overhauling that curriculum and making it more demanding.

2. Is there any factual evidence for this often-repeated stereotype about Asian children having less curiosity and love of learning than American ones?

I do believe that MACRO in the slides refers to MACRO-11, a PDP assembler. Or maybe MACRO-32, for VAX. In either case, they have been compiling this "assembly" language for Alpha (and now I guess Itanium) since VMS has run on that architecture.

I bet PIMCO is really happy they kicked him out, now that he's promoting Bitcoin.

I guess Apple could 'survive' releasing a new generation of laptops which run slower than the previous ones to facilitate a user-invisible component sourcing decision, but it seems like a bad move.

You need a faster processor to hide the emulation overhead. Good luck beating Intel by a big enough margin.

I'd expect trap to be popular on any site full of young people.