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> The students don't advocate any position on Prop 13. It's a popular law, and I'm a betting man, I would bet that the average Californian supports it, so the average student-now-adult does, and indeed, maybe that's why it was so hard for Jones to make a persuasive case. Unambitious students want low taxes more than they wanted better educations - sounds stupid, because it is. Anyway, my agenda is only the surprise at the students being the bad guys.

Thank you. I appreciate your admission that you made a series of unfounded assumptions and then used that to judge people you don't know.

> I apologize, I wrote what I was thinking down wrong. They would vote against Prop 13, which is bad.

Where in the article does it show students advocating any position on Prop 13? You twisting the narrative to fit your agenda.

> You are getting hung up on really modern and broad meanings of things like privacy and consent and whatever...

Privacy is not a new concept and your response here is revealing.

> I am not mischaracterizing the criticisms.

Yes you are. Their criticisms are about their right to privacy being violated by an undercover reporter.

> It doesn't change the fact that they would vote against repealing Prop 13.

I missed the part of the article where a former student said that, can you show me?

> It's insane to me that the now-adult students still oppose the journalist. They were victims of this law. Whatever they are saving on their taxes now, they lose in a lifetime of benefits - money and otherwise - from a better personal education and a better educated community.

You are significantly mischaracterizing the criticisms by the students:

> Trigueros said he was not among the most distressed of Jones’ classmates and listened to both sides of the debate. He understood the Chronicle’s attempt to reveal the challenges facing teachers and students, but said a major line was crossed when Jones stepped into the Peer Resource Center, where the school’s most vulnerable students gravitated and opened up. Nov. 3, 1992: Jonny Dror hangs out at the Peer Resource Center, a gathering space where students could speak their minds at George Washington High School in San Francisco.

> “She saw kids were processing divorces and death and homelessness and coming out. She saw all of that,” he said. “We wanted to consider (Shann the reporter) an ally and advocate for us, (but there was) this deep betrayal, and we didn’t consent to all of that.”

Erik Davis is awesome. I took a class taught by him in the early 2000s. It was inspiring.

Sounds like Xerox all over again.

Combinators are great for little ad-hoc parsers but if you have gotten to the point of laying out a formal grammar you should go with a parser generator.

I've had this book on my reading list for a while! Out of Control is referenced heavily in Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture.

Not the parent poster, but I have automatic incremental snapshots of my zfs datasets which also automatically sync to a NAS for backup.

Not a job per se, but some friends and I wrote a library for building compositional chatbots (like for IRC not LLMs necessarily) encoded as Mealy Machines: https://github.com/cofree-coffee/cofree-bot/

That project has since led to a long term collaboration with the Topos Institute where we are building a type theory for Polynomial Functors: https://github.com/toposInstitute/polytt

Polynomial Functors are a really powerful abstraction from Category Theory which subsumes the co-algebraic approach to finite state machines used in `cofree-bot` and which can also be used to encode wiring diagrams, tactics engines, game semantics, neural networks, and dynamical systems in general.

I 100% agree and I think the periodic table is an inappropriate abstraction for organizing tools.

> The criticism of saws I reject: I split them by material in columns (wood- v.s metal-cutting), and by size vertically (getting heavier/more powerful as you go down a column).

You have a single square for Bandsaws regardless of size or materials. Beneath band saw is a square called "other tools" which is on the same row as "big saws" but has an image of WD-40 and Duct Tape.

This table seems heavily biased towards the home woodworker/DIYer with some random antique hand tools thrown into the mix.

I also can't really make heads or tails of the organization. How can "saw teeth," "air pressure tools," and "crescent wrench" each occupy a square? Saw teeth are a part of a blade, air pressure tools is category of power source for any tool, and crescent wrench is a brand of adjustable spanner/wrench. This system makes no sense.

I also cannot find shitloads of common tools even if we are sticking with home scale woodworking. Off the top of my head, where is the router table? The shaper? The jointer? The impact driver? The drum sander? The wide belt sander? The spindle sander?

I think you are largely correct but I don't think it was always this way.

When I first heard about Bitcoin the price had just hit $5 and everyone was either a hardcore libertarian or they thought the idea of a digital currency was very scifi and exciting. I fell into the latter camp and became increasingly disinterested as the years progressed despite making really good money off a brief mining stint.

I can't speak to the article as its paywalled, but professional artists absolutely need and utilize studio management services. I worked in the art world for years before entering the tech industry and it was common, at the professional level, to see teams of office workers working for major artists.

The usual trajectory is something like:

1. Get a studio assistant. 2. Get a couple more studio assistants. 3. Get a studio manager. 4. Get an accountant. 5. Get team of assistants. 6. Oops now we need HR.

I think its totally reasonable to move the goalpost when it turns out the original goalpost didn't actually get you anything more then a 'gee-whiz' demo.

If those old goalposts actually helped solve engineering and product needs then there would be huge praise for the achievements.

Sounds like a good quality lumber. Do you happen to know the price you paid for it? Last I got a quote was before the pandemic but it was around $6 to $7 per boardfoot which at the time was very comparable to hard maple.

I'm out of the loop on current lumber prices.

Or any of the countless lower income offenders who end up with years of jail time for crimes of desperation?

If were going to make a radical policy change in sentencing then it has to be done for everyone all at once.

Many young people or those cheering for minimum wage/child labor laws/workplace safety do not seem to understand that this does more net harm than good...

/s

How did you like Accoya? I've been thinking about using it for a few projects.

Another interesting option is Accoya lumber. It is acetylated softwood performs as well as traditional hardwoods in exterior applications. It looks nice too.

ASTs

The Sovereign Individual gives us another perspective on the so-called 1990s California Ideology. Where Wired Magazine and The WELL find their roots in the 1960s back-to-the-land communard movement and the social application of Cybernetics, Reese-Mogg and Davidson come from a hard money libertarian background. Yet somehow these two camps seem to arrive at a similar techno-utopian vision.

I agree 100%. Its the California Ideology through and through. I just wish more high profile leaders today had a bit of historical perspective.

I thought re-visiting The Long Boom would be interesting given the a16z manifesto.

In addition to simply being better written, I find The Long Boom to be far more consistent of a vision and far less self serving.

The Whole Earth was never really anti-capitalist. Rather Brand and company leveraged the ideas early cybernetics research to build loose networks of engaged individuals with the goal of creating their own centers of power and authority in society and the economy.

No problem! Lucky for us they uploaded all the issues of the catalog. : )

If you look on the Wikipedia page there were a few related physical stores over the years:

> the Whole Earth Catalog was preceded by the "Whole Earth Truck Store" which was a 1963 Dodge truck. In 1968, Brand, who was then 29, and his wife Lois embarked "on a commune road trip" with the truck, hoping to tour the country doing educational fairs. The truck was not only a store, but also an alternative lending library and a mobile microeducation service.

> In 1969, a store which was inspired by (but not financially connected with) The Whole Earth Catalog, called the Whole Earth Access opened in Berkeley, California. It closed in 1998. In 1970 a store called the "Whole Earth Provision Co.", inspired by the catalogue, opened in Austin, Texas.[27] It has six stores in Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.

You can look at the Spring 1970 issue and see the price, the seller's contact info, and the "or WHOLE EARTH CATALOG" statements:

https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-catalog-spring-1970?fo...

Maybe they didn't maintain their own inventory, but it pretty clearly gives you contact info and pricing for ordering all the various products.

A ton of items also say "OR Whole Earth Catalog" which I think implies you could send the money to WEC and they would make the order for you?

It was a mail order catalog for back to land communards.