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by beat 8y ago
Fully half that list is movies from the 20th century, going back as far as 1920. I think it's a flawed list in many ways (especially the lack of non-English language films, missing masterpieces like Tarkovsky's Stalker ), but it
902.
by beat 8y ago
I think you're pointing to the wrong "they". The "biased by their politics" problem isn't with the mainstream news sources so much as the people who assume that anything that doesn't fit their worldview is
903.
by beat 8y ago
I live a few blocks from that train, so I wind up taking it all the time to get to the mall or downtown. The novelty wears off, and you wind up mostly worried about having to share your ride with packs of unruly teenagers, or sports fans he
904.
by beat 8y ago
Makes me think of something I say occasionally... "The simplest thing that can possibly work is simpler than the simplest thing you can possibly imagine."
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by beat 8y ago
It's not so much that Christianity is the source of justice, hard work, and loving children as that Christianity claims to be the source of these things. And, since Christianity is inextricable from European imperialism, those "
906.
by beat 8y ago
That phrase bothered me for a different reason - namely, the role of Christian evangelism in western imperialism. Christianity became a key justification for the racism and orientalism necessary to justify the imperialism, the idea that enl
907.
by beat 8y ago
Excellent, thoughtful review of one of the great modern social theorists. I really enjoyed Capitalist Realism , and will be diving into this one, too!
908.
by beat 8y ago
Effortless Mastery , by Kenny Werner. The Music Lesson , by Victor Wooten. Both of these are about music, but are really about mastery. Shop Class as Soulcraft , by Matthew B. Crawford. This is a much more philosophical/academic arg
909.
by beat 8y ago
A lot of it is about learning how to learn. Developing skill and mastery is a similar problem in almost any field, and you can learn a lot by reading from masters in other fields. I'm currently reading Handmade: Creative Focus in the
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by beat 8y ago
Hopefully. A friend of mine once said "So do you have ten years of experience, or do you have one year of experience ten times?"
911.
by beat 8y ago
I'm reminded of an observation a friend once made... "Light rail is how middle class people get to work. Bus is how poor people pick up their welfare checks." That's his nutshell parody of the mentality that makes rail p
912.
by beat 8y ago
2gb, I think. Might be 4. It runs fine, though. A text editor, even with lots of features, is less load than a browser session for a complex website. Likewise, local node.js servers aren't very expensive.
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by beat 8y ago
I wonder if this applies to chains, or to situations where multiple restaurants are owned by the same person/company? Some of my favorite local restauranteurs own three or four places, with different focus, but often a lot of customer
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by beat 8y ago
I recommend reading Ta-Nehisi Coates on this subject. He's done terrific work on the history of redlining, and also talks about the impact of educated, successful families moving out of historically black neighborhoods.
915.
by beat 8y ago
I was very pleased to discover that Visual Studio Code has been ported to ARM64 Chromebooks, and runs just fine on my cheap little Samsung I bought a couple years ago. Along with the unix shell they've recently added to Chromebooks (wi
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by beat 8y ago
Every house I know with children has an iPad, either shared among the kids or one per kid if they can afford it. My spouse lives in hers... she has a Mac, but rarely uses it. I'm a power user. I have a battered 17" Macbook Pro t
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by beat 8y ago
They're probably leaving for home, or for other cities where they have connections. The idea of an entrepreneur taking off from the hottest startup climate in the world to another country, where they don't speak the language, may
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by beat 8y ago
That's not art? The whole point of art is to make someone feel something . And a big part of getting people to feel is playing on familiarity - for example, how much rock music can be traced directly or indirectly to Chuck Berry? Al
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by beat 8y ago
In his book, Andrew Yang points out that one of the major factors damaging Social Security right now is a sharp rise (like a doubling) in disability cases. And the amount of people on disability maps directly to areas of economic depression
920.
by beat 8y ago
Ah, now I'll have steeds for my robot army! We won't win the war, but we'll look awesome.
921.
by beat 8y ago
Altering your vote after the fact is not the actual problem, though.
922.
by beat 8y ago
And the solution to the flaws of butterfly ballots was the proliferation of insecure, dangerous touchscreen machines. Screw that. Give me a well-designed paper ballot.
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by beat 8y ago
The part I don't like is the printer. They're woefully unreliable devices. Having been an election judge, handling a bunch of flaky tech in polling places is the last thing the poll workers need. They have a lot to do already. In
924.
by beat 8y ago
All politics is identity politics. (And the politics of thinking that "identity" is for those people is privilege politics.) But that said, there's a distressing tendency for the "coastal elites" to sneer at the m
925.
by beat 8y ago
And how do you propose we do that?
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by beat 8y ago
So what if they can be trained to install solar panels? Are there going to be gobs of new solar panel installation jobs in their hometowns where the coal mine closed ? This is a huge part of the problem. The brightest and most ambitious ge
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by beat 8y ago
You don't know anything about his "hand-wavey logic", or you'd know right away that it's not "320 million Americans". It's only adults from age 18-65 (or whenever they choose to retire to Social Secur
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by beat 8y ago
I'm not worried. I've been in this industry for 25 years now, and seen multiple technical revolutions. (Back in my first serious job, we were hand-rolling streaming data protocols with lex and yacc on raw sockets! There was no ssh
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by beat 8y ago
We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and ou
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by beat 8y ago
Sure. Software is essentially creative work. I'm not worried about our industry. I'm worried about what our industry will do to other industries.

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