Sparkle-san

Software, especially open-source has an over-representation of people that identify as LGBTQ. Brendan openly signaled that he thought a good subset of his employees did not deserve the same rights as others. I don't see how he could have been an effective CEO after doing that.

Personal liberty and freedom also require people to be free from economic coercion so that we can exercise those rights. Corporations have an asymmetric amount of power and we should stop anthropomorphizing them.

We peaked in the early 00s with warez key generators featuring banger synth tracks.

Are they really competing if they can't have a lower price than Amazon?

Because it's monopolistic and hinders other competitors from entering the marketplace which harms consumers in the longterm.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I agree with him that systems level thinking is a skill that will only get more valuable and he seems quick to dismiss low-level details. I think the best practitioners will be those that can handle both high-level and low-level thinking.

If it's anything like Independence Pass or Trail Ridge Road, it's definitely scary while driving too.

He "argued" a lot of things over almost 2 hours and very few of his arguments felt particularly cogent nor did they inspire confidence. Neither did the fact that he allegedly doesn't know his own zip code or phone number.

The evidence doesn't seem to bear this out. Texas has punitive laws around drug use and also plenty of drug users.

The Singapore model is also to be a 750km^2 microstate island. American laws around drugs have always been punitive and you could fit Singapore inside your average county.

That sounds like you were shaped by your upbringing. And honor itself is subjective and shaped by the social context it exists in. I don't believe killing to maintain honor is moral and there are millions of people out there who do because of the context they exist in. Likewise, I do not think it is honorable to make prisoners suffer (such as from excessive heat) when it's something in your control while others do because they were raised to believe that once you have wronged, your own worth as a human is diminished.

As humans, we have the capacity to hold multiple concepts like honor and contextual awareness at the same time when adjudicating a crime. Someone who stole to feed their family when they were in a dire situation should not be given the same sentence as someone who stole for personal gain. Our ability to acknowledge complex situations and deal with them also separates us from animals.

For a site populated by people that deal with complex technical systems on a daily basis, the idea that systems also exist and shape our outcomes in every day life seems to frequently be a foreign concept.

That is something that presently happens. So instead, let's improve the conditions of both the outside world and prisons.