dvanduzer

Why do you think understanding math requires hard work?

Hail Eris

We must act now, and let the billionaire class play the Most Dangerous Game. It's our only chance of survival!

$ whois a1.6z.com

(arxiv.org is not archive.org if someone wants to fix the title. both are absurd creations that can't possibly exist, though.)

I found Spinoza and Wittgenstein comprehensible. I've found many other philosophers not so. My comment is not satire.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of the most accessible pieces of philosophy ever written. I recommend it.

For an even more accessible view into Russell and Wittgenstein, and well, life the universe and everything: logicomix.com

On what basis can you compare a writer/editor from GMG with the private equity group that purchased his employer?

Are you saying that we can't trust his motives and competence, because he was fired?

Barstool is referenced more than once in the piece, but not directly by name. Deadspin did not fail, it was murdered.

And I know you aren't saying it directly, but this really shouldn't be about The Left and The Right. The problem is about punching up versus punching down.

A five minute outage of the point-of-sale system during the lunch rush can easily cost even the smallest of restaurants several hundred dollars.

True, most websites do not have this problem, because most websites do not drive revenue like that. There are plenty of use cases where you need five nines, but only within limited not-24/7 time windows.

Website: Help me relate this to the Web of Trust

Yes, that is the core thesis of the article.

For the last 30 years, that tiny fraction (0.1%, correcting what I assume was a typo/misread) has seen their overall share grow.

Thirty years ago, that 90% possessed 35% of the wealth. Today, that 90% possesses 20% of the wealth.

The 9.9% near (but not at) the top has maintained their wealth over the last 30 years.

The culture problems of this tier of American society may not be as obvious to you, but I assure you, the answer to your question is yes.

Was the lesson that there's a fortune to be made in software maintenance?