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I've gotta admit: hats off for this clever hack.

What else would be more important to maximize than happiness?

Means of getting happiness are a different discussion, and what happiness is might differ from person to person. But why would you e.g. accumulate more money or power if it didn't bring you any happiness?

Redis has proven to be a very flexible to use and very easily to deploy piece of software. Muchos gracias.

Why not use Varnish? POST messages of 500 bytes could easily be rewritten / proxy'd to GET requests. That might not be 100% restfull but seems like a lot less work. On our production environment Varnish always responds in less then 2 ms. Even on my development VM I never see response times > 5 ms. It has all the other requirements they state.

Perhaps I'm prejudiced because Varnish has proven to be such an awesome caching mechanism (we still use Redis as a key/value store), but this seems like NIH.

Over here in the Netherlands, that is not true. The SP (Socialist Party) is on the left end of the political spectrum and is pretty anti EU.

I'm not opposing this idea, but I'm not sure it would have helped in the VW case. There were some people (engineers? Managers?) who were cheating and they knew that what they were doing was wrong. I don't believe a license would have changed that.

Totally agree about the Mona Lisa, but I just needed an iconic piece of art that everybody knows ;)

You might want to see elephants in the wild, or the Mona Lisa or just go surfing or whatever. I really don't understand this mindset.

Don't get me wrong: I like working. But the bottomline is that I'm working to live. I'm not living to work.

There are a lot of people outside of the US, and most of them aren't using either Bing nor Yahoo. Over here in europe, google is still king and I think that in Asia it's Baidu. I don't want to downplay the successes of Bing, Yahoo or Baidu, but looking globally Google is still pretty much uncontested.

The quests and the voice acting are epic too. Best RPG I've played in ages.

Over here in the Netherlands, part time working is pretty normal. I've been working four days a week for a couple of years now and I can really recommend it. Perhaps you will be a little bit less productive, but definitely not 20%.

If you can handle it financially, just do it.

How long can you go on claiming that a war is not "conventional"?

The Vietnam war started 60 years ago. The US military still struggles with the same guerilla tactics as in 1955.