ticviking

What I find most interesting is how few of those stereotypes/archetypes are present in our media today.

I still know many of most of them, but they've been replaced as our economy and demographics change.

I'm still wondering how this precedent prevents parallel construction nonsense

Simply requiring an actual, physical filibuster would weaken it's power while keeping it as a check on excess or an option for a principled stand/PR stunt.

even 0.5% interest on recourse debt is fundamentally usury.

Our employers will revolt because we will either cost more or be slower.

The price of an developer is already very high compared to other skilled labor

“We must know our customers” The bank will take any approach other than having an account manager who knows each customer individually.

This is the biggest reason I make it a priority to bank locally and in person.

Generally it's worth talking to a lawyer about cases like this.

Ultimately "Show me the code" is the only standard that has ever worked for Open Source.

Give me code to reproduce an issue for people who are contributing as developers.

In North America its often considered "crippling" children to give them too much help. I've seen it repeatedly, with some families giving children 3 months after graduation to begin paying rent.

The other option is self-built.

But that's been roughly the way things have always been.

What's changed is the creation of a middle path of "built to sell" homes.

People who can independently produce food have a form of real power that is very hard to resist.

The measures used to keep various peasant and serf classes under control were so extreme in history because if they became able to exercise that power the social order was overturned.

I still see this in rural America. Guys show up and transfer the title on the car for an envelope of cash and a signature.

Same for livestock, butchering, services and so on.

And any time you decide to eff over anyone, you can and should expect resistance.

Because very few companies offer relocation. Living on welfare in a paid for trailer on land your ancestors lived on is much more appealing than moving without relocation for worse lifestyle in a rental in low wage work that will result in a lower effective income in a higher cost of living area.

People are often dumb, but they're not insane and over years they do respond to incentives.