Misc

Story hints at the lies tech companies tell...

"The 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run depicts a dystopian future society where life must end at the age of 30. So, it's a world that kind of resembles today's Silicon Valley, where the NY Times reports that the median age of workers is 29 years old at Google and 28 years old at Facebook. The report that technology workers are young — really young — comes on the heels of other presumably-unrelated stories that Silicon Valley execs can't find enough skilled workers and no one would fund Doug Engelbart in the last four decades of his life. On the bright side, at least old techies don't die in Silicon Valley — they just can't get hired."

You can't have it both ways. Hire some old guys.

Article complains that book prices fluctuate. Why is this a bad thing? The economic fallacy is that there's a true price for books.

Norther abolitionists rejected peaceful renunciation of slavery in the south.

"It was not stubborn and evil Southern plantation owners, as the Official History contends (always without a single quotation or any evidence).  “The best people of the North showered praise on a fanatic [John Brown, who had already murdered women and children in Kansas] who believed that ‘without the emission of blood, there is no foregiveness for sin.’”"

Apparently they wanted punishment, not freedom.