I watched studio's earlier demos of the game. The thing about procedurally generated worlds is that after a while they all feel the same.

I agree. Not every libertarian is crazy.
How about: "Support for neoclassical economics, popular among libertarians, got us 2008."

Or civic-minded programmers to write bots to do it.

"The wall of water would be as high as the fifth floor of Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield or the third floor of the downtown Eugene Public Library, according to the maps." http://www.opb.org/news/articl...

That's enough to dampen my spirits.
There has got to be an easier way to get rid of Springfield and Creswell!

I don't think they know how to frack at the bottom of the ocean. The subduction zone is under 2000+ meters of water.

According to usgovernmentspending.com, Washington State education budget for 2015 is $8.3 billion. MS is offering $28 million. As percentage, their offer is 0.34% of the state's education spend. Nice to have for sure, but hardly enough to call the shots on on state-wide programs and curriculum.

This article got me thinking about the history of vice. From Old Testament harlots to Summarian smugglers, has there ever been a time when our institutions like religion and government were not at odds with some kind of vice? How does an anonymous distributed market for illicit goods change things? It feels to me more like a footnote in history and not a game changer.

According to CE Pro Website, author of article is Jason Knott. According to LinkedIn, Jason Knott, Editor at CE Pro/EH Publishing, has a BA in Journalism from USC (1984). Also, from CE Pro's "About the Author" section: "Jason has covered low-voltage electronics as an editor since 1990. He joined EH Publishing in 2000, and before that served as publisher and editor of Security Sales, a leading magazine for the security industry." If The Onion wrote this article, the title might be:

          "Area man parlays journalism degree into low-voltage DC career, then hypes low-voltage DC".

On the plus side, marine systems will likely stay DC for the foreseeable future. Perhaps Tesla batteries will be a boon to yacht owners? At the very least, it would make for a better article.

IBM VisualAge. Its heir, Eclipse, is a worthy IDE. I got to watch the whole evolution. Eric Gamma and others in Zurich morphed the VisualAge Smalltalk IDE into VisualAge Java. Then Eric and Kent Beck morphed that into Eclipse. IDEs derived from Eclipse are still the shin dizzle, AFAIAC.

Learn to touch type.

I remember reading the original announcement and thinking "this is a big waste of money"

My knowledge of Greek economics doesn't go much beyond NPR, but the changes needed seem pretty straightforward:

1. Reform civil service
2. Aggressively prosecute tax fraud
3. Tax church assessts (i.e. church either make is assets poductive or sells them to someone who will)

An angry coalition leftists and iconoclasts might be pretty good at 2 of these things. Maybe all 3?

I read that state of the union speeches were a big thing under President Franklin Roosevelt. I don't feel the content of speeches has been important in my life time. Maybe the pageantry is important?

The only thing I remember from a SOTU is the hydrogen economy and a man on Mars. It feels like I could make money betting against SOTU pronouncements. So why all the fuss?

to open dev shops in more than one country instead of trying to colocate every exceptional programmer in the greater San Jose area.

Taking sides in politics is not inherently offensive. However, Fox News' excrable journalistic standards are.