You’re describing the original Athenian democratic system, Sortition. People were randomly selected for government, and as a result policies were truly representative of what people wanted. It was effective.

It was tried later in Venice and Florence, and it failed because it only selected from nobles, not everyone.

That sounds great. Let’s do that too!

Heart disease, strongly correlated with obesity, kills more Americans than anything else. These are life-saving drugs.

Wouldn’t be the first time.

Hi friend, this was just meant to be an introduction, as I get started blogging and sharing back some knowledge and lessons I learned along the way. I’ve never written a blog before (or much of anything!), and I’m sorry you didn’t find value in this.

I wasn’t intending to boast, but I can see how it came across. I just meant to say, “companies are trying to tell you that you need ‘XYZ’ to scale,” and at least at the size of business I ran, you didn’t need any fancy tech at all – we could have made do with a dead-simple setup: a single server running Go and SQLite. It’s something I wish I had known when I started.

I’ll take your feedback to heart and try to produce larger, more substantial posts to follow. Thanks for commenting.

Is it too late for, “I use nix btw”? I use it at home and for development.

I planned to focus this blog series on ol’ faithful (Debian), but I could definitely see writing articles on how to use Nix and OpenBSD if people find it helpful.

That is 100% how it should work. No taxation without representation.

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Forbidden boba

Sounds like something a Scorpio would say…

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Hey friend.

GW2 is a completely different game from the first one. No GvG, no RA, no more incredibly complex builds from combining two classes. I loved GW1 and really wished GW2 was “GW1, but you can jump now.”

Don’t forget Tubular on Android

Since when is Deepfake Musk a bigger scammer than real Musk? The man’s been selling “full self-driving” upgrades to Teslas for years, and they’re no closer to “full self-driving” now than they were at the start. Surely real Musk has scammed far more people.

are calling on [insert link to letter] health insurance companies

Someone needs to proofread these things.

I’ve probably played 100 hours of Oblivion and Skyrim and am sad to say I’ve never once completed the main quests…

I can get behind paintball as an Olympic sport.

Damn dude, touch grass.