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Bitcoin going to $1,000,000,000 per coin!
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san_jose_guy

someone made the prediction!

SJG

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Any Regrets, for those who have deliberately avoided marriage, or initiated divo
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san_jose_guy

The holidays of course are the hardest. Though I've never really been one for Thanksgiving, it still can be a sad time.

I really don't fault my ex-wife, or myself. I just see it…

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Basement Clubs
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san_jose_guy

We used to have in San Mateo one "Club-Anti". It was in the basement. I really liked it. I think the basement is a good and natural place for a strip club.…

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Oakland Ghost Ship Fire
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san_jose_guy

I had never herd of this place before, but I have always found lofts and communes interesting. I deliberately declined to look in to it as it was happening, saving the matter for when…

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OT: Computer Programming
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san_jose_guy

Want to talk about the languages, the books, and also compliers and run-time environments, editors, debuggers, and other utilities.

This stuff moves so fast, that it is hard to keep up. First I want to…

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started 7 yrs ago
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OT: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
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san_jose_guy

OT: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

Undoing the Demos:
Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (2015)
published by Zone Books

amazon.com

Brown goes into the work of economist Deirdre McClosky. I think this is the same person Gordon White talked about at length:

The…

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started 7 yrs ago
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Why Are So Many White Men So Stupid?
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san_jose_guy

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Sunday’s shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was one of the deadliest mass shootings in Texas state history. It comes only a month after the shooting massacre in Las Vegas, where another white man, Stephen Paddock,…

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OT: Economists, like Gary Becker
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san_jose_guy
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Slavery And The Family
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san_jose_guy

Reading Wendy Brown's "Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution "

In chapter 3 she is talking about Foucault and wanting to make adjustments. She talks a great deal about Aristotle, but she is citing Marx's…