Eric S Raymond, aka “ESR”, has inaugurated a project to develop an open source UPS platform [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7848]after making some major gripes in this post [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7839]. He’s even managed to add in firearms ethics and antifragility [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7863]as part of the discussion. But never fear, amongst serious engineering and serious geekery, there’s still humor [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7923]. > Somebody using the handle JeffyPoooh (yes, ‘ooo’) l…
That time of week again.  And a couple Instagram shots: > A post shared by Sara Underwood (@saraunderwood) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BfT-LIGHcSP/?utm_source=ig_embed] on Feb 17, 2018 at 12:58pm PST > A post shared by SIERRA SKYE (@sierraaaskyee) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BcAw0W0njji/?utm_source=ig_embed] on Nov 27, 2017 at 12:21pm PST Last, but not lea…
Taleb is an amazingly smart and observant guy. His book on antifragility is, in my opinion, a must read, and maps to observations that others have made about the long-term wisdom of choosing optionality over efficiency in the moment but being locked into one path. In the leadup to the publication of Skin in the Game, one of the chapters, on the intolerant minority [https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.z5ry4bucq] , was publishe…
You’ll notice I don’t spend a lot of time so far covering the legal wording of the 2nd amendment. Yes, it’s useful, but the point I’m trying to make, one that Ivan Throne brings up very explicitly in his recent post [https://darktriadman.com/2018/03/08/how-school-shootings-are-destroying-the-left/] , is that these are natural rights. To argue the law in any context but “no, that’s not what it says” is to accept that changing the law removes our rights. The 2nd amendment is an expression of a phi…
First, an excellent youtube speech (that incredibly offended the Democrats in attendance. Shucks. My heart bleeds…) I mentioned earlier [https://thelastredoubt.com/2018/03/lawyers-guns-and-money.html] that one justification, when entering a space that is someone else’s – a friends home, a town hall, etc. – then it is incumbent on me to follow the rules they set, and it is incumbent on them, given that predators and monsters exist, to take responsibility for a reasonable degree of protection.…