Jacob Stern: "'There’s a real culture … that if you’re not on your deathbed or you’re not going to the hospital, that you’re fine to go to work,' Rasmussen told me. 'If you’re sick, you should stay home. It seems like a no-brainer, but people are actually really resistant to that.'"
\n" }, { "id": "1633279035", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/10/03/1633279035.html", "title": "Many are searching for vaccine mandate loopholes. These are the people trying to stop them.", "date_published": "2021-10-03T16:37:15+00:00", "content_html": "Ashley Fetters Maloy: "I haven’t heard anybody call me back and say, ‘Yeah, I got out of it.’ Or ‘I decided to quit’"
\n" }, { "id": "1633278342", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/10/03/1633278342.html", "title": "The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing", "date_published": "2021-10-03T16:25:42+00:00", "content_html": "Greg Wilson: "Tools written in a more modern language (Rust) were no more reliable than those written in C."
\n" }, { "id": "1632927503", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/09/29/1632927503.html", "title": "The strange death of American democracy", "date_published": "2021-09-29T14:58:23+00:00", "content_html": "Martin Wolf: "The only significant players who have been punished are those who resisted or condemned the coup."
\n" }, { "id": "1632925524", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/09/29/1632925524.html", "title": "Kill the Bill", "date_published": "2021-09-29T14:25:24+00:00", "content_html": "Josh Marshall: "But it certainly means all the self-styled 'moderates' they’re working with now will go down to defeat – both because of primaries but also just as the natural consequence of a Democratic rout. More business friendly Democrats in blue seats will also get replaced by more progressive members."
\n" }, { "id": "1630550384", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/09/02/1630550384.html", "title": "I was a combat interpreter in Afghanistan, where cultural illiteracy led to U.S. failure", "date_published": "2021-09-02T02:39:44+00:00", "content_html": "Baktash Ahadi: "Before long, U.S. troops will be back in Afghanistan, and for the same reason we invaded in 2001 ..."
\n" }, { "id": "1630299290", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/08/30/1630299290.html", "title": "Force, Future and Thinking Seriously About How Governments Fall", "date_published": "2021-08-30T04:54:50+00:00", "content_html": "Josh Marshall: "The control exercised by an occupying military or a state is always an interplay between current force and force played out into and expected in the future."
\n" }, { "id": "cleverness", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/08/05/cleverness.html", "title": "Clever Vs. Insightful Code", "date_published": "2021-08-05T16:52:35+00:00", "content_html": "Hillel Wayne: "Regardless of the other merits of their argument, they’re all arguing from the perspective of an expert. Experts are more easily able to work around problems. This doesn’t mean their arguments are wrong, nor does it mean they shouldn’t rely on their insight. It’s just something we have to be conscious about."
\n" }, { "id": "the-box", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/06/13/the-box.html", "title": "On Marc Levinson and His \"The Box That Changed the World\": Hoisted from the Archives", "date_published": "2021-06-13T03:43:43+00:00", "content_html": "Brad DeLong: "The world is certainly not 'flat,' as the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman believes. But, in an economic sense, it is extremely small for non-perishable, non-fragile goods. Every modern factory with outgoing volume large enough for container traffic and a suitable loading dock is next door to every modern warehouse with similar features."
\n" }, { "id": "1623296834", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/06/10/1623296834.html", "title": "Just mention “WWDC” in a blog post this week to unlock it.", "date_published": "2021-06-10T03:47:14+00:00", "content_html": "Manton Reese — because I once asked an acquaintance Douglas Hofstadter's to ask for the definition of recursion and let me know the reply.
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