by Didact | Apr 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Vox tells his critics to put up or shut up in spectacular fashion: Back when I first responded to NK Jemisin’s various attacks and lies in my inimitably calm and factual manner, the SFWA writers reacted with much the same combination of outrage and vitriol...
by Didact | Apr 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apparently some rich dude who owns a basketball team and its franchise possibly let his wealth get to his head a bit: V: I don’t understand, I don’t see your views. I wasn’t raised the way you were raised. DS: Well then, if you don’t...
by Didact | Apr 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am hardly the world’s foremost theological scholar. I have no doubt that older and wiser men like Vox and Carey could make me look like seven different degrees of idiot when it comes to understanding what the Bible (and the Talmud, for that matter) has to say...
by Didact | Apr 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
In honour of the single most hated day of the year: Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Share on Telegram...
by Didact | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you’re annoyed enough by this whole Brandon Eich situation, you might consider switching away from Mozilla-provided web browsers completely, and start using Mozilla-based, but independently developed, browsers instead. Here is a small shortlist of some that...
by Didact | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Oh great, yet another snarky left-wing comic “genius” to replace the one that’s retiring: Colbert’s contract with Comedy Central, where he hosts The Colbert Report, runs through the end of 2014, the website notes, which would leave an opening...
by Didact | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
So Mozilla CEO Brendon Eich stepped down this week because of internal backlash over his political contributions to a group that supported a state-level ban on gay marriage: The decision to remove the man who invented the web scripting language JavaScipt did not sit...
by Didact | Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the more painful consequences of imbibing regular doses of Cold Hard Truth is that you find yourself actively questioning everything you were taught when growing up by those you love the most. As you get older and (hopefully) wiser, and as you continue down...
by Didact | Dec 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Jonny H. is weighing up the opportunities and the costs of a career in investment banking versus a career as an actuary: I am currently debating between becoming an actuary and an investment banker. The earnings ceiling as an investment banker is much higher (though...
by Didact | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Oh this just gets better by the day: The sign language “interpreter,” Thamsanqa Jantjie stunned millions of deaf people with his gibberish hand gestures at the Nelson Mandela memorial on Tuesday. But new developments about Jantjie’s violent past raise even more...
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