Readit NewsIndeed. Things get particularly ludicrous when you hear people saying that Communism or something like it is the only way to avoid damaging the planet; there was no pollution like Communist pollution, and the Left was hostile to the first Earth Day -- it felt too much like Hitler.
I've heard the expression "watermelons" applied to a lot of this: people who are Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
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That the counterculture and the Communists were actively trying to make us lose a war? The author of this discusses real problems with the US -- situations like Guatemala, where we backed a feudal aristocracy, or Iran, where we set the country back considerably by helping overthrow Mossadeq -- and not just conspiracies carried out by our enemies.
Thinking about the meaning of "empire", I wonder if it would've been better for the US to have made various outright annexations after WWII. Not having to deal with an independent local government, or with self-interested local elites, makes things clearer and easier; the US's interventions in El Salvador or Guatemala would've been significantly less nasty if they had begun with annexation and the extension of domestic policies like EITC, Social Security, and property tax...
While there is certainly no “one size fits all” approach, focusing on these essential behaviors will improve both a board’s likelihood of choosing the right CEO—and an individual leader’s chances of succeeding in the role."
Somewhat self serving for the authors research/advisory company IMO and surprisingly non specific based on the confidence of the headline
"I say, Langley, HBR is pure bosh. They've no respect at all for proper breeding, and their attitude towards Mr. Spencer's impeccable theories is shocking, really."
You'd think they'd disparage education, money, and connections, instead of inborn character and aristocratic bloodline... (Unless, of course, you _do_ need education, money, and connections, and they want some safer strawman to knock down.)
The Black Hills (a small mountain range) were ceded to the Sioux by treaty. We were all well and good with it until gold was discovered there. Then the US government stepped in, claimed the Black Hills, and forced out the Sioux (the descendants of the survivors live on the Pine Ridge Reservation southeast of the Black Hills, a stretch of land "worthless" for agriculture or valuable natural resources).
Because power, not righteousness, is the true path to victory.
(Seriously, read Snyder's _Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning_ for how Hitler saw the US as a role model.)
where are the genes ?
The hard part about coding is the problems that aren't in the code. Doing research, setting up environments, understanding platforms, dealing with crashes, dealing with crappy tools, debugging, understanding other people's code. None of this is taught by isolated sandbox games like this. Sandbox games might teach some very useful analytical skills, but it's pretty far from coding.
The only thing you really need to get kids coding is to give them the tools needed to do interesting naughty things. Many of the programmers I know learned to code at an early age by hacking games to cheat against their friends. Reading text was never, ever a problem, but the disillusionment of finding out that coding doesn't involve pretty foolproof user interfaces might have been.