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This is because conservatives tend to have a unified and easily-articulated value system, whereas liberals tend to be more weakly organized and band together mostly as a reaction to conservatism. This applies to both real-world and software-world politics.So we’ll start with an operational definition of conservatism,
Notes From the Mystery Machine Bus I've Spent the Past Eight Years (Starting…
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The late poet and musician Leonard Cohen may have been our greatest contemporary commentator on this theme. In his song “Anthem,” he sings: “Ring the bells that still can ring,31 forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. It’s where the light gets in.”
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
To refresh your memory, the five members of the NGL family are ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane, and natural gasoline. Each member of the family has a quite different personality, and each is used in different markets for widely different purposes. However, they come from the same two sources. Most NGLs come from the processing of natural gas. But not all. Some NGLs are produced from crude oil refineries. When produced from refineries, NGLs are sometimes called liquefied petroleum gases, or LPGs, the same term used in the early days of Warren and Phillips. Whether the original source was a gas processing plant or a refinery usually makes no difference; when the products get to market, they are essentially the same stuff.
The Domino Effect
E. Russell Braziel
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