Social Security, the Pyramid Scheme This was first an extended comment on Facebook, and probably belongs here as much or more.A very conservative relative posted, ironically, a meme from Occupy Democrats about how Social Security is not
IETF White Supremacist Buddhist Statues What do you do when someone claims your photo from Tokyo might mark you a white supremacist?
Political Wise Restraints That Make Men Free "Freedom to" thinking tells us that the government should interfere as little as possible with the lives of its citizens, and let the market work itself out. "Freedom from" thinking tells us that government must interfere to remove impediments to liberty.
IETF ...as one who had authority [This post was started at IETF 104, and since IETF 105 is in a few weeks, I figure I'd better finish it.]There's an ongoing discussion in the HTTP community over what constitutes
Political Are Democrats "FOR" abortions? I saw a friend's mother post a somewhat slanted comparison of the party platforms, stating that Republicans are "FOR" "protection of the unborn", while Democrats are "AGAINST" this. The unstated implication was that
Political Medicare For All, Really Medicare For All has promise, but I'm not sure it's politically feasible in the USA. Maybe this is more feasible.
IETF IETF 101: Balance of Concerns There were many great conversations and much excellent work done last week at IETF 101 in London. As is so often the case lately, many of our decisions had to balance the intersection
IETF IETF 100: War for the Middle IETF 100 took place a few weeks ago in Singapore, and across multiple venues, there was one topic that surfaced repeatedly, and opinions vary so widely that we might almost consider it a
Political [Not] Kneeling in God's Country I've mostly stayed out of the whole "kneeling during the National Anthem" thing. But some things just tick me off, so I'm going to make a few comments. You are welcome
IETF QUIC and Streams In my previous post, I talked about why QUIC matters to the future of the Internet. I'd also like to look a little more closely at why it matters to HTTP specifically. Obviously,
Personal What kind of Architect? There's been an uptick in traffic around here lately, mostly because of people who know me at work or IETF getting exposed to my personal e-mail address on this domain. I joined Windows
IETF A QUIC Introspective In my long-ago last post on HTTP/2, I said that I would follow up with a discussion of QUIC and why I believe it's important. Real life has been unfortunately busy, but
IETF A QUIC retrospection on HTTP/2 You may have heard this term "QUIC" floating around the Internet, and not known what to do with it. Is it an adverb? An acronym? A bad pun? And what does
Political A Parable Let me tell you a story. Meet the Schmidts. They live in a semi-rural town, and between their jobs, bring in around $56,000/year. Grandpa Schmidt lives with them, and his pension
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