It's a reasonable idea in a reasonable timeframe.

"TwitterFE is a read-only clone of Twitter's front-end that fixes many of my frustrations with the site's front-end engineering and creates a new platform for future third-party development. Any site could roll these types of improvements back into their core services. Twitter APIs are full-featured enough I can clone the Twitter front-end without creating yet another stand-alone Twitter-like site."

This is the defining line of torture: not some arbitrary comic book technique, but a psychological and physical fact: pushing another human being to the point where choice becomes unavailable to him or her. You can do this in any number of ways; it can take Agcorpse2 three seconds of electrocution or it can take two months of sleep deprivation, hypothermia and darkness. But the line it eventually crosses is the same line.

… and why we Christians have also been persecuted, so I think it's human nature. But religion and civil society are both about overcoming human nature through recognition of our collective failings.

That comment may light people's nuts on fire, but … yep.

"The Street's view of the world is fundamentally flawed. Banks are important to the economy because they're financial intermediaries. They connect savers with investors and borrowers. This is a vital function, but there's nothing magical about it. At any given time the world contains a vast pool of money that can be put to all sorts of uses. Financial intermediaries simply link the pool to the uses."