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It is interesting that Western Sahara never developed piracy enterprises similar to Somalia. Is it some combination of: * stronger government control from Morocco than Somalia has …

"Dean and Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are starting Discovery Loop, an independent publicity benefit corporation in which Google will be an investor and cloud provider.: Ki…

I found it worthwhile and interesting. I'm not in deep with proxies every day and have never had to profile performance like this. The writing was very comprehendable to me and the…

Normalize usage of "have been granted a limited license for" instead of "own." The word "own" implies all manner of things that don't exist for things like Xbox games, Kindle title…

> Nolan could have shot it on anything he wanted, and he chose the less convenient way, because that is his process. Kinda. There are also interesting technical reasons. From my la…

The upper level of YouTube creators use direct product placement in their videos. This is direct content and ad integration that could be part of the content delivered via RSS as o…

> lose the ability to control the feel of the post. Agreed, rss was popular with people who wanted to decrease noise. > RSS also kills monetization, since you can't have ads This w…

On the bright side it isn't growing and is down from the pandemic-era 132% of GDP. (Although maybe that was because GDP shrank rather than any change in fundamental debt.)

There is a nine box chart with x-axis of doctrine or how it is used and y-axis of structure; each axis has three values, purist, neutral and radical. For the purist in doctrine and…

Ukraine war inspired school safety subsidiary of Mithril Defense of Austin, TX. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/28/school-sho... https://www.campusguardianangel.com/…

1. This CEO is a Canadian. 2. We already have a gerontocracy. Tying income to vote-weight just solidifies the problem since most people earn more as their career progresses. 3. An …

What sort of interesting actuators are used that people might not commonly think of? (I'm thinking of interesting solutions like the JWST's mirror actuators [0].) 0. https://hackad…

I think the reasoning is similar to why Amazon notification emails are very generic: user data is used for various purposes that a growing number of users and 3rd parties have conc…

Failures also have lots of valuable information. There was a recent Complex Systems podcast about efforts to glean pharma trials. https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/rux…

Its amazing to see this beast and think that all the firey stuff isn't the primary energy source (although totally necessary to pushing the mass out the back fast enough). The reas…

It might be helpful to describe gravitational relationships with human generational terms of parent-child, grandparent-grandchild, sibling, cousin, etc. So the Sun is the Moon's gr…

My lay person understanding is that supplemental creatine screws with a common lab test to screen for kidney problems. Let your physician know if you are taking any supplements so …

> Do you have any aircraft on mind that can unfold its wing while flying? XB-70 Valkyrie

Yeah, this is the first place my mind went with it. Aside from gate size category, folding wings could tighten up an overall airport like an aircraft carrier. Return to human-scale…

As well as find has an -exec param to perform things one at a time or all with the same command by using a slash semicolon or a plus sign respectively: #order files from different …

find print0 with xargs 0 is such an awesome combination. One day I'll remember to use it instead of piping into while read ln; do ...

Out of the gate, Canada and the US share 1 as country code and includes entities that aren't countries like Globalstar (Mobile Satellite Service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…

Her family had been in Egypt for 250 years, that's a long time for genetic admixture. Otoh, Continuing the tradition established by previous Egyptian dynasties, the Ptolemies engag…

This is something I wasn't aware of that is fascinating. The ph balance of the rebar's environment determines the progression of oxidation. There was a guy in the 1920's who observ…