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Right, and by "reachable" they mean it is theoretically possible to get to this board position through a normal (albeit obviously methodically chosen) series of moves.

The "projection" can be centered on any arbitrary point, actually. See https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/planets_webgl/GottPlanets.ht...

They already do. Example: https://www.tribpub.com/gdpr/baltimoresun.com/

For what it's worth, I find third-party logins (e.g. Spotify via Facebook) to be a nice convenience feature that I use quite often.

The real evil here is that the surcharges are "all on top of the price that regulators have agreed customers should pay for their electricity service." Utilities support basic huma…

Why are human missions so much more costly than robotic missions? Answer: Life Support. If our (very) long-term goal is to stake humanity's claim on other planets/asteroids/etc., t…

Thanks. Another example is the Dutch DigID: https://www.digid.nl/en/about-digid/

> "The Sola TS became concerned about the situation. However, because the Ingstad wasn’t showing automatic identification system (AIS) data, initially neither the Sola TS nor the t…

I will briefly add that Indonesian food is massively popular in the Netherlands ("East Indies" being a former colony). Rijstaffel [1] -- literally, "rice table" -- is a national sp…

They are, it's one of the reasons they [Nielsen] bought Arbitron back in 2013. The PPM devices use low-frequency tones encoded into the audio stream at the time of broadcast. https…

To add to this (and to refute a specific example brought up in the blog post): "learning ops" is not a way to reduce the complexity of software deployment. In fact, Docker exists s…

I'm really happy to see commute time in your list (among the other points). I'm a big believer in increasing quality of life by decreasing commute time, something which is increasi…

This question is actually on the ESTA form: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US-visa-form-ask-seemingl...

"The Super Bowl is designated a SEAR (Special Events Assessment Rating) level 1, an event that’s considered of national importance..." [1] Ultimate authority over law enforcement c…

If 'good enough' and 'usable' @ a price of 'free' is what's becoming ubiquitous, hasn't Mr. Skidmore just locked in on a new-ish market equilibrium?

This reminds me a lot of a thesis (sort of) from Peter Thiel's "Zero to One". He calls it The Contrarian Question: What important truth do very few people agree with you on? The qu…

In Delaware, 1209 North Orange Street is the address of over 200,000 businesses including Silicon Valley giants like Google and Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Tru…

At Maryland, both the Hinman CEOs [1] and QUEST Honors [2] programs would provide great reciprocal value for YC. [1] http://www.hinmanceos.umd.edu/ [2] http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/p…

"FedEx is still faster than the Internet" https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ Of course, the applications here are probably quite different -- this research grant may be more geared towar…

Hypothetically, could U.S. persons who were affected by this breach claim any sort of financial reprieve for future lost wages? I'd imagine those affected would not be very desirab…

I still believe that COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) is, overall, beneficial legislation that puts in place the minimum rules for protecting children's PII. As the…