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This is false. Can you cite a source for the idea that the 30-year mortgage was "founded" on the idea of appreciation? The thirty year mortgage was introduced to reduce the housing…

I did not know option + shift + hyphen produced an em dash. I've always used a double hyphen as a stand in -- as I did just now. LLMs don't do it and I haven't been accused yet. Th…

True but I would also caveat that it may have been an open economic question back then (I don't know the state of the debate) and the personal-economics of slavery are unmistakable…

In moments like these I'm reminded of all the people who have committed suicide due to billing errors. This is completely unacceptable. These sorts of errors must _never_ happen.

Is the direction of the pelicans encoded in your prompt? Curious why they are all left to right with the exception of terra xhigh.

Very cool project. Next they should create a database with SQL. Querying my database's database with my database's SQL's SQL would be trippy.

Uh, they spent hundreds of billions to get their flag ship products blocked by a democratic body with no possibility of recovering their capital except by concession of the people'…

I love the "year of the linux desktop" meme but even so I feel compelled to say it. Year of the Linux desktop?? You don't need a new machine if your new OS uses 1/4 of the resource…

They've got mine... Fly to Canada and your face gets scanned. I forgot this event and was surprised, walking through an American airport flying to another domestic location, that m…

> Rayforce is a library you link, not a server you deploy. The C API is small enough to wrap from any language with an FFI. I'm familiar with large-scale, commercial, client-server…

You can test this. All of them identify slavery as the root cause. Gemini says: > The U.S. Civil War (1861–1865) was fought primarily over the institution of slavery, specifically …

> The rise of autonomous vehicles and technologies like hyperloop may make a major difference to the way we travel around cities. Harvard University Professor of Economics everyone…

This should be read sarcastically. Its an idiom in the US. You state something you view as obviously true while qualifying it with "maybe - just maybe". Its commonly said in a come…

I assume based on the content of these comics you'd like to punish him. You don't have to carry this weight. Let it go. It's been 25 years.

These sorts of articles have no value. The author is a "media entrepreneur". Being forced to read his opinion intermixed with out of context pull-quotes is not a good use of anyone…

That is an unfair characterization of Zig. The OP correctly points out: > Function signatures don’t change based on how they’re scheduled, and async/await become library functions …

I agree. For my blog I don't apply CSS and prefer to let the browser's reader mode perform the styling for me. But there are categories of application where that is not acceptable.…

If your only target is web then there is no benefit other than a reduction in complexity. For example, a "row" is not just a " " tag. Its a div which horizontally fills its contain…

Are there native frameworks which use XHTML? Regardless, a document language being used to construct complex, interactive GUIs is incidental complexity. XHTML can be a compilation …

I really like these projects but missing from them is genericity. If you're taking the time to build a WASM app in Rust it would be nice if that app could compile to something othe…

I'm talking specifically about this phenomena[1]. I wasn't agreeing with the GP that these policies are "oppressive". I'm only informing you that these states are not experiencing …

Both California and New York have shrinking populations according to Wikipedia. And even if the estimates are wrong and they do have growing populations you still need to consider …

> There may be an argument for leaning less on code review. When code is expensive to produce and is likely to stay in production for many years it's obviously important to review …

Fair enough!

I can tell you precisely why foreign Toyotas (especially certain models) are more reliable that whats typically sold in the US. No electronics and parts which operate based on phys…