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The solution here is to build more higher-density housing options. Tokyo has very affordable real estate because dwellings are appropriately-sized for dense urban lifestyles and ar…

I see the same sort of thing happening in housing, and I think it's because the nature of the thing has changed. Houses used to be for families; they were often quirky or strange o…

Correlation does not imply causation (but it does stare at it from across the room and suggestively waggle its eyebrows)

Perhaps just coincidence but I found it interesting to realise that buildings and animals followed a similar structural development trend: both started off with externally structur…

The Grayjay Android app (which I use regularly) has a "Recommended" tab under each video that provides anonymous recommendations based only on the video you're watching. I recall t…

I was thinking about how to solve this given that one of the primary problems is that of fast, global content distribution. I like the idea of paying people in crypto as part of a …

It seems that the US Government introduces a new bill of this form every few years; SOPA & PIPA, COPPA, CISPA, etc. Will governments (particularly the US government) simply keep at…

Looking at the bits on the disk with a magnifying glass and copying them onto a piece of paper with a pen :^)

I love the idea of such smaller communities and the "old web" style of interaction, but for me the issue is one of discoverability. How do I find and follow people? Does anyone sti…

>It's free, so why not join today! Evidently their passion for punctuation does not extend to the question mark.

Cargo van? No, car go "beep beep"

Ones I can predict based on my music knowledge: 2112 by Rush (interpreted in this case as a timestamp rather than a year) 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (get 2 whole mins for this one) 2 …

I have a similar desire for laws; they say "ignoratia juris non excusat", "ignorance of the law is no excuse", but that is only a fair rule if the law can reasonably be known. No-o…

I have a similar issue with Caprine, the desktop frontend for Facebook Messenger. I have not however messed with my datetime settings, not is it such a big issue that I have taken …

I just use domain forwarding to have my inbound emails to my custom domain address land in my plain old Gmail account, and outbound ones to forward to my domain. All the benefits o…

Anyone else read this headline as "Facebook parent company does a thing"?

It's also upsold as part of existing MS sales agreements which is why execs will buy it. Easier and cheaper than negotiating a new enterprise contract with an unrelated company eg …

I didn't even know chickens lived for 50 years, much less how big this one got over that time! :^)

Here in Victoria, Australia, we had similar emergency powers which were only valid for a couple of months. In practice, the government simply kept voting to extend its emergency po…

I've seen other posts here before with similar offerings such as Looking Glass; does this make use of GPU passthrough or does it use GPU virtualisation? I ask because my Linux mach…