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*full packing physics for the parachute! Frayed lines, tangling, dodgy mechanisms! The risk of plummeting to your account's demise.

It's pretty annoying that Gnome themeing tools, rather than developing and becoming better/more cohesive, were made totally irrelevant I can't quite understand how "Linux GUI, make…

...yeah, on the whole I can't imagine thinking that humanity's impact on birds overall has been a good thing Unless you really, really love pigeons

I mean that has got to be a sarcastic caveat, rather than a point against the probability of it happening

Why not just keep a bunch of rats and pump them with filth and antibiotics until it outpaces our known chemistries?

And a few million bucks isn't hard to come by when you're in control of an entire country Even if it's as poor as NK, the guy who commands it can have more material riches than mos…

Which is not small If you have one nuclear weapon, you can probably get away with setting up an enrichment framework to produce more without sweating too much.

I'd be less worried about Russia using a nuke directly as a state, and more about it doing what everyone feared in the fallout of the USSR collapsing. They've already demonstrated …

This is pretty common at other places - my PhD advisor was exasperated that a polymer chemist would get an A in Physical Chemistry II, when I had a national lab collaboration to wo…

Well this certainly could have saved us a news cycle a year or so ago

That's the difference between how people actually think about things versus how they think others do I'm pretty sure that only people who'd argue against the slur-switch are doing …

As undeveloped mentally as highschoolers are, they have years more development more than middleschoolers Middleschoolers are suddenly blasted with hormones, and are basically accel…

Dictated, but not read

I have some passive knowledge of seals as used by Japanese folk What determines the design of ones' seal as a foreigner? Just transliteration?

And perhaps nobody cared enough to log it, especially in the lower classes You just shrugged off opium dens, or moonshining, or whatever substances could be had. The demon liquor a…

I mean, yeah. It's like gun laws that prohibit having a joint whilst commit armed robbery or whatever - it's not actually trying to stop the behavior, merely empower the prosecutor…

It was an ABC prime-time show. It's fine for casual viewing It's not notable for being hyperdetailed. It's notable for being a wierdo spin on a noir.

> It tends to love passing other cars on the right Is it supposed to do illegal things? It shouldn't be so hard to ensure it obeys laws.

It's the old capitalist adage, "the pilot never goes down with the ship"

Because (1) they originally used the '' character. In ASCII, the cat is 'c'. Does it bother you that it doesn't turn around? Does it bother you that they aren't facing up/north? Wh…

$7k tends to be on the higher end, but it ends up fluctuating wildly When he releases a new version, people pay attention and donate. When he takes time to introduce fun features t…

For a general thing, the NYT profile of Zach and Tarn from DF being in the MoMA is great, but that was 2011: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-o... "Zach b…