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From the Wikipedia article about the NSF: > With an annual budget of about $9.9 billion (fiscal year 2023), the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic researc…

perhaps the delta between offsets

Spam isn't the only challenge of going self-hosted and it's cool to tie into an existing ecosystem for identity. Also it's pretty neat that people can engage outside of your websit…

I read "with a fake mustache" as just another way of saying "in disguise," not that it literally looks like a mustache

For me it is lovely because it exploits the fact that the order does not matter mathematically, but it matters in our heads. Multiplication commutes (a fact pointed out by everyone…

William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" https://faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings%20and%20doc...

In particular, I wonder how people set up their health insurance while on these epic bike tours. It makes sense that costs are minimal, you can have savings, etc. but insurance is …

It's possible to weld an aluminum frame but you'll have to heat treat it, at which point it's no longer a simple and cheap operation. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/To-the-Point-Hea…

when a post enters the second chance pool, the timestamps of the post and comments get rewritten. if you hover over a timestamp you can see its original value.

only one of the vp candidates has a dossier like this

As the other commenter says, you can get pretty granular with the permissions. If you want to go even further, you can build a Cloudflare Worker that performs exactly the request t…

If you recall, the original contention was that "You cannot make money off of people who are starving." Clearly you can—in the short term, and enabled by violent coercion, as you'v…

Do you understand the difference between starting an engine and keeping it running? I'm referring to northern wealth btw. > Where were the industries in the South? Where were the i…

Slavery created the wealth that made industrialization in the north possible, and was the basis of the economic machine that you speak of. You've reduced slavery to a parenthetical…

Indeed the arrangement is violent and enforced with terrible violence, and in no way is this incompatible with profits.

You can force starving people into unfair arrangements where the choice is between getting screwed or dying of hunger. You can use the existence of starving people as a threat to k…