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I was going to point out the same thing. At least in the UK, it's a bit of an urban vs rural, or maybe urban vs village, divide. Small communities can rely on names; larger politie…

I rather like "man of many turnings", on the page. The problem I have with Claude's version - same as Lattimore, in fact - is that it's really hard to read aloud; the rhythm just d…

What's this unavoidable YouTube video that activates on-scroll? I that doesn't become a design pattern, because it's horrible.

You are correct, and deserve the up votes. I hadn't seen the actual photo. At the same time... How dumb is that? As the commenter above points out, $5-10B would be a drop in a buck…

I believe that would mean 5- year or 10- year , as in the terms of the bonds. No amount disclosed.

I agree that attestation is the biggest deal. My current hope is that the upcoming GrapheneOS phones will be able to achieve that. It's really up to a manufacturer being able to st…

Ben and Jerry's enshittification makes me sad. Interestingly enough, I was told when I visited the Vermont (original, and now theme-park-ish) plant that they still use the original…

Eh. I've been working (at $job) with an electrician I will be thrilled to see the back of, and whom (the feeling is general) we will never hire again, and... The screws are aligned…

> it is imperative to study this molecule’s environmental fate and impact before pressing it into service. Yes, let's do that, this time. Sounds like a super-cool and useful molecu…

I'm with you on all of that. There is, nevertheless, a strong argument that IP protection (particularly for creative / "culturally significant" works) is too long . Twenty years - …

Not challenging your marketing presumption; I've noticed, and seen pointed out, the same thing. As a side note, years ago Häagen-Dazs was better (high milk-fat, etc) than the other…

> I like feeling every word as I read. I know what you mean. I don't typically sub-vocalize, but when I run across a particularly beautiful bit of prose I slow down in order to hea…

Absolutely. On the other hand, Russia's previous conquests / adventures (Chechnya; Georgia, 2008; Ukraine, 2014) were shrugged at by the west. It's wasn't insane to expect that tak…

Funnily enough, I am (was) an actor. Public speaking and telling stories are my jam. So... I do all that. I love making wacky analogies to help people understand complex systems. H…

Yes. Furthermore, when I write precisely - because it's an important subject (read: will cost the company money) where we must be on the same page - people's eyes glaze over, and t…

I have a friend whose dad finished his engineering career at SABRE (he retired some years before it shut down). According to him, the original concept wasn't far-fetched, but that …

Static (relatively, at least) battle lines? Think of WWI: you knew where the danger was, and where it wasn't. Not that I know anything in particular about this piece of military ja…

Add to all of that: this started as a war of conquest . Putin seems to have believed that Russian forces would quickly take Kiev, depose the government, and install a client regime…

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At least that would be honest....

I got that notification a few days ago: "Reserve your username!" Every username I tried - based first of all around my very-uncommon real-name" - that did NOT have numbers at the e…

Of course. Regions and cultures and families varied all over the place - and still do today. I wasn't trying to make any kind of universal claim, just explaining how our social gro…

If that's a serious question, it's because as printed scores are also communicating the game situation. It could be as simple as End of day three: NZ 558 - Eng 354 That's factually…

I'm of an age to have grown up like that, and one of the real drags was having to take my 3-5 year-old sibling along on whatever activity the rest of us were up to. ("But mom, we'r…