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Thank you. Many say our institutions are underdeveloped but I think it takes a certain maturity of the society to be able to execute projects successfully. It's not perfect, but I …

I just found out about the controversy behind Super Size Me a few days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cw02ni/til_...

How is this obviously made up and devoid of substance l'esprit d'escalier-type story getting upvotes?

Accessibility is easily overlooked but in my opinion provides a much more direct and widespread impact than the mentioned ESG - and often provide value to more people than original…

It struck me as comforting to actually be able to post it all online without a major worry, I imagine a person of that age living with close supervision of their family can get ful…

Even John Carmack - an ultimate prototype for a nerd - has evolved into a CTO (and from the linked Fridman interview he sounds like a really good one). What is it about tinkerers b…

You mean https://www.raycast.com ?

The driver is most likely on multiple apps, and is doing rides there while the Uber one stays open so he can accept the cancellation fee when somebody less devoted than the parent …

Of course you can: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/hide-your-email-address-mai...

This is very consistent with customer service in The Netherlands - nothing is ever the fault of service providers, and you manage to convince them otherwise - you'll get nothing mo…

Where do you draw the line on "neighbor"? Somebody who lives in your general area, or somebody from the other side of the world?

This is new to me and I've been doing this very thing for a while (though not yet with an accident) - do you have a source for this?

Any mentions of the refresh rate? I've been waiting for a 4K/5K display that supports 120 Hz to pair nicely with my 2021 MBP, but it looks like the only available options so far ar…

How?

Client devices, I think - filtering that happens transparently and without an easy way to disable is just asking for problems - I couldn't deal with having to log in to the DNS man…

Neat, this helped me realize I haven't switched away from my provider's default DNS when I moved in, which is something I usually do. How to choose a DNS server? I usually just go …

17 days ago - effect of Americanization of Poland (or just extreme ignorance): https://twitter.com/DawidStys/status/1268097702807711745

Is there a more powerful political position he could have?

Nice! Interesting you were able to agree on licensing with PANTONE®, considering they sell a (very underwhelming) hardware device called CAPSURE™ that has a similar premise: https:…

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190928130035/https://fant.io/p...

Caution: spammy website, and this was back in 2014: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/warren-buffett-to-keep-bett...

Each of these could be hosted on postgresql.org: > Don't Do This: Mistakes we've made in licensing > Don't Do This: A case for considering MongoDB > Don't Do This: Handbook for soc…

Can you link to some of these materials?