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> Cities have high property prices because they are extremely desirable. There is scarcity which mean those selling can reduce the set of candidates by pumping up the prices. Its a…

I've always considered the internet (in its current form) to be histories biggest book burning event. Hoarding rss feeds I often reached a point around 35 000 subs where the number…

Its not my area of expertise but.... There are so many corrupt non-profits to which one can make tax deductible donations. Would it be possible to reform/tweak/hack the [existing] …

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436

this is something between a joke and a thought experiment. function cason(x){ switch(x[0]){ case "movie": switch(x[1]) { case "name" : return "Interstellar"; case "year" : return 2…

yes, to the point that [say] 10% of the rentals are empty.

> Can you clarify what problem you are trying to solve with this proposal? Say we live in a town where we make all the decisions and our word is law. Our imaginary town needs 2 gar…

Its really simple. We should tax property AND rent to the point where it becomes unprofitable to hoard it for purposes of unproductive wealth extraction. Then change all rent contr…

Your thoughts are clear and interesting. It appears we've always had a ratio of 1, 2a and 2b with some collapses or perhaps even more illusive is the [slow] migration. Like paper g…

There is this joke where you greet someone on the street by raising your hand to them in front of your face so that they cant see who you are.

I didn't read the text but have a special approach for this type of writing: You click on user contributions, if/since there are to many talk page entries filter down to article sp…

Its not about me but about the system as a whole of course. Likewise, it isn't about you. You are not the one paying for everything, we all do. If we optimize for lack of purchase …

could make it build opml files by crawling the links for titles and feeds.

On irc complexity is a feature.

This was when people still had face to face exchanges by making sounds and gestures usually while sharing liquids. Making a friend was a big deal back then.

here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R5G5hTC7pc next quest

"oh our precious search deal" Where was the free and open source distributed search engine? "oh we cant support any protocol or any other technology! We don't want to be promoting …

https://jsfiddle.net/gaby_de_wilde/ye95zcao/29/

there are 3 parties: the end user searching for the content the webmaster or author of the content the search provider If I'm searching for something that I know exists and I cant …

The postal service can send a box with say 10 * 6 TB hdd quite fast. Say 2 days for delivery. 480 000 000 000 000 bits / 86400 sec = 5555.56 mbit/s And you can send as many boxes a…

Its nice to see the multinationals agree 30% is a decent taxation level.

Great stuff, I started doing this in 2006 but manually. I made an unofficial google toolbar for Opera[1] that (in the unreleased final version lol) also loaded the images from the …

I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU

Ah yes, the Petersonian masculinity without muscles.

haha, I looked at twitter for 5 min after it launched, I laughed really hard and closed the page. The thought process was something like "Oh, they've maximized unusability! I shoul…