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> Talking about “thousands of tonnes” of nuclear waste is comically misleading when you realise how tiny the volume is. You’re mixing mass and volume here. From what I can tell, th…

We have all lost functionality of a device we paid for after an update. You can’t fault a user for avoiding it. It’s the root that should be addressed.

This was genuinely innovative and intriguing. Did the numbers just not work out for manufacturing or some other thing get in the way?

Having representation based on land/physical space will increasingly be seen as absurd. Maybe we will have “youth reps” in the future. Or reps based on other organizing group (hunt…

Share yours! I use this as a bookmarklet to grab the front page of the new york times (print edition). (You can also go back to any date up to like 2011) I think they go out at lik…

I was incorrect here. The letters were all from december 61 to jan 62.

You are absolutely right! The couple from 62 are correct.

They had a long history of correspondence. The preceding letter is archived and you can probably get a copy. ( https://bracers.mcmaster.ca/79128 ) > Jan 6/1962 Re nuclear disarmame…

If you’re really interested in his works and correspondence, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario holds the Bertrand Russell archives. Some stuff is online. Here’s a curated co…

This is like cable with extra steps ;) I think we are already seeing some packaged stream services and we will probably see more. It’s a lot of overhead to maintain a separate serv…

I think we have it backwards by attaching it to the life/death of the creator (or the works’ creation). People should be alive to experience the works they consumed in new and open…

In a weird quirk that must be a bug, you can watch the first season of the Good Place in French in the USA but not in Canada.

I mean this is already kind of the case with general search (eg google) as it is now.

> "Truly", we understand each other better and communicate faster ~ when we out speech draws from a a collection of words ~, idioms, and grammatical constructions familiar to the l…

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

This was the (corp) argument in Canada for allowing companies to expire gift cards. They no longer expire.

real inanity

I think that wordpress probably had a big impact on PHP's success. It's on 40%+ of sites. It was set up in a way for people to make modifications to actual code (or at least see). …

Interesting! As a continued hypothetical, it's interesting that the "No Smoking" permanently-lit sign is next to the seatbelt one. It's a weird contradiction: by being an electroni…

> Elon is trying to reinvent public transportation If done well, this should fix the most critical gap in public transit. You can move massive amounts of people via trains and buse…

ConfessionGPT?

I saw an example recently of a sort of “AI Codec” : A person has to send a message to a respected figure of authority. They organize their thoughts and requests into a clear and co…

Sounds like a (fusion) menu item. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-how-to-make-the-bes...

Fluoridated water? Nah. GLP water.