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Whiplash, even though it’s about music and arguably a cautionary tale

There’s a whole chapter in the popular mathematics book “How to Not Be Wrong” by Jordan Ellenberg that covers successful lottery strategies and the math behind them. As I recall fr…

I’m guessing DMs were the real loot. The public display with the BTC diversion validates any DMs that were stolen. Otherwise blackmail targets could deny them.

What is the best way to have careful, deep, written discussions among distributed teams? Are there tools meant for this? Would something like a BBS work. If so, are there good mode…

The apartment complex they’re talking about in the article is (educated guess, used to live there) one of the nicest and most expensive in the country. It’s overlooking the Saigon …

I read an article years ago about how urban design in China post-Tiananmen has deliberately incorporated features that prevent mass protests. Narrow, labyrinthine alleys are hard t…

Xinjiang is an autonomous region, too. Tibet has been thoroughly “Hanified,” though you’re right that it hasn’t been as dramatic as in Xinjiang. The same is true for other ethnic m…

The article doesn’t touch on it much, but the palm oil industry basically runs on slave labor, too.

Or perhaps it could be a cooperative relationship where neither side has to fear?

Having worked in a meat processing plant, I can assure you that no humans would want to eat anything that goes into "rendering" for use in pet food. I'm not talking about offal, tr…

Finally -- I'd been driving myself nuts for about two years trying to figure out the title to the Sturgill Simpson song "Turtles All the Way Down."

WeChat is the only viable option in China because no one else is allowed to compete. It's a bloated piece of crap that has borderline become an OS within an OS. "In WeChat, everyth…

The post fails to mention that WeChat is protected from competition against other major global apps. If Google, Facebook, et al, were allowed to operate freely in China, WeChat wou…

This would suck for people who like to use their own cards to build rewards points and then get reimbursed.