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1920's Prohibition was also quite supported by the local population, it was voted in... Anyhow OP's point is regarding the efficiency of prohibition, not about support.

Keep thinking that way if you wish, but do not complain when your power users leave and your website turns to shit. (related: not sure "impact" was the word you were searching for …

> while testing showed it produced more power and better emissions, people beta testing for me reported it felt 'too smooth How hard would it be to made that user-selectable? Becau…

> If you had a multi-day electric or gas outage in New York in mid-January, you'd see exactly the same thing happen. No: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American…

Talking about bad faith... you know you're replying in a thread about GitHub incidents where someone is blaming capitalism for that right?

...the first rule of Fight Club / Usenet is you do not talk about Fight Club / Usenet?

You know how many minutes I "spend molding [my] previous cover letter to the job description"? 15 minutes. If you spend more than that, you are clearly doing it wrong.

No? Madrid is about the same latitude as NYC. Paris is significally to the north of Montreal. London is about the same latitude as Calgary.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050107-00/?p=36...

If you think gender is confusing, maybe you should consider that the problem is *you*?

Everyone knows that Manhattan and London's City are wretched hives of scum and villainy, of course.

I wonder who you think are those "globalist elites" and why are you against them? (that's a rhetorical question, don't answer please)

> "Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. " That quote is discussed a length on this wonderful blo…

From my comprehension of Mad Men? You hire a PR firm to convince those investors and decision people, to sell them an idea instead of KPIs. It can go both ways, of course: Mad Men …

So the only solution to climate change is anti-capitalism. Got it.

> Quebec is in the process of making it difficult for anyone to attend English-language schools, Not true > and causing another round of people and companies to leave Quebec as the…

> People started a huge fight over whether the word "they" can refer to a single individual the other week. Link please?

Why are you trying to fight over what is the best for your kids? Both have obvious benefits: Grimm Brothers tales are still culturally relevant for a reason, even if you can probab…

TIL https://www.zophar.net/ still exists

Why woudn't studying philosophy not a passion project?

> There’s no more financial incentive to push these than to push Aspirin or Advil. lol https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ivermectin-demand-dri... > The website advertises cons…

The irony being that 20 (more like 25?) years Yahoo search was ripe for disruption... by Google :) Halt and Catch Fire [1] (As a nerd, I can say it's one of the few TV series that …