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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Kasei

if you enjoyed that, i very much recommend this work of historical fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127938747-you-dreamed-of...

> * The controllers have a custom port to connect, and a little magnet-looking thing next to it the thing next to the port looks like an optical sensor to me.

the company isn't gone. vista is likely getting wiped out and the lenders will own the business.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913 possibly a populist move by erdogan, depending on who you ask.

Justice https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=0

yes, as further exemplified by how difficult it is to raise social-media-free children. their entire social circles are on those platforms.

> Basically, Lebanon had 30 years to figure out how to build basic infrastructure like a proper electrical grid and production (from 1990, the end of the civil war to present). Ins…

yeah, this seems fake as hell. the coincidental timing, the clumsy on-the-nose nature of this incident, the "perp" calmly letting the guy take video of his (paper?) license plate..…

oh, like a series of tubes. i've heard of those before.

Soros is an American citizen. Thanks to a conservative SCOTUS decision, he apparently has every right to exercise political free speech via cold hard cash. Are you going to say any…

helpful, thanks. seems like it still needs an extra step. i was hoping that the paprika app had this native functionality so you can scan right into the app (i'm not a tech guy but…

yeah, i saw that. i'm interested in how to transcribe paper recipes. i have a lot of cookbooks that i under-utilize at time of meal planning b/c they're captured in a "dumb" format…

how do you get cookbooks recipes into the app? manual transcription or something easier / more efficient, i hope?

correct. and to continue the reasoning, we experience this as bureaucratic inefficiency because the inspectors / regulators / etc are chronically underfunded relative to the growin…

has it...?

$6,000 / 0.04 = $150,000. in other words, if OP had saved $150,000 and was withdrawing 4% per year, they would have the same $6,000 as what the app is generating. the analogy is im…

a modern version of escape velocity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_(video_game)

perhaps, but those things are related. the necessity of live human interaction must have created regular feedback loops that arrested extreme user-unfriendly cost saving measures. …

i appreciate the challenge this offers compared to wordle. NYT's spelling bee has a feature that i think you should consider implementing: a button and/or key press (e.g. space) th…

this is even worse than what you originally wrote.

> The rush to validate the gay rights movement has pushed people far beyond their comfort zone, and the culture war has put pressure on people to assert their allegiance to the cam…

yes. isn't this place supposed to be strongly moderated to prevent this kind of garbage?

you use the word "lie" here with loose abandon and with astounding confidence in your ability to infer motivations of every single member of a massive and complex system of public …

FTA: "Since the turn of the millennium, the prosecution of white-collar crime has plummeted—but this should not imply a surge in moralism among our leading capitalists. After the a…