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It's a surprisingly common error where someone picks up an old 35mm print and assumes it is somehow canonical... Besides whatever the provenance of these prints are (this gets comp…

you make it very clear that you have zero understanding of what republican democracy is in the United States.

English grammar also has features for expressing uncertainty, unreality, hypothetical, wishes, demands with uncertain outcomes etc. by use of the subjunctive mood. "If I were a bir…

I'm glad to see so much interest in devices like this. I hope they succeed. I own an Onyx Boox Tab Ultra, which I've been enjoying tremendously, and specs seem to compare favorably…

There is a lot that is wrong in this article. Broad overviews are useful to people new to a topic - this would only mislead and confuse people.

Agreed. It's an excellent book. But perhaps a little long if you are purely interested in computer history and want an introduction in a shorter volume. I recommend these two: http…

Not sure about academic history, but in a single volume, this does a good job on early 20th century computer history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory

I don't recommend reading this. There are many gaps and a lot of important history missing, including: 1. Computation before ~1800. Abacus, Napier's Bones, Slides rules, Pascal's C…

seems like the longest thread is Windows by the same reasoning?

> "starting at $3,499" I wonder what the model that you actually want to buy will cost and what average sales price will be. From the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised if they s…

why does Knuth think Trump eats Betel nuts? Does he?

The new MacBook Pro can be configured with 96 GB of RAM, up from 64. I know there are people out there who are excited about this and will use this much memory on a laptop. I'm jus…

The most likely "end game" is not replacing all backend financial systems.

Any benchmarks on this? How long does it take to generate a batch of images, say with steps=100?

There's a reason Monero doesn't show up on exchanges that comply with US KYC rules.

Pure privacy, without limitation, in money transfers would be catastrophic. Despite the consternation of hyperextreme libertarians sitting in their armchairs, the ability for the g…

Nowhere in this blog post: any discussion of money laundering, sending funds to terrorist groups, rogue states. Without mention of any of the legitimate reasons the US government i…

This is specific to pass through income like from LLCs. These are wildly undertaxed relative to ordinary income at the moment.

Which was overturned in Brown by a unanimous decision. Typically the standard for overturning a case is high: either it is recent and clearly wrong, or there is a high level of con…

They are categorically different. The issuer of an insurance policy does not bear risk upfront. Insurance policies are not collateralized.

Unless I'm missing something here, this is insurance, not lending.

It seems like the author must think that the private lenders were the schools themselves? Otherwise, I agree, this doesn't make sense at all.

I was interested in this and took a look. Pedestrian deaths in the USA are up a bit, up 10% since 2010, from 33k to 36k in 2019. [1] USA population over the same period has increas…

This is cool, but I really don't understand what the point of macro photography is on a smartphone.

Right, but there are at least many competitors to Best Buy all competing for your business, driving down margins. Running physical stores is costly. If Apple allowed competing digi…