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>Google should be broken up into Search, Browsers, Mobile Devices, Ads, and Services, and the units prohibited from contracting with each other. I admire the general spirit of your…

* Guatemala starts a major war over Mexican espionage in Petén * Donald Trump is revealed to be the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto * President Nelson (prophet of the LDS church)…

I like seeing how far I can stack contractions, a purpose for which y'all is well suited. Eg "You all would not have" becomes y'all'dn't've.

It's similar to war heroes. Yes, Abraham Lincoln killed people. Yes, we could avoid glamorizing him and empathize with the poor southerners. But generally, war heroes are idolized.…

>Looking at the numbers I'm reminded of this excerpt from 1984: But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely …

At least in the case of the Maya, literacy was carefully guarded so that a small class of priests could exercise precisely this kind of control. In fact, this is believed to be one…

I read this as virility and expected something very different. So I'm going to comment as though it said "Virility in cartography". A virile map has monsters, and beckons a boy to …

Ooh I really like the triangle one. It's the top voted answer, so I guess I'm not alone. In fact, I think I really enjoy specialized notations. I care about how ideas are expressed…

The attackers claim the motive is political: >They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports…

>shoplifting is currently rife and, when the value is low, not addressed, but this is a temporary state of affairs. Remember though, how often in the history of states, the tempora…

Wickard v. Filburn basically destroyed the commerce clause. Growing wheat on your own farm is "interstate commerce" because it impacts national wheat prices (since you would have b…

Advocando pro diabolō, I disagree. Since the width just expands to the size of my screen, and I have a rather wide screen, I found this design (or lack thereof) sufficiently obnoxi…

Yeah, the death of comments sections really signified the end of Web 2.0 as something people eagerly believed in, rather than just a stagnant reality we're all trapped in. And they…

Ha! I read the docs for ~+ ( https://docs.urbit.org/language/hoon/reference/rune/sig#-sig... ) and fibonacci sequence is actually the example they use! Thanks so much for this enli…

>The standard way to expel stated mutable state us to push it into function parameters and returned values. This is precisely what I did in my Hoon solution :) However, I wasn't aw…

I recently ran into this issue when trying to memoize a simple numerical sequence in Hoon (yes, that Hoon. I know, I know...). Let's use the fibonacci sequence as an example. Let's…

I use `brew install` as liberally as a junior Javascript dev using NPM, so I'm grateful to all the engineers doing this work to keep me safe. Apparently, this was funded by somethi…

You might like folk punk - check out Pat the Bunny. I feel like there are two kinds of singers - people who are good at singing, and people who have something to sing about. You an…