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I'm only casually into LOTR, but I immediately recognized her name from my beloved copy of the Dragonlance Atlas. Quite fun to read how she basically invented the field of professi…

> When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow? That's the... subtitle? Thesis statement? It's the first line after the title at any rate. I…

Plus, only a small fraction of Animal Crossing players, even lifelong series fans, will still be playing the game daily even one year later. In the real world, we need jobs done ~f…

That's true - but taxes *always* disincentivize the thing being taxed. If investment in a company is less profitable under taxation than it otherwise would be, there will be less i…

I don't think one has to takes sides on the manager vs Apple conflict to ask a much more important question: "Why is this newsworthy to The Verge and Hacker News?" At any given mom…

I know this is about SF but Seattle seems to have essentially the same issues with their liberal response to homelessness. This local news piece was both heartbreaking and infuriat…

Anyone who's parked a car often in dense areas knows the distance between legal and illegal parking is as small as the width of the bumper you stuck into the fire lane. GPS just ca…

Nope, only the scooter companies.

> and they are now upset with another business model that found /their gap is actually well-covered by existing towing law/ FTFY

They can't because their business is fundamentally built on the "leave anywhere" promise to their customers, who are the ones that actually leave the scooters illegally. There's ju…

Replace "steal" with "call a registered tow company" and you can do exactly that - have someone remove an improperly-placed item from your property. Cities solved the problem of im…

On a related note: I live in a city where trash collection rates are tied to how big of a trashcan you have. Along with recycling and compost collection programs, this is intended …

The primary impetus for the TSA was that people were afraid and it made them feel safer. The TSA actually accomplishes virtually nothing to prevent hijacking compared with the addi…

There are two obvious possible solutions to this from the city: (1) tiny print on the parking signs that says you consent to be chalked, creating an explicit contract (2) sell the …

Completely agree - HBO's app is as good as any of them. I'll add that Netflix is the only video app I've used that mismanages the chromecast control ui. Basically every other time …

It's worth noting that $45bn of funding in the Bay Area probably only goes as far as $15bn would in Austin. Companies are indirectly paying their employees' housing costs after all…

No one is talking about the phone as a physical device. The "phone" is the multibillion-dollar industry dedicated to indiscriminately making every human spend every possible second…

Talk to an emigrant from a former soviet country to find out what permanently living in adverse social conditions does to a culture. Sure, (most) people survive it.

It's easy to forget that BBSes were not at all populated by a representative sample of all people. The communities you experienced were the norm there but are a vanishingly small p…

You need about 8 figures generating passive income by most estimates.

You're assuming that there is a platonic ideal 'you' that the living person you are should be compared against. Ask yourself if you believe that statement. It doesn't make any sens…

It's more that they are collectively overpaid. As house prices rise the %-based commission causes new agents to flood the market, lowering the number of houses sold per agent. Agen…

Everyone wants to go everywhere - because people live Everywhere and have jobs Everywhere and their friends live Everywhere and there are stores Everywhere. No one is entitled to a…