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I think you’re using the typical aesthetic definition of fantasy vs. sci-fi. You’re right that under that one, Tower of Babylon would be considered fantasy. Ted Chiang has an alter…

This data structure is called the zipper, and the neat thing is that you can generalize this to more complicated types like trees: https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/20…

I built a similar system for my school’s CS club. I considered using a door sensor, but the eventual solution I settled on was a light sensor, because it’s almost always true for u…

> my wife with iphone pops up browser, I pop up mine with firefox and ublock origin. Internet is utterly useless and horrible place on her phone, while completely fine on mine (plu…

Somewhat related game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1533050/Press_Ctrl/

When I was traveling abroad, I placed an order on Walmart, shipping to my home address, so that it would be there for me when I got back home. Walmart cancelled the order, "due to …

Many streets in parts of Asia (Korea and Taiwan for example) are similar. A majority of the "side" roads just don't have sidewalks, and people walk on the road. I was a little nerv…

The point is that this is a societal issue. One person paying doing some charity on their own doesn't solve the societal issue. As analogy: "It sucks that my peers earn less than m…

This is a classic coordination problem: you need all the sellers to leave together so that individual merchants don't take a loss. And coordination problems like this are one of th…

For Uber and UberEats, turns out you actually can disable marketing notifications, under the communication settings, it's just hidden away.

The funny thing was that even Apple violated that rule themselves: https://marco.org/2014/12/01/app-store-rule-5-6

I watched the movie first, but enjoyed the written story more (though I still thought the movie was great!). The big difference for me was the inclusion of the physics in the writt…

Capital One credit cards have this feature.

I don't think it's clear that PFOF is bad for retail investors. Many people argue (see Analysis section of the article you posted, and also Matt Levine's writing about it on Money …

Many of my professors would mention the problem numbers for both the current version, and the previous version, to deal with that specifically.

> Europe does not have skyscrapers so it is possible. I'll steelman your argument to be "Europe has less skyscrapers than NYC" (which I think is true, IIRC). If you need to get awa…

It was changed because of a California law IIRC.

You'll also want `set show-mode-in-prompt on`. Note that this feature is broken when you have a PS1 with a \n in it, in an older version of readline/bash (I am not sure which), so …

> not regulating the real-estate industry Are we talking about the same city? SF real estate is super regulated, it’s my go to example of real estate regulations taken to an insane…

> In my eyes, the only problem I had is that I thought school was a meaningless chore. Should we make children take meth because they don't like the system they're in? This is what…

The real answer (IMO) is that ADHD is both under-diagnosed and over-diagnosed. I know many people who would benefit from a ADHD diagnosis, but aren't diagnosed yet, and just kind o…

> wealth is not zero-sum Land is zero sum. The easy (partial) solution to that is just to build more housing on the same land, except older homeowners spend their time blocking new…

> provides strictly fewer choices when problem solving. If you view programming as trying to avoid writing the "wrong" program from the state space of all programs, this is a good …

Japan is much more child friendly in terms of that. For example, young children are regularly sent to do errands on their own (see the Old Enough tv show for an exaggerated version…