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Just because something has a price associated with it, that does not make the pricing model inherently correct or just. The majority of research papers, at least in the U.S., are (…

do you have a source other than a tweet from the Twitter account of a political hack?

Also, a lot of American carrom boards were produced with a checker board one side and a crokinole board on the other side.

Have you tried Flickwars? I don't own it, but played a demo version at a board game convention maybe five years back. I still keep wanting to pull the trigger on buying it but I've…

Almost twenty years ago, I brought a crokinole board into my work and it became a very popular diversion. We came up with a cutthroat version where four players could play individu…

Generally, crokinole is a much less punishing game than carrom, if we're talking about Indian carrom boards. American carrom boards, that were really popular in after-school progra…

Often in tabletop crokinole play, the "sand" isn't even used. Modern boards are often slick enough to get away with playing without it, and if it's a board that you roll out regula…

$25 for 12 oz? Yikes!

I prefer Mango Languages, which I get for free through my public library. The progression feels better to me, it's not as gamified (sorry for using that word), and there is some (t…

Cool. Now can we get wireless carriers to stop advertising their bandwidth-capped plans as "unlimited"?

I'm currently looking at alternatives for self-hosting. Do you prefer gogs to gitea? why, if so?

zombo.com still kicking!

> The Author is arguing for replacing the chain with power wires, by generating power from pedaling and feeding it into the motor (with efficiency losses of 5%) My understanding is…

What headphones do you use while swimming? I've been looking into getting a pair for swimming, and am interested in recommendations.

What's going on in the comment section with the numbers?

Some background on FREOPP: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Researc...

The "Handy Library" Android app includes an ISBN scanner and allows you to import and export collection data. You could also check out some of the tooling and APIs around openlibra…

If that's meant to be a justification of relevancy, it's quite a stretch.

Did you take much of a battery life hit with the addition of the NVMe drive?

mosh is a lifesaver on flights, where latency typically exceeds 500ms

I've found the discomfort with near-freezing water in our cold-water-supply-only bidet seat to be minimal. Sure, I'd prefer warmer water, but it's really not that bad.

The Washington Post article was hearsay, and this article adds nothing new. No real sources are cited except for Dennis Franks, an ex-FBI agent, who somehow can't fathom how anyone…