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I was surprised to learn the Mars bar familiar from my childhood wasn't a product of the original American corporation Mars Inc. Frank Mars founded the American company. His son Fo…

From Microsoft’s POV they soundly beat Unix in the 1990s because they were primarily focused on the GUI workstation market. In 1991 the market for high-end desktop software like en…

I think the most confusing concept in this process for new users is the shortcut inside the disk image because it breaks the isolation metaphor. So, you download a file, and it's s…

The Byzantine Empire was Greek. Heraclius changed the official language to Greek already in the 7th century because that’s what everyone spoke. They kept calling themselves Romans,…

Well, the Holy Roman Empire inherited the name but, as Voltaire said, "was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"... And the Byzantine Empire shrunk greatly after the first few hu…

"what about empires that actually survived or adapted" — which ones exactly? Empires are pathological developments of nations. They don't tend to survive all that long.

> "men catching up with women when it comes to dumb anxieties" It's weird to watch all those fans of patriarchy step right into their own trap. Didn't they get the memo that this s…

OTOH many women may prefer as partner the European man who doesn't work crazy overtime every night, takes 4 weeks of holidays every year with her, uses his months of legally mandat…

This post was obviously written by Claude.

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Hitler said he wanted to use the treatment of Native Americans as a model for how East Europe and Russia would be cleared out to make room for Germans.

Thank you for demonstrating what was meant by “America has yet to learn the same lesson.” The poem “First They Came” was written by a German pastor who enthusiastically supported N…

There’s a reason why Germany has extremely strict laws about how personally identifying information can be collected and stored. America has yet to learn the same lesson, but has b…

FT2 and ST3 were released within months of each other in 1994, so they must have been in development in parallel. It makes sense that FT was primarily inspired by a different Amiga…

It's not about cultural difference but simply what's easier. Action sequences are forgiving. There's lots of motion and shiny vfx to fudge things over. Rapid cuts mean each shot ca…

One of the best-loved Maxis games of the 1990s was SimTower which was all about designing elevator flows for your skyscraper. It might be fun to revisit. The game was actually of J…

This post is obviously AI-written and it’s practically incomprehensible without some background context that’s missing here.

Is there a guide for how to do the “syndicate elsewhere” part? For the HN audience, the first part is trivially easy (getting a domain, publishing on it) but the second probably is…

Epstein emails. Google will find it for you.

A CLAUDE.md file has no moat, it can be read by other agents. Automemory can be weaved into the product in ways that make it harder to switch. This is a company that's looking to I…

I made several large Cocoa (macOS AppKit, Obj-C) apps in 2004-2018 using the classic Smalltalk-inspired MVC patterns and this was never a problem. Sometimes writing the controller …

> “Besides unconventional rickrolls and other trolling, this has no practical applications: there's no way to add timing information, so playback is entirely dependent on network d…

There is literally nothing else of value on Truth Social except the president's posts. And those are considered official government communications. There's a legal ruling about tha…

Perhaps his best known work is the novels that were made into movies, “Crash” and “High-Rise”, and neither is science fiction. There’s also “Empire of the Sun” that was adapted by …

Windows Phone solved it by supporting only Silverlight apps... No Windows APIs. I also loved the Windows Phone 7 UI. But the app story was always a mess, and the competitive situat…