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Interesting how anisotropic it is. Naively I would have assumed it would be roughly symmetrical

The threshold for greed is higher than the median net worth of an American. We tell people they need "generational" wealth to a make it in this country because housing, education, …

The Olympics were canceled(postponed) due to a plague, so that tracks

>just changing animation quality, physics, attack methods, and level design So...basically everything about the game but the genre?

Bradbury actually anticipated this on the Martian side and explicitly calls out frozen dinners.

It's interesting to look at the short a story and see where we are still behind on home automation. We still don't have robot firefighting or accurate robot cooking, for example.

So will this run through Classic no problem, yes? I almost want to break my powebook G4 out of mothballs on principle to try this.

They used to be so cheap that WIRED offered them as signup freebies. I wonder what happened.

Without the promise of return most promising technology would never have been created.

I like how "A Wrinkle in Time" starts:"It was a dark and stormy night."

For the last 50 years you would get in severe trouble for using test scores alone thanks to disparate impact.

GOG will let you download the offline installer for every game they sell, IIRC.

Counterpoint: China from Deng and onwards is an autocracy with rapidly improving material conditions

They were right. I never sold a taped VCR, but my parents used it to time shift Saturday morning cartoons every week.

Found this book in a little free library a few months ago and read it cover-to-cover in one night. It's crazy what Data General was able to accomplish with its little side project.…

1) Sex work is largely criminalized around the world today. 2) Yes, childhood sexual abuse (again, also a crime) is associated with both hypo and hyper sexuality. Hypersexual indiv…

Venkatesh Rao offers the following definition of the "Fourth World" Fourth world: Parts of the developed world that have collapsed past third-world conditions because industrial sa…

Every time a read a story like this, I feel an atavistic desire to self-host eveything. But I've had my Google account for 20 years now; the die is cast.

It's interesting that they leave things at 18-59. Do they later stratify into 18-28, 29-38, 39-48, 48-58?

That was more or less the case from the advent of TV onwards, though.

Can't wait for my IDE to get sunset on me with no recourse. Thanks google, but I'll pass.

A few got stuck in inclined positions,but these don't actually tilt enough to crush even under normal conditions.

I had a rook under promotion happen in a real game on Lichess under time control. Queen would have stalemated, but rook was mate in 2.

That's the difference between the VC and PE models. VC, at least in theory, allocated capital to new ideas. PE squeezes "efficiency" out of what exists.

One thing that I have found Duolingo helpful for is kana and kanji practice in Japanese. It's better than flashcards in that it also gives you stroke order.