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If corner crossing is not possible, the value of his private property increases by the value of the notionally public land that's effectively exclusively his now. If corner crossin…

Where do you see the previous poster bring racist? If anything, he is being anti-racist by calling out the structural inequity of medieval society.

Was quite surprised to visit one recently only to be greeted by a full shelf of Faygo Redpop. Juggalo nostalgia!

Immersion is pretty much the point of VR, and until Elon's Neuralink gets their shit together (not holding my breath) VR headsets are the least bad option we have.

The street resale value of a stolen $1000 phone is far less than the value of $1000 in stolen cash.

The Baltic Sea is cold and too low in salt for sea worms, so wooden wrecks survive much longer than anywhere else in the world.

For better or worse, the term "GA" is used by all cloud providers.

Gotta say the irony is strong with a private equity firm called Ethical Capital Partners acquiring porn company MindGeek. I wonder who's fucking who the hardest?

> Americans seem to be kindly, trusting and helpful towards members of their own sub-group, and quite the contrary to those they deem "lesser" in status - the poor, the disabled, p…

They're building a showcase city a thousand kilometers away in a different island as the new capital, but they're not relocating the 20+ million who live in Jakarta.

Only around 50,000 of them live in the old bit we think of us as Venice, and the number is dropping steadily. The rest live on the mainland (Mestre).

It was first published by the New Yorker and it's available online: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

250k to rip the entire side of a building off cleanly: https://archive.is/A1IGF

Where's the fun in that? Use NO_FOO=enable,disable to maximize ambiguity.

Per the article, the margin was negative, they could only produce 86% of dietary needs.

This applies widely in software engineering: for example, the yawning gulf between the merits of microservices with Kubernetes and Istio on paper and in practice.

There is a huge difference between a leadership-endorsed strategy memo like the Nokia/Elop "Burning Platform" memo (1), and a memo by a random engineer like Steve Yegge's Platform …

Hey, at least you can still keep your shoes on.

I'm only surprised there is no faxing involved. The trusting yet maximally awkward payment process where you get paper invoices and need to mail around links is super Japanese thou…

For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. — Matthew 25:29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…