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Surprisingly, the article does not mention that Selfridge field in Michigan is named after Lieutenant Selfridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge_Air_National_Guard_B... .

African wild dogs use sneezes to "vote" to make decisions. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/284/1862/201...

Obviously, it's a great outcome that it worked. But the alternative--"it could trigger a small explosion," JPL noted--would have been interesting too. A sort of in fire or in ice o…

You are probably not overestimating. Generally, I would guess conferring with the client on the facts, briefing, preparing for a hearing, and arguing a hearing would be north of, a…

What you said reminded me of this Royal Road ( https://www.royalroad.com/home ) website I came across. It is not physical publishing (at least I don't think so), but it is a large …

That's cool. I admit hearing that story and thinking, "Is that how it happened? could a diver find it?" Apparently, they could! Great work on someone seeing it through.

Also at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727257 (48 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728973 (1 comment)

I thought of this quote from the PBS documentary Commanding Heights LESZEK BALCEROWICZ, Finance Minister, Poland, 1989-1991: Just after breakthrough, there is a short period, a per…

Feel free, my contact information is in my profile. "Back to school" in this case would, usually, mean law school, at least in the U.S. My sense is it is not uncommon for there to …

If you would like to reach out, I can probably answer some things for you. But, whether it is ultimately worth it or not, is a personal decision.

I've always thought a website with sliders for mate preferences would be really helpful for folks. I get that it could get really complicated to do correctly, but even a fast and d…

1994 was still pretty early on for the web. This timeline of web browsers, which is very well done btw, illustrates the clients that were available at that time: https://en.wikiped…

To be clear, I was not suggesting the intent was harm for harm's sake. I was suggesting that it was in the company's/businesses' interest to harm. I agree that, often, that interes…

If by "reform" you mean weaken class actions, I would argue that is a bad idea. Larger businesses have already gone to great lengths to eliminate / curtail class actions. I'd argue…

Preservation is one of the central problems of current copyright terms. By the time the term exhausts--in the U.S., now around 95 years for works for hire or life plus 75 years for…

Notably, from an announcement link in the comments ( https://global.sharp/corporate/news/230809-a.html ), the expected production of the 25.3 inch model is _only 500 a month_.

If it isn't already a "law," one should be that the more complex a software system gets the more it tends towards control over user actions. There is probably a network-related cor…

If you're interested in more, this is a nice and short documentary (2014) on the Amen Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

If anyone else was curious for more recent data, this 2021 article has the trends through 2019: https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff... . Its chart shows th…

To save others the trip, the link simply states the term is a "[c]oordinative compound of anarcho- + tyranny." The link also adds that the term was coined by Samuel Francis, a colu…

You can see the part where they open it up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJRWKCtKqo&t=1570s . My speculation: I'm no expert, but it looks like there are fragments of, at l…

Here are some news articles that have covered the raid: - https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/11/18... - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joerg-…

>The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite. And the TV analyzes your dial-flipping to determine what channel to c…

Why do you think the company never took it to market past testing? And thank you for looking into this. I recall reading about experiments on the modified bacteria years ago, but t…

Huh, I did not know they were related to sulfonamides like that. If you (or someone else) might like a book that goes into the history of sulfonamides, I'd recommend "The Demon Und…