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It’s a reference to “Snow Crash” by Neil Stephenson

You’re allowed to have a storefront and have that not fall under what most reasonable people call “doing advertising”

Ah, true: I mentally read “president”

This isnt true. She died in 1913.

Presumably an obese one. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-obes...

That’s not really super meaningful in terms of interplanetary travel. For example, for most of the year Mercury is the closest planet to Earth. Change in orbital velocity matters m…

It's pretty dense because of all the subordinate clauses. "... cases that asked the court to revisit the existing doctrine. This doctrine protected police from lawsuits concerning …

Yes, but 95% of devs, even fairly talented ones, don't really know how to use Git.

It's not really inferiority: the commonality of the other countries is that they typically follow a different regime of negotiation of the road. In specific, the USA and other angl…

To be fair, most Ofo bikes in Shanghai have the same auto-unlock feature in later Marks... maybe about 75% of the ones I've tried.

Can corroborate, also in Shanghai: I had much preferred Ofo to the Mobikes because they were a 'normal bike' without a belt chain. But then... time passed and rain poured, rusting …

Indeed! I keep my to-do lists in vim and have added a few lines to my syntax file to recognize/color a couple extra checkmarks like - [?] question - [o] blocked by someone else - […

It can be both. The article says there's the idea of sussing out that the different businessmen are "the same kind of person" with similar 'desires'. That's why the article mention…

Indeed, K8s is a numeronym[0] for K(ubernete)s. [0] Compare i18n, g11n, and i10n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym

"But they didn't, and come to think of it, why should they know about something so far outisde their specialty?" Outside ;)

I think he means Linux kernel developers hate (their own) solution for Meltdown.

They do: there's a very prominent amount of windmills along the I-80 in Carbon County that's quite a sight to drive by :) http://www.uwyo.edu/werc/wind-wyo.html

A total extinction event is pretty unlikely: a nuclear war could perhaps end our civilization, but there'd still be folks around, even if their lives were harder. It's believed tha…

Could be: a lot of the 'branding' of the actor these days is about curating what films they show up in. Like, if Johnny Depp is in a movie, you know generally what kind of film it'…

Reminds me of this Guardian article investigating such a plan to combat Zika, Dengue, and so on: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/10/should-we-wip...

One can feel sympathy for someone without absolving them. If they're so desperate, then why deny them their moral agency as well?

I don't see a contradiction between Equality of Opportunity and welfare programs. Indeed, they seem to be proposed hand-in-hand by most people, so I'll set aside for a moment the e…

Equality of outcome's implication is a culture engaging in an authoritarian and quixotic pursuit of perfect human misery. It is hard enough to ensure a specific outcome for yoursel…

The central dilemma is that there are myriad ways to do it wrong for every one way to do it correctly.

I think I switched to DDG perhaps 5 months ago, although I'm not sure. Happy ducking, hah!