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It gets bad. In Janesville, Wisconsin when the GM plant closed: >The fabric of hundreds of families unravels, as an itinerant class of fathers — “Janesville Gypsies,” they call the…

As other commenters mentioned there was a “high Bayesian prior” for lab leaks, too.

It’s not polite to assume ignorance of all this on the part of my friends, either, but here you are. If Signal didn’t suck as much, my friends wouldn’t have left and I wouldn’t hav…

Yup, and I don’t care. If I ever organize a protest I’ll do it on Signal, or another end-to-end encrypted platform. For daily banter I’ll use whatever a majority of my friends pref…

I stopped using Signal, along with my adult tech-oriented friends, when we all had bad experiences migrating our accounts to new phones. That plus the phone number requirement, int…

You’ve flown far beyond the original comment’s context, which was Valve’s entire history from way before there was Steam. I don’t know whose point you think you’re responding to.

Valve predates Steam by a number of years, and Steam wasn’t always in the dominant position it’s in now.

They did it all without outside investors or stock sales.

I think Sam Hyde’s TED talk, or even just his introduction, is the final word on that group’s lack of speaker vetting: https://youtu.be/9cflCyyEA2I

As the other commenter mentions, neural network-driven speech recognition represents the current state of the art and powers products like Alexa and Google Home. https://ai.googleb…

Not the first “fireless locomotive” to see service in railyards. Historical versions ran on steam reservoirs or compressed air, replenished by a central power plant. Some are still…

I love Worms, but if there’s a runner-up for “Britain’s most tenacious indie games company” then surely it is Hello Games. They launched No Man’s Sky in 2016 to universal disappoin…

The number of deleted episodes is now up to 113.

Magic Leap has offices all over. They had one in Mountain View just a few blocks from where Rengstorff crosses Highway 101, over by Google. That was a few years ago, dunno if it’s …

This is one justification for racial admissions quotas. It ignores how black students admitted to Harvard often come not from the descendants of enslaved Americans but high-income …

It’s bizarre that universities are banning caste discrimination while at the same time actively discriminating based on race. See recent Harvard lawsuit over Asian student admissio…

Your flippant dismissal of the GP comment perfectly illustrates their point.

>This piece is entertainment to be enjoyed by white folks in Alexandria cozy on their couch with their cafe-au-lait. Or the Asian and Indian folks who increasingly make up NoVA’s “…

Paramotors are great, but they’re absolutely as bulky as a jetpack and at least as loud as a lawnmower.

The other American networks are no different. Just yesterday CNN’s Jim Acosta called Virginia under Republican Governor Youngkin a “Soviet-style police state.” I don’t see how that…

Yep, that’s Bruce Simpson. He still uploads regularly on his YouTube channel, mostly about RC planes and NZ drone regulation: https://youtu.be/o10FzfI4zLA

>Restrictions on the underlying drone tech would be effective for now. RC planes have been around for decades and are mechanically very simple. High-performance quadcopters and the…

It’s hard to say beyond anecdotal impressions. There are rankings out there of average breast size by country, perhaps drawn from brassiere sales numbers, but I’ve never seen one w…