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Most importantly, it makes investors think dumb people are smart.

Did you know that to have a .cat domain, your content needs some link to the nation of Catalonia? That is why they offer a Catalonian translation.

It should instead trigger a little germ icon, like a virus, because it's like a virus.

It doesn't matter which one you mean, because Go has neither of them.

Go's full of hacks, and holds no shame over it. Zero-initialized everything, and proceeding to 'defer' instead of RAII, generic builtin types despite lack of generics (until recent…

Go's entire schtick is being simple, eschewing language complexity in favour of letting the programmer handle it themself. Like C, but with pointer safety and garbage collection. W…

In most cities it's illegal to build a new neighbourhood without an HOA

Wealthy neighbourhoods get actual protection, rather than protection-as-an-excuse-for-surveillance.

You're absolutely right! If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. That's why I installed a camera in your bathroom and made it publicly accessible to the internet. If…

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It once came up whether my grandmother went to music festivals in her youth. Of course not, she said, they hadn't been invented yet! They didn't have electronic music, because they…

Other things that are surprisingly less than 100 years old include electronic music, Germany, Croatia, capitalism, the end of slavery, worker's rights, fiat currency, central banks…