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I had no idea that ACA prices were so different based on where you lived. I couldn't understand the numbers as I put in my family's stats & saw $600-$800/mo in my current and a cou…

I miss n-gate

Every US state is at-will. The only state that significantly varies from this is Montana, wherein employment is at-will for only the first six months of employment, which would cov…

McSweeney's, not The Onion

this is pretty wild: https://old.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/v8p9ga/japanese_poli... > You can't carry ANY dangerous objects without a justified reason. E.g., you're going camping.…

One of my favorite musicians. I was not aware of this backstory, but I'm glad it happened :) https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com

This used to exist in the US as well: http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-ai... I remember these being an entire aisle in the grocery store in the 80s. I thin…

A cool feature would be to take keyboard input. Either 'abcdefg' typed in or else one of those skeuomorphic layouts used by DAWs. Or else even better, if it supported webmidi so so…

What would happen if you just started with a slug?

Are leading commas allowed? Because otherwise, you've just traded out the inability to comment out the last element for the inability to comment out the first. I never understood t…

Here is another, interactive explanation of this phenomenon in IRV, as well as some alternatives that do not suffer this issue: https://ncase.me/ballot/

Does this mean that US automakers might start making light trucks again? I thought that the reason why they aren't made much any more was due to milage standards, but that wouldn't…

I'm wondering, what entity enforces a uniqueness constraint on the URLs? Presumably it wouldn't be hard to copy the content & host & create a whole new URL, but what prevents you f…

I am a highlight reader. Going through this thread, I thought it would be nice to automate it, as it's a triple-click to highlight a paragraph in safari. What if instead, it was ju…

I went to look up the amendments, of which there was only one, which seems to have been accepted: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/house-amen... which, on its face…

Thanks! I had originally found it in Douglas Hofstadter's & Daniel Dennett's anthology, The Mind's I, which I also strongly recommend to those who haven't heard of it.

If you expect the first round winner to always win, then what would be the point of doing RCV at all? First round RCV winner is the same as FPTP winner. The entire reason why you w…

Watching that video, there's not much in there that you couldn't do with vscode vim plugin. Lots of it was just setting up vim plugins to replicate behavior present in vscode itsel…

Fave Raymond Smullyan essay: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTa... I once printed this out & gave it to a pair of repeat Jehovah's Witness door-knockers I…

It's not just being held responsible for one's spouse's opinions (much less actions)— at least one of his own past judicial decisions now seems quite questionable in light of this:…

This is a variation on xor-swap, but one that suffers from over(/under)flow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm#Variations