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I really encourage interested folks to read the biography (though it's an undertaking). According to Caro, part of the background is that the relevant southern Texas precincts were…

An interesting anecdote, another good example of a reasonably modern example of paper ballots enabling election stealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal Caro covers t…

> Reduce price. Reduce the abominable resource usage. Allow E2E encryption. Increase performance so it doesn't trickle at tens of kilobytes for hours when I have 100Mbps upload and…

For the better part of a decade people have been buying Teslas under the promise that the cars would drive themselves better than their owner could, or would offset their cost by p…

The last third should have been a short epilogue or a full sequel. It's too much of a pivot in terms of tone and focus, and feels incongruous and mismatched with the first two sect…

Your calculator won't confidently pretend to conjugate German verbs while doing so incorrectly, though.

According to sixty seconds of googling[0], the extra day makes them eligible for sentence reduction for good behavior. [0]: https://kmlawfirm.com/2022/06/23/whats-the-deal-with-a-y…

> He replies, "I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox!" This only happens because he was inside a computer simulation of the universe created just for him, so the Vortex shows him he actually is im…

The year that I took AP Physics, every single piece of study material and practice test exercised only really simple math - small numbers, everything cleanly worked out into intege…

The above was referencing stopping on a city street ("Powell between Bush and Sutter"). You're talking about stopping on a highway. These things are not particularly comparable.

Presumably Efani accomplishes that additional protection by maintaining a human support staff they put more resources into training than the average carrier. That's expensive, espe…

> (~$400 sweater). From Terry Pratchett: "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned th…

Mostly off-topic, but if you find this compelling, you will certainly enjoy reading the short story "There Is No Antimemetics Division" whose chapters are linked from https://scp-w…

I benefit from a very robust set of regulatory controls ensuring that food products are as advertised and generally safe for me to consume?

Issuing a fake search warrant is presumably a crime, so they would/should be cooperating with law enforcement about it.

The very first thing you did is write a program that prints a pixel-perfect "memory reset successfully" message to the screen as if you had just cleared it yourself :)

> If you meet anyone who disagrees with any of that, let me know Facebook appears to have disagreed with that; they amplified calls for ethnic cleansing and did not respond to conc…

"Mansions" is hard to quantify; whether a given house was a mansion will be subjective, and doesn't correlate super well with the amount of financial support they gave their child.…

> how few bad things people can point to that he actually did.. I'd encourage you to read The Power Broker, if you haven't. Some examples that aren't "policy decisions" we can disa…

Sometimes! My attempt with GPT-4 yields a response where it acknowledges the print/len swap, but does not produce correct code in the end - it sort of loses track of what the origi…

Dihydrogen monoxide too!

I suspect that this comment section is going to fill up with such anecdotes, but his OCW lecture series on Linear Algebra got me through a college course with a less than inspired …

Most image viewers ignore bytes after the End Of Image in the jpeg format, so you can stick whatever you want on the end.