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And yet, Thorsten Veblen was American. Have we mellowed out since his observations about "veblen goods"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

An analogy I saw once: can 9 women make a baby in 1 month?

It was decent, we shipped one but switched to .net because of high dpi scaling issues IIRC

Part of the reason was that WinRT was aimed at tablets and other low power devices, where unrestricted Win32 API use could drain the battery too quickly. They were trying to put th…

Yes, this was needed for civil engineering and city permits to replace a retaining wall that holds my driveway up and (hopefully!) keeps it from sliding onto my neighbors fancy exp…

Maybe they need to put a traffic circle at this intersection.

Not only that, if 2 people talk at once they can cancel each other out and neither can be heard by anyone else. Much of aviation is still based on pre WWII tech and practices like …

I got a survey of my residential property, 1/2 acre on a rugged hillside, from a guy who used a drone equipped with lidar. It was $4,000, less than traditional methods, but it woul…

For anything more complex than a shower head, a made in USA label often implies some trickery with final assembly of imported components, like the crossfire example above. Research…

I learned on here that this has been happening to a degree with maps. Several big companies have been cooperating to improve open street map data, a rare example of a beneficial co…

It was a major reason Grey Davis was recalled and we got the Governator

The person who wrote this Spotify p2p software also wrote uTorrent, which was bought by the company bittorrent after they struggled to make a C++ client on their own. The original …

Ha, yes, agree. How many trips to the office should it take to prove you are real meat?

The name "grapefruit" always seemed a little puzzling when compared with grapes, and it seems nobody is quite sure how the name got started, only that it is from Barbados. One inte…

Prescriptivist in the streets, descriptivist in the sheets!

Agree. Hindsight is 20/20. A conservative CEO who pulls back and doesn't lean into a growth cycle will be criticized even more for leaving money on the table. Whether the entire ec…

Some consider the emphasis on hard work and striving for its own sake to be less a default or inevitable value as an arbitrary confluence of history and Protestant/Calvinist doctri…

"In other words, the record business became the only entertainment industry in the world with no plan for technological innovation." Hasn't this been true since people started list…

slogging across that giant parking lot doesn't help...

A shoulder mounted anti-tank rocket was once turned over at a gun buyback in San Francisco: https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-gun-buyback-bazooka-guns/... I think it is probably w…

Some have argued in the past that a large part of the economy is money laundering for Russian oligarchs - hence the pejorative "Londongrad" nickname. Might a slowdown of this activ…

"...those reductions are about what could be expected with conventional aerobic exercise..." "It could be beneficial for people who are unable to do traditional aerobic exercise ..…

San Francisco has had all the problems being blamed on the DA for decades. Things got worse during the pandemic in most cities, regardless of what DA they had. People act like Boud…

All the comments about how it will be too expensive and difficult to source unusually sized parts make me wonder how they make something like the Hammerhead Karoo for $400 - an and…

Surprised the article didn't mention that you are generally welcome to use the restroom in a Japanese convenience store, which will usually have a spotless toilet with fancy roboti…