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Certainly don't pay to go to movies and watch ugly people

What's so wrong with enjoying the company of women with better genetics than most?

I've been considering cancelling my preorder. As late as they'll be (assuming they do deliver) and my estimated place in line, the other manufacturers will have competitive offerings

I wish we'd get rid of timezones all together - is there really much point aside from tradition?

MS already makes royalty on every significant Android device made

Do you not recall the number of foreign Hilary supporters pushing on social media and chat rooms?

ISO 9660 is not at all a general purpose filesystem. Although fairly trivial to reason about and implement, little and big endian systems required entirely separate structures written to disc or files would not be accessible.

Myth 2 was a popular testing media in those days due to Apple and PC endian differences. As I recall Bungie did some clever crafting on the structures to share some of the media between platforms while keeping binaries separated. Even had a fun picture of soulblighter in Finder through icon trickery.

-wrote commercial CD mastering and storage software many many moons ago

Easier to mine relative to the price... More juice for the squeeze

You are all missing my point (or I did not make it clear) - the resources are there for you to burn in achieving your goals. You will never be able to deliver a product in competitive fashion compared to groups that are more willing to burn resources (with "reason") - the market simply doesn't pay for high efficiency on the desktop or in the browser

Youtube the "hastily made Cleveland tourism video"

Although it's great for campfire stories I don't really see a problem. Resources are there to be used - the lesson from StarCraft is you don't horde resources to victory. I think most believe this as how many of us are writing unikernel OSs purposed built for our hand tuned assembly backends

On the body aches - standing desk that can lower to sitting height. I change back and forth throughout the day. Also keep a bokken (wooden sword) to swing and walk for periodic breaks - wife calls it my "thinking stick".

Regarding getting out of the fog - drinking is the only thing I've found to be reliable, but seldom do so during the week

Non-white and grew up with a very religious background - even lived in a religious commune-like environment for a few years. The current environment in the bay reminds me of those days in many ways - the incredible pressure to visibly signal virtue through study, fasting, public displays of humility, etc. It's easy to trick yourself in thinking you actually believe and this is the only way, but it quickly fades once you're out of the environment

Bees make hexagons. I've seen tons of horizontal and odd shaped burr comb that is still hexagonal - which if they were truly making circles would remain circles as there is no vertical load.

Mites have been the largest issue and will likely take decades for the genetics to select out for an uneasy balance. In the mean time, the commercial guys can't keep doing business as usual and have to cleanup their act - they had a nice free ride for a while

That is always how society works, those that existed before leverage the efforts of the young. 401k, social security, Medicare, etc

You'll benefit from this scenario at some point as well.

Why does everyone hate on prop13? It still allows taxes to go up, but only at the rate of inflation - it prevents normal people from being thrown out of their houses after 10 years due to tax adjustments

Even if we had high-speed rail the gov would regulate it to death like everything else - they'll make it just as painful as flying. Imagine the TSA salivating for the mission creep.

Meritocracy is such a narrow and arbitrary definition on what is acceptable for claiming resources. Social myths to keep the rable in the fields and out of the manor.

If humans really are causing climate change, nothing appreciable will be done until there is no choice - that's by and large how people operate unfortunately.

And we in the US struggle with getting anything built for less than eye watering sums - does anyone remember the recent bay bridge saga? Corruption, incompetence, etc?

You Bet Your Garden by Mike McGrath. Feels good to hear something completely unrelated to tech

It incentivizes all activity productive risk taking or just sitting on the couch and playing Call of Duty - which if you've delt with most humans lately means it'll likely be Call of Duty unless there's some sort of familial pressure to do otherwise

What economic cost? Rather silly view as much of the production of the beloved solar panel is in China... Have you been to any industrial cities there recently?

Certainly not advocating RPB approach, but we're simply not competitive

Wow, can I choose not to have my tax dollars go to this?

I think the future of government is voting through selective funding of programs by each individual.

And concurrently, may rattle the echo chamber a bit