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They used to be so cheap that WIRED offered them as signup freebies. I wonder what happened.

Without the promise of return most promising technology would never have been created.

I like how "A Wrinkle in Time" starts:"It was a dark and stormy night."

For the last 50 years you would get in severe trouble for using test scores alone thanks to disparate impact.

GOG will let you download the offline installer for every game they sell, IIRC.

Counterpoint: China from Deng and onwards is an autocracy with rapidly improving material conditions

They were right. I never sold a taped VCR, but my parents used it to time shift Saturday morning cartoons every week.

Found this book in a little free library a few months ago and read it cover-to-cover in one night. It's crazy what Data General was able to accomplish with its little side project.

Fun fact: Data General was purchased by EMC, which used the name until 2012.

1) Sex work is largely criminalized around the world today.

2) Yes, childhood sexual abuse (again, also a crime) is associated with both hypo and hyper sexuality. Hypersexual individuals are more likely to engage in sex work.

Venkatesh Rao offers the following definition of the "Fourth World"

Fourth world: Parts of the developed world that have collapsed past third-world conditions because industrial safety nets have simultaneously withered from neglect/underfunding, and are being overwhelmed by demand, but where pre-modern societal structures don’t exist as backstops anymore.

This is what this story reminds me of.

Every time a read a story like this, I feel an atavistic desire to self-host eveything. But I've had my Google account for 20 years now; the die is cast.

It's interesting that they leave things at 18-59. Do they later stratify into 18-28, 29-38, 39-48, 48-58?

That was more or less the case from the advent of TV onwards, though.

Can't wait for my IDE to get sunset on me with no recourse. Thanks google, but I'll pass.

A few got stuck in inclined positions,but these don't actually tilt enough to crush even under normal conditions.

I had a rook under promotion happen in a real game on Lichess under time control. Queen would have stalemated, but rook was mate in 2.

That's the difference between the VC and PE models. VC, at least in theory, allocated capital to new ideas. PE squeezes "efficiency" out of what exists.

One thing that I have found Duolingo helpful for is kana and kanji practice in Japanese. It's better than flashcards in that it also gives you stroke order.

Neither is comparable to Israel since there's no home country for most Israelis to return to.

Defending against territorial conquest is considerably easier than defending against kinetic strikes on key manufacturing facilities

This is why I love HN. You get devs from any software or hardware project you care to name showing up in the comments.

It was a typo for $. The Arc B580 competed with the 4060 at 50 dollars less MSRP and 4GB more vram

One other fun thing about living at altitude is that the recipes you use need to be redesigned because the boiling point of water is lower.

AMH shows up in the fossil record 40K years ago. The seeds and nuts she discusses don't show up until the late neolithic. Modern hunter gatherers eat what they can catch and make up the rest with plants, but none of them are strict vegetarian at all.

There's a lot more to cigarette toxicity than heavy metals. For example, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, one of the main contributors to DNA damage/carcinogenicity in smoking, are orders of magnitude higher in cigs than in vaping. While I support vape regulation, acting as if it can't be mechanistically justified harm reduction is silly.

I think the death penalty should be on the books, but the practical application of it is so unworkable that it should effectively never be administered. The biggest problem, of course, is that there's no way to make a wrongfully sentenced person whole.

You can actually pinpoint the moment in 1994 when the derivative changed. David Schwimmer goes from side character in season 1 of NYPD Blue who ends up dead trying to save an old lady from a mugger to...Ross.

The audio quality from CD (or FLAC rips, no audiophile voodoo here) is better than what Spotify has to offer.

This is how I got an Emmy statuette.

One of the other things about Singapore is that they will bring the hammer down on you for abusing the public housing. If you pee in an elevator, the doors will shut and the police will come. Compare that to public housing in America...