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>Surely something comparable has happened in the past where a big reserve of some rare mineral has been found and monopolized, and its price didn't go to zero. Aluminum. Initially so expensive…

>Hmm...maybe it’s time to try some alternatives to democracy. >What if we chose councilors from a pool at random? "I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the …

Infocom's text adventures have a similarly sophisticated text parser and are based on a far more flexible development language (ZIL) and virtual architecture (Z-Machine). The early games have the…

Nothing "post" about it. Wokeism's forced public self-abasement via Twitter is the classic Communist struggle session put online.

>Also, island nations still have internal traffic. What's different about the borders between parts of Australia that allowed them to be closed when European borders had to stay open? Australi…

Its novelty. Were there a longer history of mRNA vaccines, or had the COVID19 ones had the normal vaccine development/testing time, I would likely feel differently. My doctor (who has already rec…

>These same people showed up at the nation's capital with every intention of taking hostages & holding show trials. Is that the current description? What happened to "attempted coup&q…

"I love Germany so much that I prefer to see two of them" —Giulio Andreotti, PM of Italy

How about 1981? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y

Firefox, too

I suspect that, in retrospect, the first inclination of many parents when the pandemic began to hold "COVID parties" for children like the familiar "chicken pox parties"—inclinatio…

That's my plan. As a non high-risk individual who works from home, after discussing this with my doctor I intend to a) wait as long as possible before taking a COVID19 vaccine and b) if possible …

>Reminds me how in Soviet Russia you couldn't read certain books or risk prosecution, but were of course required to condemn them, in public if possible. Which led to entire groups of politici…

US mobile plans gave enormous buckets (thousands) of SMS messages a month to mobile users 10-15 years ago, so there was little incentive to move to other mobile messaging systems. Conversely, the lack…

No "very, very ordinary apartment in NYC" costs $6000 a month.

Multiple studies have shown that Kaiser Permanente (an integrated health insurance/care provider—basically a non-governmental equivalent of the NHS in comprehensiveness—that is available in many …

I was sure, and stated on Hacker News as much, that a) half of Minneapolis torched by mobs with the National Guard and police nowhere in sight, b) the nuttiness of CHAZ, and c) nightly attacks on Fede…

A non-US citizen by definition cannot receive a US passport, which a US passport card is.

This is also why there won't ever be a European Silicon Valley. Paris isn't going to support any Europe-wide effort to create one that isn't located in the Hexagon, nor will Berlin supp…

>The per capita discussion in that post is of course a bit misleading, the US is larger so it's also more likely to attract immigrant. A migrant doesn't care if the country he is moving t…

Why don't you ask those who actually vote with their feet? A random German is four times more likely to move to the US, than an American is to move to Germany. A German is 16 to 48 times more lik…

>There's no culture war to be found here. ... Except eBay also disallowed sales of said books. I'm not saying that the current owners of the rights to the books caused eBay to do so. That…

Highly relevant: 1K ZX Chess (1982 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess ), a full chess AI + graphical UI for ZX81 in 672 bytes.…

sys_64738 is referring to Commodore running a tradein program for $100 off a C64 with any computer or videogame console. People purchased the Timex Sinclair for $45 solely to trade in ( https:/&#…

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-09/page/n259/... …

I wonder if it's because people are likely to try `sex.com` in a web browser for laughs (and get surprised when it turns out to be a real site), but aren't likely to do so with `books.com` o…

>I said fragile but I would've mentioned efficacy - it's past midnight. The NHS isn't even that good, but it's hard to bring it up because it's the sacred cow. NHS does wel…

>There was a good piece in the private eye a few years ago listing headlines saying the NHS is doomed tomorrow going back to before Blair. https://twitter.com/KulganofCrydee/st…

I see that you deleted your further attempt to mock my presenting statistics in exchange for your anecdotes (I had no idea until reading your contributions here that that in the US there is no "a…

Darn. Missed the new ones too!