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This is quite common in old buildings in cold areas such as northern Europe, the northern United States, and Canada. Two single pane windows are place a short distance apart. There are also "storm windows," a similar concept where
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All that stuff is actually _even worse_ under alternative economic systems. Spend a few hours talking with someone -- anyone -- who comes from a Communist country and ask them about this.
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It's like having Cotton Mather as your research assistant: brilliant, but constantly interjecting unsolicited preachy meta-sermons scolding the framing of your question, and all the while pretending this framing is well known and widel
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There was another step: Leibniz' pre-limits formulation of calculus used hyperreal numbers: infinite and infinitesimals (small-delta) numbers. This version is conceptually simpler and for many people more intuitive than the limits-base
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That's correct. US zoning laws have banned the construction of dense urban neighborhoods and required car-centric suburban neighborhood plans since about World War II. Mandatory density limits and setbacks and numbers of parking spaces
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In the United States, there is case law[1] establishing that an exact replica of artwork that is itself in public domain is not eligible for copyright protection, because "originality" is a necessary element for copyright protecti
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At a broader level, TCP/IP was just one of many competing networking technologies. Nobody master planned which one would win. That emerged organically through gradual decentralized convergence as many individual actors concluded TCP&#x
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Hume uses the example of the sun rising: though the sun has (so far) always risen in the east, there is no logical reason to assume that it will _necessarily_ do the same tomorrow tomorrow. Though we can reasonably plan for this as the most
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As David Hume points out, you don't actually know you'll be hungry tomorrow. You assume you will be based on induction from similar past events, but this is not certain. (He does concede that it's reasonable to plan as if it
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Ticketmaster works "well enough" that venues have no compelling reason to switch. A startup may offer a "10% better" set of features, but that's not enough for the venue to justify the large switching costs and larg
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OP said they are disgusted with politics and bureaucracy. Non-profits are (if possible) EVEN WORSE on those axes than commercial businesses. Since there is no profit-driven forcing function, ALL operations devolve into pure politics and bur
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All real family trees are not tree-shaped but diamond-shaped due to inbreeding (often very distant), a phenomenon geneaologists call "pedigree collapse": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse
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San Francisco was very much a late night city at least into the 1940s -- check out the historic posters hanging at the Fairmont Hotel advertising various live shows that _started_ at midnight.
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Exactly the opposite of this happened. Almost all content on the early-mid 90s web was user-generated. The bulk of it was personal "homepages" with low production values describing hobbies or technical interests. Very few large co
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Many ads at the time still used a strategy of "reasoning with the reader": explaining the technical benefits of the product, and how using it would make your life better in some way. Sometime around the 90s, most advertising gradu
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Soundcard-like devices called "audio interfaces"[1] -- now usually USB breakout boxes -- are alive and well in the professional audio segment, targeted at musicians, recording studios, video editing shops, and similar applications
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You're supposed to carry around a purpose-built business card holder case. After the meeting, you carefully place the cards into your case and take them with you for later reference.
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If someone is not qualified as an expert on a given topic themselves, they have no rational basis for evaluating competing and mutually incompatible claims generated by two parties who are each qualified experts. The process devolves into m
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This is called a "martingale" betting strategy. It's been extensively studied in probability theory. If you had infinite wealth and the casino would let you bet forever, it would work, but in real life neither of these condit
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Today's chat systems are far more accessible to people with minimal to no technical background. Install an app on your phone and you're good to go. Almost anyone can and does use them. The level of technical knowledge required to
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This is pretty much the world we live in now. True aficionados who devote time to discovering, analyzing, and sharing actual quality -- not because they expect to make money from doing so, but simply because they like that category. Untold
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Setting a timer yourself to remind you of some future important event is a very different proposition than what most people mean when they say "notifications": allowing an ever-growing constellation of commercially motivated ad sa
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"I am about 200 feet southeast of the large monument in the center of the park, wearing a red shirt" "From the XYZ Street beach entrance, we're about 100 yards north, with a blue umbrella." Using realtime GPS tracki
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Do people really need minutely updates on your bike ride? What value does it add to anyone's life to know what exact block you're on for the next 15 seconds? Just tell them your final destination verbally, and you're done.
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In this case, Apple's culture changed to match NeXT's.
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Even if they are, that would be irrelevant, a "tu quoque fallacy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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It's worth noting that even people who have been spoiled still usually find it _extremely hard_ to beat NetHack.
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Even if one happens to approve of the conditions under which personal data is being managed _right now_, even if one happens to approve of the current administrators and thinks they're entirely benevolent, there is no way to know who w
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This is because the people who want a Unix-like operating system that doesn't require manual following of guides after purchase to get basic features working all self-select out of your user pool and go buy a MacBook.
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This is why most people just buy a MacBook: it should not be necessary for the user to read, do, or configure _anything_ to make suspend mode work properly and not drain 30% of your battery overnight.

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