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811.
by thriftwy 3y ago
How do you lower rents without add more properties to market or reducing locale desirability?
812.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder if it is cheaper to buy every disabled person an Uber pass than refit large subway systems to make them accessible.
813.
by thriftwy 3y ago
The problem with Tolstoi is that he seemed to take adversarial propaganda at the face value. The truth is, not only your government is doing the fishing.
814.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I hope somebody told them that Russians (having a life) do not watch or read propaganda all day long so the window of interaction is actually quite narrow... That can invalidate a lot of assumptions.
815.
by thriftwy 3y ago
People who already have a home and can afford their healthcare?
816.
by thriftwy 3y ago
The point being, what's the pi-ation of pi.
817.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder if we could switch to "ation scale" where every number is notated as fractional N-ation required to make it. Then we can fit any natural number we use betwern 3 and 4, and even BB numbers will not be very scary. We get th
818.
by thriftwy 3y ago
WinFS failed because users do not care that much about local files. Cloud is everything. Local files are even easier to lose and even harder to search than cloud.
819.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I'm not sure that the stuff in Ilyin's books is any worse than stuff in any philosophy books of XX century. French philosophers openly praised Mao and don't get me started on Heidegger...
820.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Putin tried to be friends with Bibi, while Israel bombed Russia's Syrian allies where they see fit, and paid lip service to Ukraine. In fact, still tries in the face of accusations that are flying around.
821.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Russia has (had?) good relations with Israel, despite a large number of differences with it. Then again, Russia would definitely benefit from the conflict if it heats up further.
822.
by thriftwy 3y ago
It was during these times when a significant chunk of American establishment and some members of British royal family were not less fascist leaning than him. I understand that they're also all not vogue now, but it still has to be remi
823.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Not to be confused with Ivan Ilyin or with Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin).
824.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Axioms are not wrong if you can derive some math from them. They may not correspond to anything in our world, and then we usually discover something that does.
825.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Why would I prefer contemporary paintings or movies?
826.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Late XX century onwards is the age of non-fiction. Why would I read fiction set in Somalia or Gaza when I can read genuine-ish journalist reports or plain old Wikipedia? After all, we know that fiction writers were often clueless about the
827.
by thriftwy 3y ago
The cited plot sounds so bullshit. If you try to interfere with USSR industrialization in 1930s, you're going to GULAG camp very fast and local NKVD are happy that they don't have to invent fake saboteurs this month to fill their
828.
by thriftwy 3y ago
That you can do trivially even today. Just show your web site using in-browser VNC client.
829.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Is it a reissue of LUNA/TERRA? What is the nation which recognizes their statehood? Russian Empire did recognize pre-Japanese colonization Korea likely, I don't see how this implies Russian Federation having any relations with thi
830.
by thriftwy 3y ago
They can have a different set(s) of CJK characters outside BMP. There's plenty of room if they are confident they need these. Or perhaps some combining characters to turn a C character into Japanese preferred form, etc.
831.
by thriftwy 3y ago
CJK countries had 25 years now to either work with Unicode WG or roll out their own approach. I'm not sure who can do that for them if they live with Unicode en masse.
832.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder whether it is assumed that personal data has to come in a superset of Latin. I wonder if EU banks have to render your CJK name correctly, or a cyrillic one if their customer happens to be Bulgarian. And use that without falling bac
833.
by thriftwy 3y ago
They also did very un-Microsofty thing where the software will need to be rewritten and rebuilt for every new version (Windows CE -> Windows 7 -> Windows 8). They ditched backwards compatibility. Perhaps they expected they will see so
834.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Used to program for the thing. Even ported POWDER roguelike to it in my spare time.
835.
by thriftwy 3y ago
It can be a ban from being a pilot though.
836.
by thriftwy 3y ago
You cannot expect to be paid the same amount of money by the same size audience when the supply increases dramatically. Recording industry got this lesson 20 years back.
837.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Imagine if eyesight or cardiovascular tests depended on self-reporting.
838.
by thriftwy 3y ago
That's a good start - I've seen negotiations that started off worse.
839.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder if we could produce some toys for Orcas and then offer these to them to induce bonding, then try communicating.
840.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Even if it is 700 * 3 = 2100, Israel will be almost out of range, provided that the entirety of flight is over Saudi Arabia. So I would really want to have any independent verification.

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