Aethelwulf

> in China, city tiers are designated by policy and generally correlate to the quality of life for the middle class there

What are you basing this on? China does not have a "tier" system for its cities, and certainly not one based on "the quality of life for the middle class there".

didn't think that sam guy was that bad

You are confusing the initial construction with the long-term ownership. Most of the time, the corporation that builds the apartment block will sell the apartments, not continue to own them and rent them out.

Do people really look at their git commit history like this? Why?

The previous poster was most likely referring to an establishment in the tradition of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_kissa

https://uk.bookshop.org !

Mildly interesting that they are basically all self-help books. On that entire first page, I can only see one fiction book (about sixty down) - and of course, it is a comic book!

There are already white-label dating-site providers out there. Most of the "specialised" sites (e.g. uniform-wearers, "professionals") are running on them.

> Van Gogh was colorblind.

This seems to be speculation from a Japanese researcher who wrote a colour-blindness simulating app.

Do you have a reference for that discussion?

> There's also the small detail of pension funds generally being forbidden from investing in stocks.

Do you have a source for that? I've not heard that before.

Original source is user Pinpin on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homeric_Greece-en.sv...

I don't think that's an accurate description of the situation in London. There is almost unbridled development at the moment. It's going to markedly change how the city looks and feels. That's what people are reacting against.

If you watch rugby union, the commentators often remark how slow motion makes the tackle look worse than it is. I think it's a recognised phenomenon.

Has anyone else seen a big difference between the original AoE2 and the Steam re-release? I swear that the AI is barely aggressive anymore, even on the most difficult setting.

The Thatcher government was indeed very big on roads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_for_Prosperity

If your business deals with a lot of fraud, it's very useful to add it to your metrics.