cromulent

I think the UK is perhaps the home of such things. I for one would love to build a Caterham one day.

Yeah it was unforgettable. Also the Williams FW08B, but that was banned before racing.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/six-wheeled-formula-one-w...

Normally “toxin” refers to a natural poison produced by an animal or plant.

Creators have obligations. This is true whether they are legally enforceable or not.

I agree that funders should not expect a reward for their pledge.

However, it is simply not true that it is "obligation-free". This is inaccurate.

Kickstarter say:

> When a project is successfully funded, the creator must complete the project and fulfill each reward. Once a creator has done so, they’ve satisfied their obligation to their backers.

> The creator is solely responsible for fulfilling the promises made in their project. If they’re unable to satisfy the terms of this agreement, they may be subject to legal action by backers.

https://www.kickstarter.com/section4?ref=faq-basics_creatoro...

Ahem.

See also sulphur such as this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37008034

And also YC linked Make Sunsets:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startu...

And of course the excellent novel Termination Shock:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

Absolutely. Reminded me of Chris Pratt's famous P&R flu scene ad lib "Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems".

Tester at work calls them “defects”. Mostly they are “test findings” resulting from hallucinated specifications that don’t exist except in his mind, or misunderstandings from him not reading the documentation. Or data problems. It’s annoying having them called “bugs” let alone “defects”.

Reminds me of Yahoo! circa 2013, with the CEO deciding that of all the problems, the logo was the one to fix. Competition held, CEO's design won.

Sure, but is there any reason this cannot happen without NFTs?

I have bought assigned seat tickets online direct from venues without TM nor NFTs, worked fine.

I have also bought tickets to exhibitions (no seats nor assigned time) direct from venues online without TM nor NFTs, worked fine.

Seems that the only problem is TM and you won't make them go way with NFTs.

The Helsinki Foundation does this - in the constitution it states that the land use cannot be changed without permission from all donors, effectively giving each donor a veto right (and donations can be 1$).

I’m not a doctor but I do read articles and studies about how doctors can be wrong about hypertension.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/some-health-care-professiona...

https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1657

This article about TripAdvisor immediately comes to mind.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-to...

There has been discussion about the rudder targeting behaviour over recent years being one of the latest adolescent fads.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/attacking-boat...

Dr Karl (aussie science guy) got all the well-wishers to put their unsanitized finger into his eldest son's mouth on his birth day. Sample size 1, worked OK.

https://twitter.com/DoctorKarl/status/820944574906368000

Nice article, but highly editorialized title, not sure what is intuitive about it.

Some people will tell you though that they can eat anything and not put on weight - this is simply allowing others to do the same, right.

A vomitorium is simply the large exit pathway in stadia for rapid egress of many people. The idea that ancient Romans had facilities dedicated to vomiting has been debunked.

(2002)

I think this is the point of the client side check though - if the user makes a typo (e.g. gamil.com) then the client side validation can prompt them to check, before the server sends the validation email and annoys the owner of the typoed address.

Obligatory mention of the KLF burning a million pounds (for those who are unaware):

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

> A third will probably kick me out soon, because I’m not an EU citizen.

Give them a hard time about it.

"If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a basic payment account".

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...

> literally trillions of dollars worth of economic activity, per year, now and supposedly for the next 50 or 100 years, across the whole of Western civilization

I'm not sure what sort of model you used to arrive at this vague estimate, but:

Even if you assume AGW science is completely wrong and the effect is zero, humans have to move from fossil fuels to renewables/nuclear in that timeframe anyway, because we have 47 years of oil left. Whether it's 20 years or 80 years, still needs to happen.

For those who think left/right is enough: When you are racing sailboats, a boat on your “left” (or “right”) can have “right” of way because the wind is hitting their main sail from the “right” and yours from the “left”.

They will yell “starboard!” at you, rather than “left” or “right”. Easier that way.

Cable/chain ferries would not be able to turn around of course, the drivers would have to deal with it.

There's a photo of the new 3d scanners here (they remind me of a jet engine).

https://www.finavia.fi/en/newsroom/2022/new-technology-makes...

Yeah, they've had them for a year or so at Helsinki. Super fast and convenient. They have to re-educate everyone to not take your laptop out to keep things moving quickly.

JFK has one of the new machines, but I haven't seen them use it yet.

Surely if being tired was not about your brain, then sleeping would simply involve lying down, not being unconscious :)

Ten years ago the average mortgage length in Sweden was 140 years.

It's been limited to 105 years now, and the length has reduced. It's hard to imagine a market like that can be anything but dysfunctional.

https://www.thelocal.se/20160324/sweden-limits-mortgage-loan...

"The dose makes the poison", as Paracelsus said. Everything (including water and oxygen) is toxic at the wrong levels.