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You ship them in a box with one sticker applied to the side, of course. #inception

As the article about epistemology posted yesterday mentioned, at some point, a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind.

But somehow dogs don't seem to care too much about armpits, in spite of being smelly and warm.

Good god, it's called the crotch.

The prose in this article is as crispy as the chips they describe... Some sort of crispception.

It does seem like GP has not heard of the ant and the grasshopper fable, though.

The Canada Pension Plan is not a proper pension plan, which is why in the 1970-2000 period, good employers offered good pension plans. Now everything is matched RRSP contributions if you're lucky. It's possible that housing costs will never come back down; now that the housing bubble has pushed way beyond the metros, "just sell your downtown house and move to the suburbs" is not a retirement strategy anymore, if it ever was. (Bloody London, ON is getting a fat influx of Torontonians seeking cheap housing! That's nuts!)

So people should either be buying a house that they can afford not to lose in a downtown, and/or put some good money in their RRSP. The earlier, the smarter.

Ils auraient pu l'appeler la 2CE!

Or you know, we can determine that the cost of keeping people healthy is a social good and invest in that. I don't think we need market indicators to show that we don't want people to die. And we know that that market signal distorts the needs addressed so that chronic alleviation things get more attention than one-time cures...

It's not because they have been trying to forever that they aren't going for another big push right now. Attorney General William Barr is spearheading an active campaign on this, it was headline news here a few weeks ago. Don't be complacent.

A few years ago, a friend of mine summarized Margaret Hamilton's contributions to computing; the post went pretty viral (it sat atop this very site), enough that some other people made copy-cat posts. A couple years later she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I don't think the two events were disconnected...

You can also read WaPo by carefully timing a click on your browser's Reader Mode icon when the article loads. (The icon disappears once it detects that you're not a subscriber, so you need to snipe it)

In industrial societies, we re-invested about 20% of our GDP into production capital; under Stalin, that percentage was closer to 40%. That diminished after he died, to improve people's quality of life, but at the expense of overall productivity improvement.

> customers are very averse to potential scams on the internet. They quickly notice if a company is pretending to be something it’s not, and they remember that the company was misleading for a long, long time.

You mean all 30 people who clicked on your ad? It's not like you're throwing $30K in AdWords for this...

It's been 5 years, and the Eurogroup destroyed the Greek economy. I don't think it's unfair to now reveal the contents of these discussions. It's high time to see if it was corruption, or compromise, which happened.

I love Twitter this way, which is built "offline first". Twitter will let you read everything in your timeline that you have previously downloaded, let you reply to and like as many tweets as you want, and never complain about lack of connectivity. It'll just dutifully queue your requests and act on them once you're back online. It's one of the only connected apps properly usable on the subway.

Actually no. The title got my attention, and reading through rid me of any illusions I was harbouring about encrypted emails. (Granted, there weren't many left, but anyway.) A title like "Encrypted messaging apps like Signal preferred over PGP" what have been glossed over. At some point you have to tell technologists that their bad advice to people who really need the technology could get the latter killed/imprisoned/tortured.

Either they are secure, or they are not.

And there I was expecting that it had a buried bottom half, making it the shape of a D8...

Sooner? Two 737-MAX8s have gone down already!

Stylish!

I used to keep a fake password sticky on my monitor to make people like you lose it. :)

They're not embedded, but they're linked... Is linked content not part of the article?

> 92 to 184 teragrams of carbon dioxide

Usually emissions of CO2 are measured in tons... This is a sneaky measurement change. wtf is a teragram? Okay, turns out it's a million tons, or as we used to call it, a megatonne. WHYYY

No wonder the Québec government swooped in and mandated a government POS terminal for the food service industry. :)

That's the thing with Germany, they have a management-labour relations regime that is collaborative rather than combative... Management has accepted that they can improve their productivity if they work with their labour unions rather than against them. Employees get treated better and management gets good productivity out of their workers. Everyone wins. I wonder what it would take to introduce this model to North American companies without state coercion...

> Storing conversations is introducing a massive security hole.

Sure, but that could be up to every sender to decide whether they want their messages to be view once/view for 24hrs/store forever.

> coating them with a common substance

Covering stamps in clear glue so that your correspondent could remove the cancelling stamp when steaming them off the envelope for eventual re-use was something that was commonly discussed during the heyday of the zine scene in the 1990s. Now postage has become so obscenely expensive again for anything beyond a letter that maybe I should get back into the glueing trade... :P

That's what usually happens. Amusingly, in the form of Amazon gift cards (so you go out and buy more products for review...)

You can do all this manually, but really you just described a form of machine learning.