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These recent articles around the Thanksgiving holiday are making me realize just how little I know about the early colonial period of the Americas.

Are there any books on the period yall would recommend?

I play AoE2 (non-DE) on Linux with Steam and its compatibility tool.

First I've heard of Sandstorm[0]. Very interesting, I need to give this a try soon.

0: sandstorm.io

Los Angeles is spread out because it had functional mass transit at the turn of the last century. The Red Car interurban line sprawled out from downtown into the county and housing popped up six blocks on the side from every stop. Later mass car ownership filled in the blocks further out and the space in-between stops.

In that same period, just about every large town and small city had a trolley line.

You don't need skyscrapers for mass transit. Just enough political will to keep it funded.

Yes, Nagasawa isn't the sort of character one should want to emulate in real life.

Evolutionarily, it'd be the other way around.

If members of a high caste are guaranteed wealth and many children, then there is no selective pressure for intelligence.

Likewise, if lower caste members struggle to survive, then there is a strong selective pressure for intelligence and problem solving.

OP's comment wasn't about Woz specifically but the population of potential Wozs who, but for a few hundred dollars, could have contributed something great to the world but didn't.

Right now a generation of young people in the United States are completely priced out of going to college, or facing eviction from COVID related layoffs. The slightly older cohort are seeing a much higher proportion of their wages go to high rents and student loan debt than Woz's generation.

As a society, we're are missing out on bottom up innovations because would be inventors are too busy trying to survive than to create.

Another good point from Kim Stanely Robinson is 2312's constructing habitats from hollowed out asteroids. Way easier than refining and moving so many tons for steel to build a habitat from scratch.

I also love the ecological designing of each habitat -- whether to go with recreating a (likely lost) natural habitat or to create a new "Ascension".

The YouTube alt-right pipeline is well documented.

ACM study: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3351095.3372879

MIT Technology Review summary of the study: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/29/276000/a-study-o...

NYTimes feature: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo...

For those interested, check out this training film for B-17 gunners voiced by Mel Blanc, better known for his role as Bugs Bunny.

https://youtu.be/vtgAyGa79F8

I wonder how accurate they'll keep the shooting mechanics. As a casual player, I never would have thought to aim three crosshairs to the side of a Messerschmitt coming side-on.

An any other forum I'd reply to this with a gif of the mayor from Jaws.

Downvoting is for cowards.

That article has very thin gruel for "taking marching orders from Pelosi": not endorsing some people and asking for civility in Twitter feuds.

Be skeptical of anything written by the National Review about progressives.

It's infuriating how many articles on niche software were (still are?) deleted. It's a modern day burning of the Library of Alexandria!

Set theory and graph theory came up often in my undergraduate operating systems and computer organization classes. I imagine it'd be even more so for graduate level classes.

That's honestly more impressive for creativity sake!

FizzBuzz is just an example of the general problem of "given a set of things, do something to a subset of those things" which comes up often in real world settings. If you knew enough to set up a loop and apply some conditional inside of it, then you passed better than some of the programmers I've worked with.

Nuclear weapons made military sense in the days when hundreds of bombers would fly to hit a specific factory or base and have a slightly better than even chance of doing real damage to the objective. Is there still a need for this weapon when we can launch cruise missiles with meters of accuracy?

Many drivers are commuters from the suburbs who drive in the morning, park inside or very near their office building, and drive home in the evening. The downtowns of many US cities are completely dead after "working" hours.

Fossil fuels are much more subsidized than nuclear power.

Malcom Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast did an episode[0] awhile back on how much better McDonalds fries tasted when they were cooked in beef tallow. Now that the "fat scare" of the 90s is over, would this be a good time to switch back? I don't know if frying in tallow improves their longevity, but it may be worth trying instead of yet another chemical additive.

[0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my...

People are downvoting but I appreciate this request because the transcript is very disorienting to read.

Planet Money used to be a great source for learning about the economy but has recently become unlistenable. For example, I tried listening to their Halloween episode about recessions but gave up after ten minutes of bad jokes and audio "fluff".

The bit about adblockers provides context on why this article is worth my attention. I'm not an extension developer, so "Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary" means nothing to me.

But this:

>The most controversial aspect of the extension manifest v3 is the upcoming changes to the webRequest API. In v3, Google has changed the API so that extensions can only monitor browser connections, but not modify any of the content before it's displayed.

>Instead Google wants developers to use the declarativeNetRequest API, which has the browser, not the extension, strip content or resources from a visited web sites. This API, though, has a limit of 30,000 rules that can be created.

>Unfortunately, this change will break popular ad blockers such as uBlock Origin, which rely on the original functionality of the webRequest API and need more rules than are available in the declarativeNetRequest API.

Is very worrying. So thanks to the submitter.

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This may seem fine on the micro level -- an individual working into their 70s, but is a disaster at the macro level -- a significant part of a workforce suddenly in their 80s.

Senior workers tend to hold senior positions. A 65-er retiring frees a slot for someone in their 40s to move up, which frees a slot for someone in their 20s to take their prior role. Fewer retirements slow advancement for the rest of the workforce and drives out younger workers with skill to seek their fortunes elsewhere.

When that cadre of octogenarians finally starts dropping, the organization will be rushing to fill senior roles with mid-level employees, leaving a big gap to fill for the middle and entry levels.

They would be making closer to 3000 every two months instead of 300. It wouldn't be a utopia, but it'd be a lot better than if we hadn't bled Latin America dry for our benefit.

My point is that a factory moving overseas isn't some platonic transaction. There is a history and a context to why labor is so cheap and regulations are so lax.

The CIA under Eisenhower overthrew the government of Guatemala when trade unionists were elected on the promise of eight hour workdays and better conditions for field workers.

What do you think the country would be like today if we hadn't killed the union leaders and installed a dictator friendly towards US business?

Rule of thumb I head somewhere is that union dues should be around half hour of wage per week, assuming full time employment. Not sure what it would be for part timers.

They may have been referring to "tilt and turn" style windows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT8eBjlcT8s) which I saw everywhere in Germany but I've never seen in the US.

Too bad, they're pretty great.

Those are much fewer than cars and without them blocking the road emergency vehicles can move much faster and without a thick layer of parking lining every street, commercial vehicles can have designated spots.

We need free medical school.

It's a tournament time format, typically 90 minutes per player with some amount of seconds added per move.

Other tournament time formats are "rapid" with 10 to 15 minutes per player, "blitz" of 3 to 5 minutes and "bullet" with 1 to 2 minutes.