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Seems like all the payphones and newsstands are really gone now, e.g. https://maps.app.goo.gl/2vZUGBxvSgdpcdju6
As with "automatic memory collection" for those grossed out by "garbage collection."
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/3053/cutting-boards.html?fi...
I saw the movie in high school in the '00s, very faithful to the novel and the casting was even more amazing reading the book (which is 90% of directing, according to Scorsese (who was introduced to De Niro by De Palma)), and to me surpasses the source material. Hits harder as a linear narrative.
The book I read before was from 1985: I started it while the author was still alive but he died before I finished it. The book I read before that was from 1998.
Rocket science is one of the few industries that's actually seeing active innovation.
Software isn't made of physical materials anyway, it's speech. How about instead we impose open source requirements to enable public verification of critical systems?
What prevents regulatory capture?
Just mandate open source if using public money.
But it looks like phylotypic animal body plans may have originated in cell aggregates before the development of the egg:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.21417
https://reason.com/2021/07/14/maine-becomes-4th-state-to-rep...
Same with exclusionary zoning. State laws can strike down Euclid. SB 9 in California appears to move in that direction: