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That sentence shocked me. It was the last Gladwell sentence I read.

As a college student, I helped create this site in, I believe, 1994: http://pynchon.pomona.edu/ I don't know that I really count as an academic, but I think the site has survived because it's sitting on a university server.

The image links still work.

That Mediatek module is nice! Thanks for that, and for the wisdom.

I scanned through the 25-page unclassified report released a couple of days ago. I found no technical details, which I'm afraid means that the question devolves to whether you trust the FBI, CIA, and the NSA, (plus the non-technical arguments about Putin's motivations in the report, which I found reasonably compelling).

It seems to me that it would be difficult to get all three agencies to agree that Russia was behind the DNC email hack if that weren't true, so I suspect it's probably true, but not with great certainty.

The setup.py for Supervisor noted support for Python 3 starting in May of 2014: https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/commit/ad5cd0849a5f....

Here are the blocking issues for official support: https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/labels/python%203

I've been running it under Python 3 for a while with no problems.

I believe the answer is no.

You might be interested in monitoring this list of what gets closest: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers

Also, the Novena mainboard has a chance of getting there, if you look at this page: https://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page and then note that the Vivante GPU is close to having free drivers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Etnaviv-...

Here's the best current attempt at what you're imagining: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

Goddam fateless tickers. Why can't they just stay put?

"But plenty of people have permanently damaged their knees by consistently running without getting advice on how best to do it."

The people who read running boards all the time roll their eyes at stuff like this. Saying that running will hurt your knees is the running equivalent of "The GPL will infect your codebase." It's not true, but it sounds scary.

Usually, if you ask runners how to run, they will say something like, "It's not that complicated. Run more miles, slowly."

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/wi8zq/want_an_easy...

You are correct. But the setup.py for Supervisor noted support for Python 3 starting in May of 2014: https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/commit/ad5cd0849a5f...

I don't know why PyPI isn't updated yet.

The same is true for Supervisor. It has supported Python 3 for years.

Seems kind of like Zwrite: text-only, ephemeral messages. It was just text that appeared in your terminal session. My friends and I used it in (engineering) grad school in the late 90's.

Good god, there's still a manual online: http://web.stanford.edu/group/privacyproject/currentStateUni...

"They have no control over what text the message replaces, but can always press the key combination control-L to restore their screen."

"Hertz, son, it's hertz. Named after the old guy, Heinrich Hertz. Used to hang out at my hackerspace when I was a kid. Well, it was just a garage, but you know what I mean."

For all we can tell, you may have already done so.

It might be desirable to make data available to humans, but not bots, no?

"the functional elements of a 3D print can't be copyrighted"

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/23/demystifying-copyright-lice...

A company being successful doing X does not mean that X is what users want.

Some users probably want Google etc. to use all data available to improve their services, but some don't. The vast majority of those companies' users don't think about how the companies use their data at all. The services get better, sure, but I don't think the full price has yet been paid.

I think the 18 is counting 16 Epiphany cores plus 2 cores on the Zynq. The 64 is referring to a 64 core Epiphany chip that has only been made in prototype quantities, so far as I know.

I do business with verbal deals constantly in the US. I also do deals with written contracts, but in my experience, the cost to enforce a written contract through legal avenues means that they're not useful for most of my work.

Seems like if you rounded up to integer values of animals, the maintenance of the animals could be even cheaper, especially with the need for a freezer obviated. For integers >= 2, the animals may even display non-zero growth rates.

I agree. If I were a utility, I would be working hard to figure out how to be a storage broker, because if homeowners figure out storage without the utility, the utility will eventually be left with nothing other than large industrial consumers (which might be a decent business, but probably less than half the size of the utility's current market).

I would not. I prefer engineering, even for less money. It's not even close.

I think it's a typo for "goners."

I just got a Novena in the mail a few weeks ago, and today I assembled the switches of a Phantom keyboard [1] that I'm working on. Glad to hear that someone else has the same idea-- makes me feel less crazy!

[1]: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Phantom_instruction_guide

Agreed, good sir or madam!

Mostly agreed about your meta point. I think you're omitting the possibility that someone might be opposed to something that benefits them.

But in the non-meta discussion, all I'm saying is that you don't know which commenters are in which situation, and especially not with 95% certainty, like you claimed. Some of the commenters might oppose rent control, even though they benefit from it. Other commenters might strongly support rent control in San Francisco, even though they live in Wyoming. We just don't know.

I agree with you that we should agree to a set of rules without knowing our circumstances.

But the rest of your argument doesn't make sense. You've never met an SF real estate owner with a certain opinion, so you know something about most of them? There are at least 10,000 SF real estate owners. Have you talked to more than 0.1% of them? And even if you had, how would that help with your original claim that you can identify whether commenters in this thread were SF real estate owners or not?

How can you verify your assumptions about whether or not a commenter owns real estate?

For example, do I own real estate in San Francisco? I think your chances of getting that right are pretty close to 50%.

Ah, missed that. You're right.