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the2and7··on No one knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system works
Blogging on Twitter has to stop.
the2and7··on Why do we round corners?
68000 processor on the Mac didn't support floating point operations.
the2and7··on Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll
not really.

From wikipedia:

The scenarios in which tyranny perception occurs are very specific, involving a sort of distortion of democracy preconditions:

- Centralization: when federation makes a decision that should be local. => NOT THE CASE.

- Abandonment of rationality: when a decision "which bases its claim to rule upon numbers, not upon rightness or excellence"

Unless you argue taxing is irrational.

the2and7··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
> First, the correct design was not obvious. For centuries, progress was stalled because inventors were all trying to create multi-person four-wheeled carriages, rather than single-person two-wheeled vehicles. It’s unclear why this was.

In the 1800, most people were poor, and any transportation should be aimed for people with some level of wealth, who would not like to labor to drive themselves around.

the2and7··on With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2M text messages
> non-US people living outside the United States believed to have national security relevant communications. These people do not have Fourth Amendment protection.

How come Julian Assange has second amendment protection?

the2and7··on Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
I get cold sores when I fly commercial airlines.
the2and7··on Paul Allen has died
what!? no! DLBCL is treatable. 30% of patients recover 100%. he recovered once from the disease.
the2and7··on Paul Allen has died
DLBCL is a very aggressive disease with a 5-year survival of ~60%. he was a relapse case from 2009. I'd say he took great care of his condition to have extended his survival to almost 10 years.