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I guess you were unaware of the fact that he worked in missile testing & development for years and years?

I think, though, that your example is less convincing, since the hour changes.

It's not asinine, it just depends on if you value ethics or growth.

The website header makes it look like this is called Covertone

The trick there, of course, is that you have to not want some of the stuff that sells out

Here in Montgomery County, MD, I am unaware of any high schools with a Field House. The idea that they're standard is just completely bizarre to me.

It's true, blind people are only considered disabled because of sighted people.

I am not sure this is the convincing argument you think it is, however.

You think they would have?

I dunno, the Internet Archive has no problem hosting other issues from the same year

Sadly, although the Internet Archive has several of that year's Wired issues scanned, they do not appear to have December.

You can read it in a collection of his writings (https://archive.org/details/someremarksessay00step/page/120/...) but that's not much different (and less accessible) than the link on this post.

But why? Why is that important?

The design is cool, but was any of it actually functional at all?

This is amusing, given that the Soviet newspaper was Pravda, or "Truth"

This is beautiful writing, worthy of the beautiful Olympic Peninsula, but the lines about "when the world was young" are misguided & misleading. It's only something closer to "when the world was as-yet unoppressed by foolish industrialism" or something like that.

If there were Roman stories of reaching a land across the sea that sounded a lot like North America, then you'd be right.

In his second book, Artemis, Weir manages to build a somewhat more complex character...but with the exact same voice as Watney. It's disappointing.

You've conflated might with right, I think. It's pretty clear the comment you're replying to was not judging this on financial terms.

I mean, it worked out great for the Instagram guys, right?

...aren't taxi drivers employees?

I think it's more just that because everyone assumes they have pointy ears, it's good to point out that the text doesn't say so. It's good to point out common assumptions, as it helps us realize the unconscious biases we bring to a text.

Update: They have actually received all of the 7000 series cars, and it's 60% of the fleet.

https://wamu.org/story/20/02/27/metro-just-received-the-last...

Yes, but it's less than half the active rolling stock. 538 vs 648 of the 7000 series, and and there are still 100 more 7000 series cars yet to arrive, which will lead to more retirement of the older cars. Once the 8000 series starts arriving in 2024, the end of carpeted trains (which will by then be...I dunno, less than a third of the cars?) will be very near.

Numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metro_rolling_stock

I've heard of them, but never actually heard their music.

That would be very-FSF of them.

Just that it's funny

Okay, but is it a good, useful programming language? In some ways, the long development timeline suggests a slower, more stable way of doing language changes that appeals a lot to me.

At least the interface is still the same colors, instead of the gross palette of the blog and their rebrand.

This is probably a good move, as "Firefox" has much better name recognition than "Mozilla"

This is true for any enforcement of laws though?

Why do you use "should" instead of "would"?