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·8 mesi fa·discuss
> Talking about “thousands of tonnes” of nuclear waste is comically misleading when you realise how tiny the volume is.

You’re mixing mass and volume here. From what I can tell, their numbers were essentially right. Are you saying we don’t have thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste produced?
interestica
·8 mesi fa·discuss
We have all lost functionality of a device we paid for after an update. You can’t fault a user for avoiding it. It’s the root that should be addressed.
interestica
·8 mesi fa·discuss
This was genuinely innovative and intriguing. Did the numbers just not work out for manufacturing or some other thing get in the way?
interestica
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Having representation based on land/physical space will increasingly be seen as absurd.

Maybe we will have “youth reps” in the future. Or reps based on other organizing group (hunters? Musicians?). The problem is…taxonomical? People won’t have to belong to a single group but can belong to several “unions”.
interestica
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Share yours!

I use this as a bookmarklet to grab the front page of the new york times (print edition). (You can also go back to any date up to like 2011)

I think they go out at like 4 am. So, day-of, note that it will fail if you're in that window before publishing.

    javascript:(()=>{let d=new Date(new Date().toLocaleString('en-US',{timeZone:'America/New_York'})),y=d.getFullYear(),m=('0'+(d.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2),g=('0'+d.getDate()).slice(-2);location.href=`https://static01.nyt.com/images/${y}/${m}/${g}/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf`})()
interestica
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I was incorrect here. The letters were all from december 61 to jan 62.
interestica
·10 mesi fa·discuss
You are absolutely right! The couple from 62 are correct.
interestica
·10 mesi fa·discuss
They had a long history of correspondence. The preceding letter is archived and you can probably get a copy. (https://bracers.mcmaster.ca/79128)

> Jan 6/1962 Re nuclear disarmament and world government. BR is not inclined to agree or disagree with Mosley's views, but he does think that Mosley is "rather optimistic" in his expectations. BR provides criticism of his main two objections. (A polite letter.)

> Jan 11/1962 Mosley wants to lunch privately with BR about their differences.

These are basically all the letters exchanged with Mosley:

https://bracers.mcmaster.ca/bracers-basic-search?search_api_...
interestica
·10 mesi fa·discuss
If you’re really interested in his works and correspondence, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario holds the Bertrand Russell archives.

Some stuff is online. Here’s a curated collection of some really interesting letters sent to him:

https://dearbertie.mcmaster.ca/letters
interestica
·3 anni fa·discuss
They don't need to revoke a license. They can say the "license verification servers are too expensive to keep running" so you need to rebuy the product. This is literally what Adobe has done with previous versions of their Creative Suite.
interestica
·3 anni fa·discuss
This is extra useful if your mornings are left for you to continue working on any problem where you had the chance to "sleep on it".
interestica
·4 anni fa·discuss
Can someone easily renounce their drivers license in advance?
interestica
·5 anni fa·discuss
> Buffer bloat killed cybernetic synchronicity.

There's something very interesting about this concept of "cyber-sync" - when is now? Is your now different from mine?
interestica
·5 anni fa·discuss
Thanks for these recommendations/descriptions/reviews.

>I worry a little about gun games and inclusivity, but it's the only app that's consistently allowed the 8 of us to get together without spending 30 minutes troubleshooting.

Interesting pivot/fork for them - spin out a vr-group-chat service. 'Population 8'? ha
interestica
·5 anni fa·discuss
Look up/try 'reverse sear': slow/low cook in oven. Finish in cast iron. I don't eat meat but I've had a few friends rave about it.
interestica
·5 anni fa·discuss
Where/How do you hang out?
interestica
·6 anni fa·discuss
heads up, I get a invalid cert/ssl error when connecting via https.

I'm really happy to see art-as-foundation for your technology work!