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This was the first thing I noticed. Modern web development. You never know what you're going to get.

Lots of comments here about the Wikimedia Foundation's finances. You can get all that info here: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wiki...

You can also explore project usage statistics here: https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects

I think your best bet is to catalog them (using LT if you like) and try to sell them as a single collection. If there are any that you identify as particular powerful, maybe sell them separately. What's going to kill you is the shipping for a single collection. Maybe offer a discount for a local sale and pick up.

As a kid, I was involved in NASA's Junior Astronaut program around the time of the Challenger disaster. I will never forget the presentation where they had us hold one of the heat shield tiles in our bare hands while they blasted it with a blowtorch for several minutes. It just blew my mind that such a thing was possible.

If you follow with some of the "ancestral genetic memory" theories, this makes sense. Our species came about in a grassland punctuated by rocky outcroppings and trees. Trees and rocks often meant safety from the predators below. Open grass meant exposure on all sides. We don't really think of ourselves this way anymore, but not that long ago, humans sat more in the center of the food chain that we currently do.

No one wants to talk about where all of Softbank's money comes from?

I don't know if you meant this as a joke but it's one of the funniest things I've read on this site in a long time.

I regularly share this site with friends saying, "This is my favorite website on the Internet."

I rode my first Bird in Pacific Beach last week. They don't exist where I live. I just assumed that those trucks were contracted by the company somehow. I didn't know this whole charging economy existed.

I also saw a few drunken (or angry) [or both] people smash up a few of them as they walked down the street. I'd like to know how many they lose in this way.

Thank you for pointing this out. I'm always bemused at the overly complicated technical solutions proffered when a simple "pay a human a decent wage" solves the original problem and lots of other ones, too.

I'm envious.

Unless, you live in a town with no local bookstore, like I do. I can drive 20 minutes to a Barnes and Noble and that's my only option.

I stopped using AbeBooks when I stopped using Amazon. ThriftBooks and BetterWorldBooks are good alternatives unless you are on AbeBooks for antiquarian books.

This scientism approach to what is a problem of crumbling connections to our selves will get us nowhere. Instead of having the best minds of our generation flailing away at marginal gains within a flawed hypothesis, maybe we should embrace the Earth as the whole biological system that it is. These approaches are fixing the bruised elbow while the heart is laid bare and shooting spurts of blood onto the floor.

The people of the world experienced a brief glimpse of the freedom they've sold off only for the empty joy of knowing their neighbors are on vacation with their perfect children.

I feel like this could be an interesting device for a novel. It could tell the stories of all the people involved along the journey from its home to the palace of Frederick II.

I would suspect that like any production, it takes a bit for the audience's ears to adjust and then it likely goes largely unnoticed. As for critical reception, Crystal uses some of this linguistic approach to make very specific creative choices. I would imagine audiences and critics respond more to those choices than they do the linguistic reasons that led to them.

Interesting. Here I am trying to figure out what I can do to get out of technology at 40+.

Congrats on finishing school!

All I can think about is Clifford Simak's "City."

That pricing isn't too bad for SMS messages but it is VERY high for emails. Simplicity has value but I'm not sure it has that much value.

For humans our current time system works pretty well. But for machines and the software that manages them, our human implementation of time is rife with inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. All the edge cases certainly waste time and money and, at their worst, might even be life-threatening.

I came here to make this exact point. I would further state that in tech businesses, tools shift, interests shift, and markets shift. Smart employees respond to that regardless of how amazing their manager might be.

Elite marathoners are incredibly fast. It boggles the mind. But, for me, I'm more impressed by Camille Herron breaking the world record (men's and women's) for 100 miles in 12 hours, 42 minutes, and 39 seconds which is a 7:38/mi pace.

Running a 7:38 mile would be really fast for most adults, but to do it over 100 miles is unthinkable.

In the ultramarathon world, there is increasing attention being paid to PEDs. A lot of that focus is not on the physical benefits of the drugs, though that is important, but the focus is also on the mental benefits. That is, drugs that lower anxiety and/or increase focus can have greater benefits in a race that might last 20 hours. So, in my world, being physically able to run 50 or 100 miles is just table stakes. It's the mental game that makes the difference in whether you cross the finish line or not.

The NYT site and app are VASTLY superior to the Post's. I subscribe to both and find that I turn to the NYT more often because the reading experience is so much better.

Subscribing to the NYT will get you access to the Magazine and the archive which holds thousands upon thousands of articles that are more like what you describe here.

One thing not to miss when you get a subscription to the NYT, Washington Post, WSJ, or other large newspaper/magazine is the access to the archive of articles.

If you like long-form, feature-style articles instead of current events news, there is enough stuff in the NYT archives that you'd never be able to read it all.

Should I leave my Mac unattended until this is resolved?

If you go to the USAJOBS site and search for National Weather Service, you get about 270 results. If you then limit that to jobs that are open to the public, you get just under a hundred jobs. So, I think both sides are telling A truth.

The NWS says there are around 270 open positions. That is demonstrably true.

The union is saying there are about 700 open positions. They might think there are vacancies for which requisitions have not yet been made.

Perhaps, therein lies the discrepancy. And it speaks to the rest of the odd financing and accounting discussed in the article.

The ultimate humblebrag.