It usually holds many times its solid weight in water. If you add load to it by building something on it (without designing around the ground conditions) it can compress to a fraction of its volume, resulting in ground settlements that can be very large.
People keep saying it’s the parents responsibility to keep their kids safe, and don’t give them the tools! This is such an obvious one. I should be able to lock down a laptop for a child, and then have the browser limit websites to those that are actually child safe. I don’t care if a government agency is the one issuing “child safety certs”. This gets around the whole “identify everyone no matter what” thing, and it means that parents don’t have to run an entire IT department level of security infrastructure to keep their kids safe online.
Totally agree with this. I don't understand how those organizations aren't "bucket shops" which have basically been illegal in the states since the 1920s. As bad as they are, at least it's really hard to move the stock market, and very illegal to do it in most of the dishonest ways you can think of. With prediction markets we have people betting on the words they will themselves say...
See here, I’m just a poor NFL Championship farmer. Without these futures to give me some certainty around prices, it’s just too risky to plant these crops. You city folk think that NFL Championships grow in your fancy stadiums, and you never see all the work I put into feeding and watering all these athletes. It’s risky enough as it is, the crop can fail due to weather, or even something so small as Dave forgetting to wear his lucky socks when a game is on.
Pretty much my only issue with CarPlay is that I can’t seem to set the map so that north is up. It turns everything into “third right ahead” instead of “this is just 2 blocks east of that coffee shop I was at last week”.
I only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?
Aren’t you just remembering specific numbers though? Unless you’re trying to boil water unseen so that you can only see a thermometer, the specific 100°C mark isn't that useful.
I actually came around to Fahrenheit for the exact same reason. 0°F and 100°F are kind of the top and bottom of the temperature range I’m going to be experiencing and anything outside that is waaay too hot or cold. In Celsius a large portion of people have to flip to negative numbers regularly during the normal year, and everything between 45°C and 100°C is completely unused.
I think people can imagine lighter cars and laptops and things. Is there something bizarre that’s unlocked like battery powered space launches or something?
In England they still use imperial for some things, like miles, mph and mpg for cars, pints for drinks etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if shooting still used yards as well.
The wealth of the ultra rich isn’t sitting in a checking account or a Robinhood trading account. There’s a lot of it in stuff that’s lying around and most likely it’s not even all in the country. Wealth isn’t sitting in a global database that can be queried.
I’d like to think it was actually some kind of neutral, non-harmful clay, but I guess the problem with clay is it can be made of whatever is in rocks, which is basically anything.
The lift to make your own website is so low now, and the benefits of future-proofing are so great that it's just the right decision to make. You don’t even have to drive all your readers there, you’ll just have it available for everyone if the audience ever decides to gradually move on from substack (which seems to happen pretty much every social media platform).