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The Jack Chick Tract somehow makes me want to use regex to parse html:

https://lexica.art/prompt/64a384bd-d1b2-4f79-8921-f71737c70d...

Georgeism has my vote.

How do we get to SALSA (https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/millennials-zoomer...) ?

Anonymous proof of stake?

If background is pretty much the deciding factor, the stumble from “reliance” to “over-reliance” is foredoomed.

Dark Energy astrophysics.

Scaling.

Is this section of Jabra's FAQ new? https://www.jabra.com/supportpages/jabra-elite-85t/100-99190...

While reading the introductory paragraphs, I experienced a pleasing uncertainty: is this an homage to Borges, to Nabokov? Are the familiar names -- Thiel, Weyl, Posner -- merely there to provide substance to a New Yorker piece? But, this is the New Left Review, so ...

Request: a tables-turned test, usable for candidates to filter asshole employers.

"What's time to a pig?"

That is, what is the scarce resource for oyster mushroom leather, given that forestry requires a dozen years?

> I assume the reporting on the case is really bad, because if that is literally the reason he is being sued it would be outrageous.

mikeryan's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070389) includes a link to an actual complaint.

> His voicing his opinion for the show.

The plaintiffs claim that Alex Jones was `not` voicing his opinion.

#9 in the Sandy Hook complaint (https://drive.google.com/file/d/12mHNXnFQo2nH555yJxC5JIEEeAo...) is ...

"Alex Jones does not in fact believe that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax -- and he never has."

Do you have evidence that Alex Jones' did, in fact, have the belief that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, at the time he made the statements?

> Doesn't sounds like a crime?

Defamation is not a crime, but it is a "tort" (a civil wrong, rather than a criminal wrong).

-- https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/defamation-law-made-....

Libel is criminal in 24 states.

-- https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/map-states-criminal-...

> I would also love to hear the justification.

Here's a link to the Wikipedia editors' terse description on curated lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_in_lists#S...

A fact you may not know is that the creator and his partner curated the two lists of words-accepted-as-guesses and words-eligible-to-be-daily-targets to remove so-called "Scrabble gibberish."

> why do you fear market forces would favour their lies over your alleged "truth"?

Plato gives Socrates' answer in Gorgias. http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/gorgias.html

> What specifically are you pointing out as the toxic behaviour?

I am not the the grandparent, but with your permission, may I ask you …

Do you agree that “pie-hole” is deprecatory?

Do you agree that the question “who cares what X says?” is likely dismissive rhetoric, rather than a genuine expression of interest in who the people are who pay attention to X?

Marcia: It’s from Waldo!

Enable "hard mode" in a future release, which, like Wordle's hard mode, rejects any guesses ruled out by previous answers.

0 is a digit.

Apparently I have stumbled over an idiom of the prime-enthusiast community.

Edit: Alas, the yellow and green square emoji are discarded.

⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛ ⬛

Partially interpreted:

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛

🟨🟨🟨⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

00003 is not a prime?

> Being a CEO is not that hard.

Being an extraordinary CEO is very difficult.

Question: are there any barriers to workers forming a collective and hiring Tim Cook to manage them at, say, 1399 instead of 1400?

> What law do I or the state prosecute the seller under?

Start your research with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Arguably, bug bounties are always paid for by users. A vendor might write the bounty-winner’s check, but the source of the vendor’s funds is the vendor’s customers.

Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis overwrite compellingly, if the Goodreads excerpt is representative.

$3 is twelve plays at a 25¢ arcade game.

There’s no straightforward way to convert div-inserts-per-hour to value-added-per-hour.

The value a plumber creates by installing a toilet depends on the context of the installation.

> Houses are not zero-sum, as it's possible to build more.

Every newly-built house lowers the value of every already-built house. It is straightforward to specify initial conditions where the result is negative-sum.

Request for advice: I don't know Art Bell, though the name seems like one I have heard previously. Would you advise me to just start listening, or would you advise me to use a search engine first? As a guide to your advice, were it Andy Kaufman or Henry Fielding, the advice I'd want would be "just start watching" or "just start reading"; but if it were Robin Hanson, the advice I'd want would be "read this report about Hanson at the academic philanthropy meeting first."