Wait it’s not April?

You're not familiar with the internationally recognized Day of the Joker every 11/11?

Probably it means that now we have evidence that… it is a colloquialism

Edit: yep, The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.

People talking about efficiency are missing the point - the pedals are only there so it gets classified as an e-bike and not an electric motorcycle (so no license required, registration, taxes, can drive in the bike lane) and doesn’t have the jerky handling of an e-bike with the wheels mechanically linked to the pedals.

They never really intend for you to turn the pedals. It is a regulatory thing.

I’ve seen it fail, having tried it for a few years. There’s a type that passes this no problem but isn’t productive.

I switched to a battery of knowledge questions centered on the type of programmer I was looking for, it works much better and is even predictive of coding ability as it helps you learn this stuff.

There's not much ways you can spot a skilled but unproductive BSer from interviews.

The trouble is, there would also be no unsolved thought crimes

Another problem is that “crime” is a very flexible term and when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Also the legal system specially in the US likes to equate convictions with solved cases which is not always the same.

Not enough connections to the bureaucracy…

At least in the USA it’s legal to record public spaces. So recording the street and things that can be seen from it is legal, but pointing a camera over your neighbors fence is not.

And a lot of people don't share that opinion, so this isn't the law in a lot of countries. When you wanted to suggest that it is a problem, that US companies try to extend the law of there home country to other parts of the world, then I endorse that.

Traditional gliders also carry ballast for cross country flights, which increases their speed without negatively impacting their glide ratio.

Really? That seems counter intuitive.

Everyone has a different peeve, and they all conflict. That’s why population density correlates with regulation.

regulation itself is fine. However the details matter and all too often the regulation is in the wrong place. Writing good regulations is hard. There are always unintended concequences, and most are not even willing to ask what they might be much less debate if we can/should accept them.

That's the real underlying current in all this - most people just don't give a shit one way or the other, so nothing much is going to move.

Which is why it's easy to get everyone together and ban backyard chickens because the whole town is sick of Bob's fucking rooster - but much harder to get them to unban them decades later.

Even better, once I had a financial institution tell me I needed to read them a one time code someone would text me. They were actually surprised I had a problem with it when it’s the scam playbook.

Isn't that just 2fa? It's not limited to web.

In a way, but this was also on an incoming call, and the text came from yet another number, there were a lot of red flags despite being legitimate.