dointheatl

> everything's been looted and burned down

There may yet be hope that a few stores survived. Possibly even a village or hamlet. In the vast rubblescape that is now France.

it is bad to see 'good thing / bad thing' as the only available frame

Rejecting the premise: who says they fixed it properly?

I read it as an acknowledgement that while improvement is possible, the requisite effort will in reality never be expended

I don't think you get it, OC tried the trackpad in a MicroCenter. It's game over.

> what's the deal with making the distinction between domestic mass surveillance and foreign mass surveillance? Are there no democracies aside from the US?

I think it's just saying that spying on another country's citizens isn't fundamentally undemocratic (even if that other country happens to be a democracy) because they're not your citizens and therefore you don't govern them. Spying on your own citizens opens all sorts of nefarious avenues that spying on another country's citizens does not.

You know this isn't the only thing Michelangelo painted, right?

It doesn't seem to know how to handle pawn promotion. It told me it was an illegal move and that I'd lost the game.

> Also, it's pretty clear that cities are too large for our social apparatus

Citation needed? Humans have been living in cities for thousands of years.

Highly recommend The Border Trilogy as well as No Country for Old Men. The Coen Brothers did a fantastic job adapting the latter, but it just can't compare to the book.

> Even if you read the code, you have to trust that the code you read is the code a service is actually using.

Don't forget to verify the code for the compiler to ensure that hasn't been compromised in order to inject an exploit into the binary at compile time.

I want to know more about that pen sculpting tool they're using.

I was listening to a podcast with Jason Sudeikis and he said that they specifically brought it up several times because they knew that later in the same episode they would be doing a riff on the Allen Iverson "we talking about practice" speech.

The implication being that Boeing wanted to ship this plane on time, even if that meant cutting corners on safety, except that it isn't an implication because it is literally what happened.

Unlikely to be the same blanket, as Amazon did not request that I send it back to them as I recall.