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A warning about the linked copy: this isn't the standard text of Bradbury's story. I compared it with three other circulating copies and this version is only about 1,016 words versus ~2100. Notable omissions:

- the opening description of the empty house and the clock repeating into the silence

- almost the entire passage about the house's paranoid defenses, including its reactions to animals

- the dog searching the room for its owners, the pancake smell that attracts it, and the cleaning machines disposing of the body

- most of the nursery sequence, the artificial meadow, insects, animals, sounds, smells, jungle rain, receding landscape

- the cigar, warmed beds, much of the house's evening routine

- the fire consuming the Picassos and Matisses

- most of the extended description of the house dying

- much of the final image of dawn, rubble, etc

Worse, some passages are crudely compressed rather than deleted, e.g. the elaborate breakfast disposal, the chemical firefighting robots description.

Anyone encountering the story through this post should find another copy. This one appears to be an unlabelled, severely abridged, and rather badly corrupted version.

The date filters seem to be ignored for certain search terms and not others. Searching for, say, "dune before:2019-04-05" filters as expected, but searching for current events proximate terms like "iran" or "donald" returns results that disregard the date ceiling completely.

Are the touchbar Macbook Pros still experiencing widespread screen delamination? I thought that was specific to the previous generation.

Hairspray won't do it alone, but hairspray mixed with lipstick and perfume will be toxic, and untraceable.

I wonder if this proposal will be remembered by our successors and their counterparties when the time comes.

Blue Origin has actually been around longer than SpaceX. Both companies were also rans of the first XPrize.

Would the increase in time critical public awareness had that thread not been deleted have made a difference? Perhaps the chance that it could should outweigh the urge for propriety in future admin decisions.

Check out Greg Egan's Permutation City in which sort of the opposite happens.

What astounds me is that this project is called LiMux and not Munix.

The distinction between comments and link titles feels a little false because there's no obligation to link to the root of the primary source document chain, if there even is a canonical primary source for a given story. A submitter could legitimately wrap a link in a thin blog post on their own site and achieve the same effect.

I wonder if the disdain is for the idea of machine made Turkish coffee, or because there's some factor creating variance in the bubbling times for which the machines aren't compensating.