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The Libyan government barred foreign parties from owning domain names of three letters or less.

I think that saying that car sharing will be limited to the privileged metropolitan residents is short sighted, too. Services like Zipcar don't work well in less populated areas, because the cars are exactly where the previous person dropped them off. Autonomous cars would be able to relocate themselves to areas where they are needed, and could optimize their deployment very well especially if people scheduled in advance.

A good many of the linked articles are full of snark and vitriol, setting a poor example for the commentariat to follow.

I don't know if I could adapt to Emacs with another input device. Part of being good at Emacs is training your muscle memory. I probably can't even describe half of the inane chords I do unless I was able to observe my hands performing them.

"This site is currently running on free quota--that means that things can and will turn off as people play with it."

Sounds like a suboptimal configuration for a dead man's switch. If you're unavailable, you aren't around for contingencies.

What's the threshold for an "old account"?

I don't know why this is so hard or requires such significant investment up front. How is making a decentralized Twitter service more of a challenge than, say, IRC or Jabber? I know that the problems aren't exactly the same, but I would hazard to guess that they are on the same order of magnitude in terms of implementation difficulty.

This is the brave new world of SEO in our media. Once reputable news sources are more than willing to throw all their credibility out the door so that they can be the louder wall of an echo chamber for the sake of impressions.

My Page Down key melted from being pressed repeatedly so many times. Fucking designers.

Security traded for convenience, back to square one.

It's pretty refreshing to see cases where a government doesn't stay the course when the facts contradict it. I wonder if it is in less of a thrall of France's IP lobby?

I await Gruber's lengthy analysis of this font.

(and the monospaced version)

The tech press loves bloodshed, just like the regular press.

Imagine having your arms in front of your face for an 8+ hour workday. That will be terrible. Chiropractors are going to make a fortune off Win8.