Is your Kindle e-ink?
The general issue with e-ink-based readers and scrolling is that e-ink is designed to be mostly static, with sporadic (preferably partial-page) refreshes; but scrolling needs to have a very high refresh rate that updates the whole page simultaneously if it’s going to be usable.
Seems like they could have avoided this by having the Sandy Hook families join the bid with an arbitrarily high dollar amount—which they’d immediately get back as creditors.
My understanding of quantum algorithms is that they set up parallel computations in such a way that incorrect solutions cancel out and correct ones reinforce each other. They indicate the existence of multiple universes to the same extent that the double slit experiment does.
All information was passed down orally by people specially-trained to serve as “oral repositories”—in various cultures they were called bards, makars, aoidos, and various other terms. Important information was often set in verse to aid memorization.
There was a transitional period when writing and printing were used, and an even briefer period when these were supplemented by encyclopedias on CD-ROM before the birth of Wikipedia.
If it’s a public forum and a topic of general interest, I bear in mind that every commenter likely represents a number of lurkers and later readers with a similar point of view—and those others deserve a decent response, even if the commenter currently expressing their viewpoint doesn’t.
In the British Empire, ancient Egyptian cat mummies were sold as fertilizer.
I met some gibbons once—they were suspiciously lacking in social skills.
Iain M. Banks’s Culture series—the prototypical example of “fully-automated luxury gay space communism”.
In addition to looking for the killer, police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.
This is definitely where they need to focus their resources first.
Getting the street wrong is how we know it was him.
Pretty sure that’s Donald Trump—he even discussed his plan to shoot a man on 5th Avenue.
Drift skates and a crow whistle.
Ishtar.
The existence of these laws implies the existence of an institution to dictate and enforce them.
The place where these kinds of things fall apart, IMO, ultimately comes not from issues concerning the interactions of individual people, but from issues concerning the interactions of people with institutions.
One thing to bear in mind is that, whenever someone accustomed to one platform explores another, they’ll tend to ascribe any differences between the communities to the other platform being an echo chamber of some kind.
Agnostos Theos.
Seems like an effective strategy—someone write that down!
You mean Eurydice?
Avoiding nuclear war long enough to destroy the world with our normal economic activity.