There’s also that Gottfried Liebnitz and Isaac Newton both invented calculus thing. Neal Stephenson wrote a whole trilogy about it.

Sovereign immunity.

Damn at Microsoft showing some balls. I’m not used to a company standing up in these times

“Wanting characters to identify with” implies an inability to identify with what is being offered. If your child only identifies with characters who look like him/her, you’ve failed as a parent. Children should be taught to identify with actions, words, deeds, etc. — not skin color, gender, or perceived background.

For house-owning San Francisco coders, like me, yeah, a new Porsche is an option. I’m more likely to get a Focus RS and a new kitchen, but it’s a matter of priorities (married, kid, etc). Plus, being a 911 nut, the SUV’s just look like rounded Audis to me.

Snow Crash gets you in the right headspace to push through Cryptonomicon. Very different, but also not. Then since you’re so far down the rabbit hole you marathon through The Baroque Cycle… I’m pretty sure this is all a good plan.

Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a cryptocurrency website, you have to do it somewhere outside U.S. legal jurisdiction. Didn’t these people read Cryptonomicon?

So the horror is that the employees are forced to walk, instead of being allowed to lounge and do nothing, and they are expected to not steal, and are shamed for doing so? The direction of the mentality of the general populus leaves me with a bleak view of the future. That is the true horror.