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New comment by paleotrope in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"

paleotrope — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:50:52 +0000

That was worth the read. I did get a bit lost when the writer was talking about the different areas, prestige fiction, commercial fiction, nonprofit fiction.

New comment by paleotrope in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

paleotrope — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:21:12 +0000

Riskier? Didn't they all die. Maybe if you ended up with 2 stranded shuttle crews, but correct me if I'm wrong, and I probably am, but couldn't the shuttle fly without any crew?

New comment by paleotrope in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

paleotrope — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:55:25 +0000

The slave trade only went south.

New comment by paleotrope in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

paleotrope — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:49:12 +0000

Restorative justice isn't that unusual in the world. Blood money has roots all over the place. Paying victims or their family/clan/tribe for deaths or injury is not unusual especially if the perpetrator is of higher status than the victim.

New comment by paleotrope in "[dead]"

paleotrope — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:42:41 +0000

This is a minor point but leaded fuel for autos wasn't phased out until much later than 1975.

New comment by paleotrope in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

paleotrope — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:32:02 +0000

Almost everything is a strawman

New comment by paleotrope in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

paleotrope — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:39:37 +0000

Maybe one theory is that the universities are selecting for disability.

New comment by paleotrope in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

paleotrope — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:03:35 +0000

I haven't had time to look at it in detail but surely the vulnerability is more than a "click a URL".

New comment by paleotrope in "Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in"

paleotrope — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:07:20 +0000

Can't help but read this as "Canada's today is the US in 10 years..."

New comment by paleotrope in "Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks"

paleotrope — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:36:20 +0000

Happens all the time in Boston on the green and sometimes the silver lines.

New comment by paleotrope in "The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%"

paleotrope — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:40:47 +0000

Seem quaint to remember Dunkin' donuts franchisees forbidding their employees from putting out plastic cups for tips.

New comment by paleotrope in "The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%"

paleotrope — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:11:28 +0000

It's not just SF. The $10 lunch of 2015 is now $15. Default tipping of 20% on things that we never tipped on in 2015 (takeout, fast food) is also adding alot to the total cost.

I don't know how people are affording the various delivery services and their fees on top of it.

New comment by paleotrope in "Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption"

paleotrope — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:07:46 +0000

Why not also tie votes to number of children you have? Seems like they would have the most interest in the future.

New comment by paleotrope in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

paleotrope — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:17:26 +0000

Maybe they call it a Vinyl Disc Player?

New comment by paleotrope in "John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'"

paleotrope — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:57:45 +0000

He should be the one to enforce it then.

New comment by paleotrope in "The battle to stop clever people betting"

paleotrope — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:54:40 +0000

I'm sure there are strong humanist arguments against gambling. Don't need a religious argument against it.

New comment by paleotrope in "Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot"

paleotrope — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:27:14 +0000

I believe Home Depot offers a similar service now so in a way they are directly competing

New comment by paleotrope in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

paleotrope — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:52:44 +0000

They probably don't have any repeaters. All those metal shelves are going to interfere with the signal. I have the same experience.

New comment by paleotrope in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

paleotrope — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:55:40 +0000

Is that really the same thing? We aren't just talking about understatement.

New comment by paleotrope in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

paleotrope — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:02:39 +0000

This is all very familiar with this North Eastern American English speaker except the "quite good" one. The rest seem normal to me in my American English. Perhaps it's too many Dr Who and or Monty python as a youth. Though in New England the language can be very sarcastic and indirect.