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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's pretty simple, actually. The time zones are on average 1 hour apart. So there should be about 24*28=672 time zones on the Moon. SIMPLE.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Nobody noticed that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's a very aleatoric autodefenestration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So lawmakers have their work cut out for them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, using human lives as a political hot potato is despicable. However, the policy it implies (sharing the burden of caring for immigrants) is actually quite reasonable, and already policy in places like Germany.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the link in the article, the qsort() bug can only be triggered with a non-transitive cmp() function. Would such a cmp function ever be useful?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

US Senators and congressmen are underpaid. Their salaries should be doubled. The president should make at least a $1 million a year, directly paid by taxpayers.

Reason: If I, the taxpayer, pay them, then they have to work for me. The payment makes that service relationship explicit. I pay you, you work for me. And, yes, the current pay is too little, $174,000 - barely comparable to tech workers.

Only taking $1 is an invitation for corruption. (Not claiming it happened, but it is an invitation.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I gotta guess:

LBJ = Lyndon B Johnson?

O&G = a construction company?

FIRE = Financial, Insurance, Real Estate

SEC = Securities and Exchange Comission

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What irks me about the larger phones is that there is so much wasted screen real estate. The phone doubled in size, but can only show me half the number of items on my shopping list?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nah, the wind is blowing from a different direction.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17409777M/Fom_Winde_ferfeelt

For context, in this book, "missed by the wind" (which kinda sounds like gone with the wind) the author introduces a change to the language in every chapter, making it easier every time. And he succeeds. Highly recommend.