airjack

Balloonomania

Posted by airjack on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:00AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonomania

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Re:The Strength of Being Misunderstood on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:39AM (#25275487)

Exactly. The virtue is being correct, not being misunderstood.

Re:Airbnb S-1 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:51AM (#25122229)

To be fair, so many things are "illegal" in China and it mostly serves to give authorities something to get you with if they actually want to get you. See also, VPN use.

Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-status

Posted by airjack on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:23PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/whrobbins/status/1311380201314504704

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Re:ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name on Sunday October 18, 2020 @07:22AM (#24817033)

Yeah, the problem is not that it's javascript per se, it's that it's a quirk. FCVTZS would have been just fine.