carterage

Brownsville has a reputation, yes. But Brownsville is an engineered pocket of Brooklyn, for sure.

The reason Brownsville exists in this way, is because other parts of the city have created it the serve thusly. Spend enough time in NYC, and you gain an affinity for the equillibrium that fixtures on its map have acquired, in order to persist for decades and generations.

Brownsville is a landlocked pocket of subway-accessible pavement, about an hour from Manhattan.

Inside the footprint of the city limts, things exist as a matter of human will. The more powerful forces at the top tend to have stronger influnce over the sequence of events, than those at the bottom.

What was going on with the walled city of kowloon? Was it there because people aspired to that, and it was a reflection of their intent?

Honestly, to build for 20 uses means using no metal. Or maybe duct tape and tin foil at best.

In aviation, it’s going to be balsa wood, foam core ( ...and I guess some 3D printing with sparce infill, because darpa).

Basically flying garbage in times of war.

Oh boy! Can’t wait! Take me to the next Iraq!

That's a good point. Put another way, were I to run a local copy of a wikipedia mirror, right here in my own bedroom, I'd be putting myself eye-to-eye with any wikipedia employee or volunteer. I'd have the same tools in my hands, as they do. I'd be one person, a PHP script hosted by an apache process, and the wikipedia data set.

But, contrast that to Facebook, and the concept becomes more interesting. Facebook's search utilities are similarly unsatisfying, despite the massive resources of the company. This is probably not a blind spot, but more about the level of quality provided, for free-tier, unprivileged user utilities. Advertisers probably gain better reach, but perhaps without knowing exactly who they reach. Facebook's search tool can't be used to discern the capabilities or qualities of one or more of the indices Facebook uses to negotiate the landscape of their data.

One thing that consistently blows my mind is how readily an external search engine creates a better index, with more relevant recall, by scraping the published static pages of Wikipedia, such that it outperforms Wikipedia's own search,

Wikipedia should be able to search itself better than any external entity, but cannot. Wikipedia, in effect, is blind to its own data, and can deliver less insight into it's own content than multiple external Search entities.

If I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search for anything, I get weaker results, than if I use search engines to locate wikipedia articles according to the same input string.

There's something wrong with that.

So... fundamentally, encrypting data on the very same machine that retains the related keys, is tantamount to simply encoding the data in plaintext form without any real protection, yes?

  "carterage"

Is that supposed to be cartridge?