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I submitted this video because of the interesting software parallels we can take away from it, in a city known for very good infrastructure.

I’ve manually entered quotes from an old physical book into my readwise because they were so well written, so it’s possible to use physical books too!

On a related note, but different implementation (iframes), I recently learned that W3C does not believe infinite recursion should be a thing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14223628/why-does-a-self...

The shape of the code is just as impressive as the size!

> those who are members of the Airbnb community accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

When you are trusting someone to host you in their home, or trusting someone to stay in your home, it is important to have safety policies. For example, AirBnB's policies are related to fire safety, theft/vandalism, and fraud. This is simply one other policy to make both guests and hosts feel safe using the platform.

- https://www.airbnb.ca/standards

Scrabble is great for vocabulary, although as you get better you'll learn strategic words and probably disregard their meaning (for example, I frequently use qi, qat, suq, qua but I can't define them)

I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way

How do you test a system like this for accuracy? Is this done by simulating millions of unique requests?

> "One thing that is very important to note is our sinkholing only stops this sample and there is nothing stopping them removing the domain check and trying again, so it’s incredibly importiant that any unpatched systems are patched as quickly as possible."

(A very important point at the bottom of the article)

The posts would get auto-deleted if their vote count got to -5. It was popular enough at my university that this kind of community moderation worked reasonably well, but in a lot of other locations it got abused.

A couple years ago, I almost signed up for unroll.me but I stopped myself. It didn't seem worth it to give some service full access to my gmail account, when I could just spend a few minutes unsubscribing manually.

Could be more useful to instead place messages, such as "check the lights"

I joined in summer 2008 and made 900+ comic strips over a couple years. they had a tiny yet awesome community (this was all before it was big on facebook).