Graham Hancock

Yeah, this can be safely assumed to be bullshit.

The other dev/wife did QA and part of the mapping. It’s a bit hard to finish a game without your programmer/designer.

TL;DR: If you had a Google account on a non-Google domain, an attacker can buy the domain and make new accounts with the same usernames. Those are new accounts as far as Google is concerned, but they will be treated the same for SSO on other platforms.

If you know the cloud-based HR platform a dead company used and the username of their HR person, you can log in and see all employee records and personal details.

I loved the ending of Hero of Ages. There’s a novella to read partway through the second age that does some beautiful stuff around it. The second age is a very different style, but it is a lot of fun. You never regret that extra shake…

I just finished the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin. The first book is from the sixties and the final short from 2018, so it is a fascinating trip through the maturation of Fantasy. The first three books are firmly young-adult, while the last three stick with the characters as adults. The whole series ends with a very short story the author wrote to be published after her death. It’s a wonderful look at the mind of an old person at the end of their story.

Recent publications include afterwords written in 2012 which give a lot of context and interesting insights into how she wrote stories.

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Your description of Taco Time captures it perfectly. It should be their slogan.

TACO TIME

Not Mexican Food

They are very high on my list of things I miss from Washington.

The handheld PC market is still small. Nobody else in the digital space has taken it seriously yet.

If you look at iOS, you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s effectively two products, a piece of hardware and a digital store. To beat it, you have to beat both the hardware and the store at the same time. It took the entire mobile hardware industry forming an alliance with one of the largest software companies in the world to even try to compete with it.

The book is highly comedic.

If SteamOS comes to dominate the handheld market, I could see them being forced to make an API so that other stores like Epic and GOG can have the same quality of integration in the non-desktop interface.

If you have two products that are both the best at their respective thing and you tightly integrate them, it makes it incredibly difficult for a competitor to match you. That is abusing a monopoly in each space to benefit the other.

Adding to this, some of the AIRCARE humidifiers are just a plastic tub, a wick that sits in it, and a lid with a fan. You’d have to break the tub to leak water.

Jesus was born in the spring, not the winter. Christmas is an adaptation of northern winter festivities and they slapped a Christian justification on it.

A business buys a product and pays a sales tax to the supplier, and this is deductable. It also sell the same product with a markup, and collects a higher sales tax from he consumer.

Usually in the US items purchased for resale are tax-exempt. A restaurant, for example, would have a resale certificate on file with their suppliers. Any food, beverage, and disposables they get would have no taxes since they are expected to sell those to a consumer. Cleaning supplies, however, are outside the bounds of their resale cert, so they would pay sales tax on those items.

Also, sales tax is not remitted to the government instantly in the US. I think it’s done quarterly, but I’m not exposed as much to that side of it.

Blocks are a quarter mile where you are? That’s huge!

In Chicago, they are an 8th of a mile, which usually means blocks are 2x2 big buildings downtown.

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Labeling it the beginning of winter is a cultural thing.

There aren’t many details available in that article, but it does mention ‘bird strike’ and attempting to land ‘the other way’. That implies gear-up landing with at least one engine out and a tailwind. Not a lot of options for slowing down.

Half of these are a single recall from a farm that took two days for a major packer to pack. Anybody that used cucumbers from that packer that might have been packed in those two days then has to issue their own recall.

This was his first movie. He wasn’t a big director. Also, he runs one of the big CGI/VFX studios, Blur, so if they were doing well he was making more than just his Deadpool salary.

The Logitech K845 only has a white backlight. It’s a really clean, professional looking mechanical.

Rakuten is up front about it. They force their affiliate links, then pay you part of their cut.

Honey forces their affiliate links in exchange for maybe finding you a discount code.