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• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  From the OP: "Hello Kitty—or rather, Princess Kitty—is a mouthless cartoon cat created by Sanrio Corporation" I have read, from a source I cannot recall but I thought at the time reputable, that Princess Kitty is not a cat, but...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Moz, Your presumed link lacks a URL. Markdown issue? JHomes...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Damian, Your link is broken. The close parenthesis needs to be part of it, and isn't. JHomes....
• Commented on Place your bets
  "Any sufficiently large digital registers are indistinguishable from the analogue representation of the quantities being stored" Not always true in a system that exhibits chaotic (in the strict mathematical sense) behaviour. JHomes...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Your copy of the Web link is borked. Interested people should use the link in Moz's post. JHomes...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "I'd much rather have 30cm of snow in my front yard than 30cm of water." There are a good many people here in Aotearoa who have reason to agree with that sentiment. JHomes...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "watch the food fights over which translation is correct" Bearing in mind that the translators of one of the most ferociously defended versions (that authorised by one King James) complained at the time that they were not being permitted to...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  'Which one? There's a whole bunch of "Ryanair adverts" on YouTube?' If it's what I think it is, it's not an advert, but a satirical song, about some very cheap fares indeed, but everything is an extra that gets charged...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Confirmed by experiment that Pigeon is correct. Inserting the _(CVA-59) into the URL with the en.wikipedia.org domain works. JHomes....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  "When we go on vacation, we never have any check-in luggage, just a carry-on bag each" You are, I trust, aware that some quite innocent seeming things cannot be taken in carry-on luggage, and that what they are varies from...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Rude words! Japanese, of course. JHomes...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  "I read Wasp as describing a thinly veiled Japanese empire" Vague memories have been stirred, and ISTR that the Security Police were called the "Kaitempi", which sounds to me more Jaoanese than anything else. JHomes...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Re "Wasp" IIRC the protagonist was posing as a disaffected local within an area that had always been part of the enemy empire, and not the Terran agent that he actually was. Collective punishment isn't going to work very well...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  " It's interesting how things like ubiquitous air travel become a cornerstone of peoples' identities. " Is it what? When I were a lad (and I'm younger than Greg), the idea that someone might travel halfway across the world just...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  "The only places I use Google for are mapping and/or seeking out general news.' I find that OpenStreetMap works pretty well for mapping, although it has neither Satellite or Street View, should you need those. JHomes...
• Commented on WTF
  Heteromeles, Your link is broken. You have managed to include the closing parenthesis in it. JHomes Fixed...
• Commented on WTF
  "Sigh. Links don't work." Preview is your friend. I always preview any post that has anything more than just plain text. You can check where a URL goes just by hovering over it. Again, I do. JHomes...
• Commented on WTF
  "If there is, in fact, a religious aspect to capitalism it's the idea that the markets can ever really be rational." I incline to the view that "rational market" is a contradiction in terms, that the existence of a market...
• Commented on WTF
  "to infer(r) is human" Are you sure it's not infernal? JHomes...
• Commented on WTF
  "Vulch, are you trying to claim that a bridge is a type of settlement!? " In Scotland, sometimes it can be. E.g. Bridge of Allan, just north of Stirling. I'm sure OGH, living as he is that much closer than...
• Commented on WTF
  Another issue with the Compass is that for most people there isn't a single libertarian/authoritarian axis, rather that where they fall depends on what we are talking about. For each of us, there are issues where we see a need...
• Commented on WTF
  Liberty is indeed something precious, much too precious to waste any of it on Those People. JHomes...
• Commented on WTF
  "Does it matter if it's VOIP between COs if you still have dial tone at the house when you need it?" Between COs, no it doesn't matter. It's VOIP from the CO to the pod where the copper starts that's...
• Commented on WTF
  "You missed my point, twice." And I still seem to be missing it. My point, FWIW, is that most of Amsterdam having been built pre-car, and still there when they realised that car-centric was not the way to go, meant...
• Commented on WTF
  "That was amazingly foresighted of them, then." Not really. It's quite easy, in my experience, not to base your planning around something that not only doesn't exist, but which you have no idea could exist. If I have to be...
• Commented on WTF
  "Amsterdam quite famously went about it completely the other way round. They started with a political decision to swap from car cultists to a walking/cycling city, and proceeded from there." Er, no. They started several centuries before there was such...
• Commented on WTF
  " Er, the singer Madonna used the term "boy toy" as a self-description." I've come across that usage too, in various places. OTOH, I've also come across "toyboy" to refer to the original idea of a young male in a...
• Commented on WTF
  Obxkcd JHomes...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Apropos of voting ages. One thing that doesn't get mentioned is that 16 and 17 year olds would make up quite a small proportion of the enfranchised population. Therefore, their having the vote can only make much of a difference...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  "You had to be dead posh to afford a colour set." Local songwriter (one Dick Coker IIRC). Now I've got a colour TV, All the neighbours are jealous of me. My social standing is rising so fast, I think I've...