IMO the most important part of open source licenses is the obligation that anyone who modifies and shares the code publishes the changes with the same license. It’s not just that the original creator is giving permission to use the code, they’re doing it so the code can become the foundation of something everyone can add to in perpetuity.

So calling unlicensed software “open source” isn’t just abusing the original creator, it’s abusing everyone who invests their time in it with the thought of potentially adding their own improvements.

No, it’s from Middle English “engin”, which at the time meant a device or trick.

From the New Oxford American Dictionary:

gin up
(gin something up, gin up something) US English generate or increase something, especially by dubious or dishonest means: the trade press has ginned up a controversy | critics say the program is just a way for big drug companies to gin up demand for their psychiatric drugs.
origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘a tool or device, a trick’): from Old French engin (see engine).

So it’s not an offensive slur (nor a reference to drunkenness), but it is an accusation of dishonesty that people would reasonably take offense at.

We can always say “back in the second millennium”.

Neurodivergent people have always been subject to misunderstanding and preemptory judgement—maybe “cancel culture” is the current framework within which that issue appears to manifest itself, but it’s not the cause.

For one thing, it maximizes the amount of information the census contains: if you’re splitting a group into bins, the splitting with the lowest entropy is the one with equal-sized bins. If the bin sizes fluctuate with time (as a proportion of the overall population), the amount of information the census captures will vary as well. If your definition of lower-income includes 100% (or 0%) of the population, then assigning someone to a category tells you nothing about them you didn’t already know.

Bonds are borrowed money—they eventually have to be repaid (with interest) from regular tax revenue.

Even if Trump copied Nixon by resigning early so Vance could pardon him, he’d still be facing various state charges. (And he could always be extradited outside the US for war crimes.)

I hesitate to call myself a feminist because it seems like there is a presumption of understanding women’s experiences

Being a woman is the only thing that gives someone access to women’s experiences, but being a woman doesn’t automatically make someone a feminist. Neither thing presumes the other.

My theory is that the federal nature of the US leads to a default popular attitude of hostility toward any policy that originates above the state level, unless there are commercial interests willing to pay for the marketing and campaign contributions to sell it to the people and/or legislators. And businesses aren’t that interested in an improvement that only marginally affects their profits.

Alpacas, crows, and jaguars.

I think you’d immediately collapse into a shrivelled-up ball of super-dense matter.

The Pauli exclusion principle keeps particles like electrons from occupying the same physical space, which is what makes them take up volume and gives atoms and molecules their size. If they were free to move in an extra spatial dimension, they could pack much closer together, and their volume would collapse.

Focus on boosting comments instead of sheer volume of posts—people post specifically because they want answers, and seeing a long stream of posts with no responses makes them think it’s not worth bothering.

I think people’s familiarity with the r/askhistorians subreddit may be discouraging anyone without graduate-level academic experience from responding, but the subreddit didn’t start out requiring that level of rigor—it became more selective as the volume of replies increased. But for here, even a general-knowledge reply can encourage clarifying comments from more-informed people who may otherwise doubt their qualifications.

It may be OK if your only goal is to avoid conversations.

All multi-cellular organisms use hormones and other chemicals to send signals between cells. Plants and animals inherited the same system—and many of the same molecular signals—but we adapt the specific purpose of each signal to whatever messages our bodies need to transmit.

It’s similar to how related languages can derive words from a common ancestor, but the meaning of the word in each language changes differently over time.

The quietest one I’ve found so far is Phillips Sonicare—it’s not much louder than an open tap or running shower.

Quietness is a quality easy to overlook until you find yourself reluctant to use it for fear of waking up everyone in your household/apartment building/surrounding neighborhood.

Ah, that makes more sense.

They’re changing HA’s port from 8123 to 80? That seems inconvenient for anyone not running HA on its own dedicated machine.

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