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There will be a surge in "nobody wants to work anymore".

If they have the same mass they weigh the same until you blow up the beach ball and are weighing the beach ball + the air inside.

So a beach ball weights more than a bowling ball?

That's an embargo.

A blockade is military stopping traffic. "Effectively a blockade" is an embargo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Mason

She cast a provisional ballot, a mechanism specifically designed to check and count a vote only if the voter is determined to be eligible, on the advice of a poll worker, and was sentenced for voter fraud.

As much as I love Tom Scott and it's a fantastic visual/temporal representation, I doubt a lot of people have the patience.

I like "1 Million seconds is 11 days, 1 Billion seconds is 31 years" as a more succinct example.

One person earning $3600/hr, 24/7, without spending any of it, would take 31 years to become a billionaire.

Samsung TVs

Vivaldi

Threes

Fun puzzle game that got ripped off by 2048 and it's endless clones. They wrote a blog post on how shitty mobile game development can be.

Lack of sales IIRC. They're very neat but kind of niche because of their non-standard layout, they were aiming to be a keyboard/mouse replacement instead of "just another controller". Extremely customizable control schemes too.

Would absolutely love a 2.0 one based off the Steam Deck or something.

This system hasn't lasted ~90 years because they just throw someone in a chair and let them figure it out on the job.

Any reliable system, electro-mechanical or digital, needs thorough user training and checks.

The worry with this one is it's a single authoritative record with no easy way to backup or replicate it. They say there are non-authoritative (at least legally) digital versions of most(?) of the records. I hope/assume they're actually more consistent with that than the video makes it seem because those are the only feasible off-site backups they really have. If not one fire is all it would take to wipe out an entire countries SSA program.

He bought co-founder status at Paypal too IIRC. He was ousted in part because he wanted to rename it "x.com". Weird that.