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From the wiki article on Public.Resource.Org:

Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.

New Year’s is celebrated by everyone

More so than Christmas, perhaps—but you still have people with different calendars (Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).

“Feeding the trolls?”

Water Chestnuts are a fantastic substitute if you like the crunch.

Your opinion of celery vs water chestnuts is apparently the exact reverse of mine.

@remindme@mstdn.social 14,000,000,000 years

Who picked the name “Vultr” for a hosting provider?

In the sense that the original organic material has been replaced by minerals? I guess that’s a version of the old Ship of Theseus question.

We could use one, and assume we’re operating in the field of complex numbers:

1 N = North
i N = West
i^2^ N = South
i^3^ N = East.

And we could use the complex modulus to indicate distance or speed... or we could map the Riemann sphere onto the surface of the earth and use a single complex number to indicate location.

Many of the people electing the pope have hopes of becoming pope one day themselves, so they elect someone they expect to outlive.

Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.

Their “Values” reads just like the Bush-era Republican platform—so I guess it’s the kind of FORWARD that goes all the way around and points exactly backward again.

Agnosia or asemia?