i have no quarrel with hardware epub readers btw, they're just kinda like books and books are fine
ok the horrible design constraint seems to be that epubs are actually zipped folders containing html files, and those html files are displayed sequentially instead of stitched together into one long text. and i guess adding page-level continuous scrolling would make chapter-level continuous scrolling really janky? meh
on the plus side: epubs are zipped folders containing html files it turns out! i could literally just code up my own epub unsucker in python!
is there some kind of horrible design constraint that means they have to do this? like, its just text, cant they just show it in a way that makes it nice to read
@flancian Short for "this corner of twitter", another name for "ingroup" or "postrats" or whatever you like calling it
(replace "is worth" -> "gets you"; I didn't convert benefits that weren't average increase in income to $ amounts)
Unless they're patient, or value IQ points more, or there are other benefits to choosing sperm donor like attractiveness and athleticism and personality traits. Still, probably better to iodize the salt and remove the lead from paint first.
say someone wants to use IUI+sperm donor in order to buy IQ points (previously: https://schelling.pt/@TetraspaceGrouping/106863321864842499). Maybe they can reliably find a sperm donor with 130IQ, and they have 110IQ; that's +20 difference, half because one parent, half because not heritable, +5 points in child.
1 IQ point is worth $400/y in extra income, so this gives $2k/y total, so NPV at 4% discount is $20k, less than the $20k-40k of IUI, so actually it's not really worth it, and that's why no Repository for Germinal Choice.
@hj precommit hooks leave me alone challenge, if I wanted my changes to be rejected I’d run them through the CI pipeline
@Azure Those "maps" they produce are... haunting. Like a curved region of space was ripped out of place, skinned, spread out and flattened, the edges apparently matching up in a strange besotted way that only the tormented minds of the things that lurk in deepest gravity could comprehend.
The big question for this one is: how was the content here not published as part of _The History of Middle Earth_?
I thought Christopher Tolkien had published every grocery list his father wrote. Where did this stuff come from?
(I kid, but only slightly.)
Moved to @TetraspaceGrouping