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“First off, it’s important to understand that when we offered ‘lifetime’ support for a product; this referred to the lifetime of the product. As you’ve seen previously, we’ve retired products. That’s because these products, at some stage, become no longer viable or sustainable, and we can’t justify spending time on improving that product.”
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Determine your eligibility – What you need to visit Canada as a tourist
“The following travel documents are not considered reliable. You cannot use them to enter Canada: passports supposedly issued by Somalia,”
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“Most people agree that the hit-to-kill phenomenon stems at least in part from perverse laws on victim compensation. In China the compensation for killing a victim in a traffic accident is relatively small—amounts typically range from $30,000 to $50,000—and once payment is made, the matter is over. By contrast, paying for lifetime care for a disabled survivor can run into the millions. The Chinese press recently described how one disabled man received about $400,000 for the first 23 years of his care. Drivers who decide to hit-and-kill do so because killing is far more economical. Indeed, Zhao Xiao Cheng—the man caught on a security camera video driving over a grandmother five times—ended up paying only about $70,000 in compensation.”
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prosthetic knowledge — Wanderment Short indie game by Andrew Wang where…
“Wanderment – Short indie game by Andrew Wang where you play a blind kitten navigating an environment presented as particles based on your actions (a sort of kitty-sonar)”
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The Language Lover’s Blog: Sync or synch?
“I feel torn between aesthetics and linguistic purity.”
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Hello Future Pastebin Readers — The Message — Medium
“The barrier to data betrayal is so low now that it often doesn’t feel like betrayal at all. Screenshotting a Snapchat, posting a mail thread, or copy-pasting some Slack logs hardly feels like wearing a wire when you go to your friends’ house or your boss’ office. Getting it all is so easy when our devices gather it for us, and data has none of the feel of looking into the eyes of a human you are lying to in order to betray them. Most of our leak-able data is right there, burning a hole in our hard drives. It’s so easy to share data with the wide world, and then it’s done. It’s public, it belongs to the attention of the whoever.”