IIUC Tokyo does a thing where the (already pretty lenient) height restrictions are eased if you set the building back from the road and put some garden space in front. I'm not saying I like this: Lik… (View Post)

When democracies stop being democracies or attack minorities, it's usually in a series of steps. Pretty much every country has a constitution that recognizes this: Any individual government could go … (View Post)

I don't think it needs any of those things. All it needs is for someone to run a single line of code matching the words "run this code" and running the code that comes afterwards. Once it's… (View Post)

It depends how you use them. Identifying which ads to show to which people is already just probabilistic, it doesn't matter if you get it a little bit wrong. Direct contacts are riskier but political… (View Post)

OT I'm still a member of the Labour Party despite previously announcing my intention to flounce over something and they just demanded that I commit to treating all those I encounter with respect and … (View Post)