The set of topics that gets you de-platformed (or financially de-platformed) is increasing.

>>curious why this is so.

I think because real estate investors have enough capital to take over cool areas.

A stark counterexample is Japan where you can own a freestanding house in a dense urban environment near public transit for $300k -- what would that cost you in London, NYC, Berlin? It seems like Japan is one of the few major cities where you could have a large family (or large studio) and live an urban life -- everywhere else you are stuck with a 2BR or 3BR apt (if your rich).

How an Average Family in Tokyo Can Buy a New Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w

If you've abandoned chess.com for lichess.org, you might be surprised to learn that chess.com now hosts 15 variants.

Is there any variant where both players play blind every other move or in the starting?

There's a 'fog of war' variant where you can only see the squares that a piece of yours could move to.

That one would be interesting to try with AlphaZero. Reinforcement learning systems tend to have trouble with imperfect information.

--that a piece of yours could attack, I believe, not move to

I just checked and if you want to be technical it's "move to normally, could move to during a capture if a piece was there, or holds a piece you could capture".

Pawns are the only case that where those three are different but they see all three:

- directly in front (move)

- forward-diagonal (normal attack)

- horizonal exactly only in the case of a enemy pawn moved to that square last turn that can be taken en-passant (capture). That square goes dark if you move another piece.

High quality creators have largely abandoned text/open-web in favor of video, ergo YouTube channels for interesting stuff.

OLED, ColorVeil, nightmode

USD isn't that great because there's so much counterfeiting

That's why the acronym STEM was invented, to separate college that makes you poorer from college that might make you better off.

Bram Cohen's chia would disagree with you. Something to keep your eye on.

Thanks for the heads up!

That website looks pretty bad. Cato Institute is an example of newspaper/magazine on the web done well

https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/fiscal-policy-...