> It's not so much that he knows procedures well, it appears that he has some sort of didactic memory that he has focused on this topic.

It's both. Source: I follow him on Twitter, and I'm a professor of American politics.

It is the former. The latter is not necessary: lots of those of us with ASD don't need anything close to an idetic memory to hold insane amounts of minutiae about some random topic or other if it happens to be the topic we're deeply interested in

Begin with the paragraph that starts with "Apple currently provides…"

The Washington Post's media critic found corroboration from other sources. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39579136#39579664.

What do you make of Erik Wemple's investigation of the incident, which he describes at https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1763646613778563225? He is a media critic at the Washington Post -- is he lying about his incident, too?

Good interview. It includes insightful commentary on how Xerox did and didn't influence the project, starting with this:

> BYTE: Do you have a Xerox Star here that you work with?

That's not quite right. If the study is underpowered at n = 50 --- which is extremely likely --- statistically significant estimates are likely to be inflated. And as power declines, they also become more likely to have the wrong sign (e.g., the study will yield a positive estimate even though the true effect is negative).

See https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691614551642.

In general, that link does have more information. But if one wants to learn about how individual blocks or areas are zoned, the OP's site (https://secondcityzoning.org) is much easier to use and seems to offer more information, too.

In the U.S., I get "ousting" from ft.com.

Can you give examples of towns that still elect fence viewers?

Are the elections contested? Are they partisan?

You will be lucky in most small towns around here to get one person to run for any post.

For instance I'm running for Fire District Commissioner next month, for a seat that has been vacant for years, and maybe 10 people will come vote.

BTW, here are some other fun elected positions in my town:

    - Constable
    - Tree Warden

I was left with the distinct impression at town meeting that our town moderator got the role because he bought the previous town moderator's house.

Good luck with your campaign, and thanks for helping make your town run!

what kind of ego blow would that be to have those 10 votes go for someone else?

We have a select person who won a write-in campaign he didn't know he was running. What you're proposing is shockingly plausible.

Williamstown Massachusetts entrusts our select board to appoint our fence viewer. They are listed on our website describing our town’s government.

https://williamstownma.gov/boards-committees/#officials

Party affiliation for the Fence Viewer is not listed on our town's report. At least here, it's an appointed position. I have no idea if this is true everywhere though.

I haven't lived here long enough to know if the Fence Viewer being called upon to resolve some dispute.

> researchers induced mild, acute sleep deprivation in mice

How can sleep deprivation be both mild and acute?

In medicine, describing a disease as “acute” denotes that it is of recent onset; it occasionally denotes a short duration, as opposed to “chronic”.