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IF SOMEONE SELLS YOU STOCK AT YOUR BID PRICE, LOWER YOUR BID AND OFFER SLIGHTLY: IF SOMEONE IMMEDIATELY “HITS YOUR BID,” THEN YOU MIGHT WORRY THAT YOUR BID WAS ACTUALLY TOO HIGH AND YOU COULD’VE PAID LESS.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
bloomberg.com
Initially, Japan’s traffic lights were green as green can be. Despite this, the country’s official traffic documents still referred to green traffic lights as ao rather than midori. While international traffic law decrees all “go” signals must be represented by green lights, Japanese linguists objected to their government’s decision to continue using the word ao to describe what was clearly midori. The government decided to compromise. “In 1973, the government mandated through a cabinet order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible—still technically green, but noticeably blue enough to justifiably continue using the ao nomenclature,” Allan Richarz writes for Atlas Obscura.
This Is Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green
rd.com
Reddit was born in the last years of the "old internet" when free speech meant "freedom from religious conservatives trying to take down porn and sometimes first-person shooters." And so we tried to preserve that ideal.
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