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Displays are frequently binned based on quality. They are probably just buying the cheapest they can, and end up with a lot of prematurely dead pixels.

This is exactly why I anticipate every grade school teaching kids Esperanto any day now As someone who uses both but mostly metric, neither one is difficult to use. Metric relation…

If something is “arguably” illegal, then that is what the law is for. We in fact have a very complex and refined branch of government designed specifically to decide whether someth…

This is such an overly simplistic take. Depending on where you are in the country, you could easily suspend some combination of power, water, heat, road access, banking, or interne…

Yes, a free and legal exchange that meets the definition of censorship. Many famous censorship schemes operate entirely in the private sphere. The Hays code, for instance, censored…

Hate speech does not have a definition in the US, and barely has a definition in countries where it is banned. I am sure almost everyone who has ever been banned for political reas…

No, it isn’t actually the clutch doing most of the braking, it’s the inherent friction of the engine moving without combustion

Car prices in America are among the lowest in the developed world though. It’s difficult to compare education as you’re getting a wildly different product depending on what specifi…

You must go to the Scrolling Autonomy Rebellion site for that. Unfortunately it is very low contrast.

Behold! A balloon!

People will step on the path when they are walking on it. Rubber wears down paths, as does any sort of abrasive sand or rocks between the shoe and the road. There is a significant …

We have devoted large amounts of time and resources to studying the differences between seemingly similar ant colonies, and we have lived alongside ants for our entire existence as…

That’s different because the iPhone is not a generic object like a fruit. You could totally call a business Macintosh Records and get away with it though

Most projectors don’t and it’s wonderful. So many smart TVs get loaded up with ads because you are essentially a captive audience tied to a very expensive purchase. Throw a Roku or…

Just because someone exists doesn’t mean you get to quote them anonymously in the article. You don’t write an article about a Mars rover and include “some geocentric societies clai…

That is four times the entire US foreign aid budget, perhaps it is a typo?

They are long term on many things, but not things that concern national pride. It is unclear what threat a semiautonomous HK actually presents to them, beyond just being a bunch of…

German cars, Mercs especially, seem to have a desirability curve that bottoms out and then skyrockets later. Few people are going to hold a car that looks dated long enough for it …

If they could demand a fee, anyone could claim to be negotiating on behalf of you, and demand a fee as obviously you need them

It’s not necessarily about danger, but it could help legally depending on what’s going on.

If I hit someone repeatedly with their toaster, and they uninstall the toaster, so I beat them with their frying pan, the fact that they owned a toaster isn’t very relevant in the …

I linked an email with my Reddit account long before it became recommended. Years later, I deleted that gmail account. Even more years after that, Reddit decided (automated) to loc…

Fortunately he has fit bits on all 10 fingers so it wasn’t a waste

And that they grew to this point before imposing this "curation". It seems to be a recurring theme with these companies to grow to a monopoly with a place for relatively free disco…

And with Uber, you can pick up and go to lyft if/when they treat you poorly, without completely losing an audience you spent years building You might argue that the audience is You…