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The state is saying Visa is committing the crime. The states media cheerleaders are squawking it to all that will listen. If Visa loses, payment processors have little choice but t…

Nothing to do with transaction risk. Congress and the executive branch have a myriad of ways to harm a large business if they don't get what they want. Visa's issues with religious…

Pantographs and catenary wires long ago solved the energy supply problem for heavy transport. They are 99% efficient and cheap to build. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg…

Google+ and circles were a good idea and should have been given a team with a lot of free rein and left to grow organically. Google+ died because it was forced on everyone that had…

To replace Pichai the two largest Google shareholders would have to give a shit about the direction of the company. But they've been absent for longer than Pichai has been CEO.

I can't surface them at all for non-programming sites. Occasionally automotive, but it's still mostly AI generated made for adsense junk. I can use site: filters on sites I know ab…

Google and Bing (and hence DDG etc) are no longer a search engines, they're "information the powers that be permit you to have" engines. Forums, blogs, and small independent websit…

Speak for yourself.

The US is threatened by the rise of both China and India. India seems to be quite capable of sabotaging itself however.

Yeah, there's a minimum volume required to store an electric charge and memory has reached it. Global demand is collapsing due to the Great NotARecession, whatever price we reach b…

From a much better Anandtech article: 32% increase in layers, 40% increase in die area. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17509/microns-232-layer-nand-... A bunch of the cost is test …

I'd love it if Meetup had a threaded discussion board with a way to pin photos and video. All my social networks would use it. That's actually what Google+ was with circles before …