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That's an argument for them being a monopsony, not a monopoly. And since they were colluding with other companies, it fits the definition of a cartel better.

Read all the way through to the third article. It does go into which kinds of guns are used in homicides, which is much easier data to come by (and perhaps more relevant to the con…

Autoplays video with sound.

I believe gp meant, "if the bulk of a tree's mass comes from dirt, why isn't the dirt around the tree used up as the tree gains mass?"

That's exactly what "Regulatory Arbitrage" means. The author calls it out explicitly.

Depends on your threat model. From TFA: Another attack on Samsung Smart TVs was published last week that used malicious commands embedded in broadcast TV signals. So, even if it's …

I actually got a "GO TO HELL" response when I did this once. After he told me what the company was. Yes, I forwarded the e-mail chain on to them.

I got what you meant, and that was my first thought too. The main reason I haven't bought an Echo (and am looking into self-hosted solutions instead) is the privacy concern.

Simultaneously and independently, with exact copies of all registered voters.

Perhaps. But it happened to both my account and my sister's account.

YouTube has the luxury of not needing real-time compression. Latency hurts usability more than low frame rate.

This confuses it utterly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

From inside a simulation, it's impossible to tell how fast the simulation is running because you have no external time reference. The visible universe as we know it could be runnin…

Yes, but it's much harder to hide a conspiracy to tamper with paper votes if it comes right down to it, since they're not all counted at the same place.

Literally every person I've put into my Vive has been blown away by it. Sure, there's probably some selection bias, but I've been buttonholing anyone who sets foot in my house, inc…

Intelligence as in information, not as in smarts. Intelligence clearance = access to classified information.

Miles on the car. Given how the article states that the tires alone are good for 5k miles and cost $1600 to replace, that's 32 cents per mile just for the tires. If you're going so…

I have had decent luck the few times I've just dumped the xml config from one pfSense box and loaded it on another. But yes, I eagerly await the API in 3.0

What are you doing to your CPUs? In my experience, CPUs are reliable enough to be nearly beyond reproach when troubleshooting a broken machine.

They can. They don't. It's extra effort for them for nearly zero marginal gain.

I think the convenience of having Lyft manage the logistics will mitigate this to some extent. Lyft carpools are scheduled as late as an hour in advance; if you've entered into a m…

Browse "User Submitted" by "Newest First" and you'll see the raw firehose of stuff people are submitting to the main gallery. If you're especially brave, do this at work.

Their FTTN is, yes. If you can get fibre to the premises, that's all them and you're golden. +1 for sonic support.

Synergy is decidedly non-optimal for gaming, unfortunately. Various games try to grab the mouse pointer in different ways and synergy throws a wrench into at least some of them.

I'm running an M3800 with Mint Linux 17.3. I can squeeze 2 hours out of the battery if I really need to; suspend/hibernate is currently completely broken, requiring that I cold boo…