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I saw that in Pratchett's _Snuff_; I thought it was a joke, an exaggeration!

I have difficulty seeing Unicorn (the scooter company) here as anything other than an intentional joke on current VC. They call it Unicorn, they put nothing into actually making a …

GPS-enabled devices are the first such improvement to have a novel downside: you can now be tracked, whether you want to be or not.

You've skipped a rather large period of time in which people would travel, and would bring a map with them or buy one when they got there. You think road trips only got to be a thi…

Are food trucks not "the familiar"? In my experience, if there's a food truck, I can find it in the same place at the same time, either daily or weekly, all year round (unless it's…

I'm not sure the "independent thought" bit is justified; if you can't distinguish between illegal and legal things, or can't manage to not do illegal things that are fairly easy no…

I prefer the Lyttle Lytton[1], personally. These get kind of long. [1] http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html

IPA seems to describe areas as far as I can tell; each consonant is how-do-you-make-the-sound and where-is-the-sound-made, not specific frequencies, charted on a grid. The vowel ch…

I'd guess you could get zapped if you accidentally touch the metal part of the bulb (or the socket) while unscrewing the old one or screwing in the new one.

Presumably, because it's (technically) breaking federal law, and someone who breaks federal law probably shouldn't have a federally-granted security clearance.

Specifically on Pokemon (so Game Freak), not everything Nintendo's done. Grandparent specifically said "the Pokemon team"

And the later ones (and all the 3DS ones) have the option to do that perpetually in the background, which would probably be why this issue comes up here instead of on other local m…

They've always been pretty conservative as far as game design goes; somehow I doubt they'd be pushing any boundaries on the backend.

So, is the Switch (in certain circumstances caused primarily/only by this game) breaking 1, or is the Roku breaking 2? Neither seem to have broken either until this particular inte…

The Switch is capable of communicating both over an existing network through a wired or wireless router, and through wireless peer-to-peer communications with other nearby Switches…

If the victim is yourself, either you were coerced (and the coercion should be the crime) or you consented (and it shouldn't be a crime). If I kick myself in the shin, is that batt…

Not anymore, is it? Last I heard they were in pretty significant legal trouble due to not actually having the 1:1 real-doller backing they claimed to, or other assets of equivalent…

> There are other cryptocurrencies (eg Tether) that follow USD (eg 1 Tether is almost always equal to $1.00 USD), to avoid issues with volatility. One of us is behind the times on …

At a guess, people are less likely to make a fuss about fraud when they're embarrassed to admit they were trying to buy such things.

> I thought essentially no one uses mini-A or micro-A, so I don't know why you would want that. I thought USB 3 was just about faster data. If a cable always blocks data, then I do…

I am paying for one-quarter of the 4-bedroom apartment (that is, one bedroom plus shared spaces), which comes in at $950/mo. I am well aware that this is absurdly cheap for the are…

I'm in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and my apartment is a 4-bedroom. Building used to be owner-occupied, now converted to two addresses with two apartments in each plus a shared basem…

Storage and production costs for something available in UHD are the same regardless of whether someone streams a downscaled version. Storing multiple resolutions (assuming they do …

Eh. US Pop culture was a lot more unified before Netflix (and especially before VCRs, and before the number of channels got so big). I'm told there was a time when everyone watched…

On the one hand, of course launch day of a big service is going to have problems; they always do. On the other hand, Disney owns Hulu. Why is this a launch day of anything other th…