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>> The founders had a very good rationale for putting it in. > Yeah, slavery. No, tyranny of the majority. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority Even women cou…

Perhaps those who live in urban areas may want to consider moving to a rural area so their vote can matter more. Living in a large urban area and voting Democratic is generally mea…

You may find my post in this thread useful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20683615

I was curious what mathematics this startup uses to calculate your return on investment. Based on my research (you can verify it by plugging in identical values on their site), thi…

Downlink frequency is 437.025 MHz. You'll be able to download telemetry, but you won't be able to decode photos because NOAA says no.

The author talked about if data is "yours," but they never mention the truest form of that: ownership. If ownership of data becomes an established concept, data will fit nicely int…

>I think it's important to distinguish between conditions which are unfortunate and conditions which are unbearable. Ok. Some conditions created by sanctions are unbearable, and so…

Short of receiving an act of aggression challenging the sovereign of your nation, sanctions are always preferable to war. Resource starvation occurs during wartime, but, in contras…

And war doesn't?

Milwaukee, WI is building a Deep Tunnel project as well. It's certainly not as large as Chicago's, but the need is similar (city built on swampland). They are, after all, neighbori…

Here's the general rules of thumb I follow when deciphering a schematic/PCB: 1) Ask yourself: what's the application? What should this board be capable of doing? If you can't answe…

In the quoted statement, only one of those statements--"defying the laws of physics"--is perhaps beyond the purview of the military. We don't allow aircraft to willy-nilly cross bo…

>Maybe we need to design new audio/video formats that degrade more "artistically" when there is data loss or insufficient bandwidth. If "art is in the eye of the beholder," then an…

If there's little evidence showing that the medium is affecting people positively or negatively, perhaps the key differentiator is content. A medium is the vehicle for content, and…

According to [1], "[b]ecause the production of high-quality semiconductor materials was still decades away, Lilienfeld's solid-state amplifier ideas would not have found practical …

Solid state non-volatile storage technologies such as NOR and NAND flash memory use something called floating-gate transistors [1]. Making these transistors is highly complex, and …

See my reply above for an explanation. TL;DR: the reason is business, not necessarily incompetence.

Publishers knew about the GDPR; there was a two-year grace period before the GDPR went into effect, which ended earlier this year. No, it's a conscious choice rooted in business. N…

You could, but it's not just the LA Times that acts this way. Many websites have engaged in this behavior because of the restrictions imposed by the GDPR. Lots of issues with the G…