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Well, of course. They wouldn't be able to research and implement innovative excess billing without excess billing. Your overpayment today funds your children's and grandchildren's …

JD Vance urges billionaire Peter Thiel to help bankroll [alleged billionaire] Trump campaign. FTFY

Haven't we been saying for years that corporations getting away with everything will never change until CEOs start going to jail?

Simple solution: Only let contracts where verifiably senior company technical employees are to accompany equipment in war and peace, and to have all technical data in their possess…

Effing great. It's shocking how so much can be unsurprising yet still shocking. On the other hand, what good is [effectively] owning executive agencies if you can't use them for yo…

There won't even be any pushback from department analysts and lawyers, since they'll all have been replaced by loyalists.

As the article is overtly political, I'll make a political response and cut to the chase: Trump is the most for-sale candidate and president in history. He solicited $1B in campaig…

My phone is hidden in its case. It's just a shallow black tray with a screen. I barely remember what the phone looks like.

I think the only compelling use case that applies to every IoT user is selling their data; the user as product. In that sense, every connected device is just another implementation…

In the future, AI will write our manifestos for us!

> For example, you may not: Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.” Ah, the old Microsoft "Cannot use our compiler to develop a compiler" restriction.

"This free app syncs across devices" If you're logged in to the app and web site, what needs to be synced?

I'm easing into my elder years. I forget some words, some celeb names. Sometimes think about it for days. Where I might have used a search engine before, and waded through the resu…

According to Microsoft it is, because [they assert] anything on the web is in the public domain: "freeware." [0] Eric Schmidt says it doesn't matter, just do it and let the lawyers…

> It's basically reduced them to a Chinese vassal state. I like to think of them as North Korea's client state.

A script to connect to my phone's hotspot, and then mount it via sshfs. Need to turn on hotspot and start the DropBear ssh server on the phone first. A script to copy new photos fr…

Those are quite nice, and so much more fluid than I would have imagined.

"On the sixth day—I’m skipping ahead here—the internet was born. The Word needed to be rewritten in HTML." No no no no NO. On the sixth day there was still no need or use for HTML.…

Disappointment. I thought it was going to be about art with the kind of nails that you hammer. Ob on-topic: I'm a truck driver, and have to check in with the gate guard to gain ent…

Create and sustain a society where people feel secure, and they'll have kids.

"At Disney, we strive to put humanity above all other considerations." [When we're caught out.]

Very enjoyable watch. One of the few times I allowed time to watch a video.

Does the drug itself cause the risk reduction, or is it the weight loss? Or also, if you're less hungry, are you eating less high-carb junk? I'm not saying people shouldn't take th…

The speedometer on most cars is a kilometers - miles - kilometers calculator.

Tunnels are often labeled "no hazmat." I wonder if electric semis, or even cars, should be kept out of tunnels.