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All skills take considerable effort to become adept at. And contrary to the author's belief, telling kids that programming is "complicated, technically and ethically" is a quick wa…

Identifying those points of stress is the first step to building a better launch system.

The Outer Space Treaty was only meant to prevent governments from claiming ownership of celestial bodies. The SPACE Act echoes that: >It is the sense of Congress that by the enactm…

Glad to know someone is giving them hell. I purchased a Vizio TV on black friday and suspected that all manufacturers would be doing something like this. For that reason I never co…

Internal combustion engines tuned for hydrogen fuel also exist. However the benefit of a fuel-cell vehicle is being able to recharge the batteries with the fuel-cells, regenerative…

Except romaji isn't used to teach pronunciation, it's meant to help the student read while they are still getting familiar with kana; much like furigana for kanji. Japanese charact…

I agree that their devices have been getting unnecessarily thin, but their aggressive push towards Type-C is for the best. The industry will follow Apple's lead as usual, and in a …

There is no feedback because those are not crosswalk buttons; they are for the blind.

Ironically that is the real issue I see with reddit. Half truths or exaggerations shrouded in psuedo-intellectual rhetoric are taken seriously and as a comment passes a certain thr…

If you can't verify that Google are actually anonymizing the data then you can't claim this is "completely harmless". I don't trust Google and this requires me to. Is that unreason…

> 6. No crapware It didn't come with Windows?

Centralized IoT servers would be a lucrative target for hackers. And as much as I would like the luxury of setting my thermostat remotely as I'm leaving work; it's not worth making…

I didn't even realize the website was trying to obtain information because I don't use JS. It's ridiculous how much of a liability it is.

So progress should be avoided if it means throwing away everything else? I can see Android rolling this out across two major releases. The first adding support for a new VM or app …

This idiot could turn out to be the Jason Rezaian of the DPRK. That is, the bargaining tool the North will use to join the rest of the world. I would be amazed if Obama's legacy wa…

There was a similar feature demonstrated with 3D TV's. Both users would have a fullscreen and to a viewer without glasses the images would be overlayed.

Air suspension is unnecessary? Seems useful for a car that benefits from a low drag coefficient.

Eleven seconds to load a single page is hilariously bad. Javascript puts far too much blind trust in developers.

While I do think it was silly of them to mention the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, there were not many who openly opposed the Iran nuclear deal as strongly as Netanya…

They say the hardware is ready; so when can we expect developer kits?

About the same in California; mandatory emissions check every 2-years. In the case of a private sale, if the owner has not had it inspected within 90-days of sale the buyer is requ…