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Yes, and what I outlined is one reasonable way to implement “the consent of the governed”, and still a lot more democratic and inclusive than the system the authors of that stateme…

What is inherently unreasonable about the idea that only people who pay into the system get a say in how the system operates? The constitution still guarantees fundamental human ri…

A privilege, really? Who bestows that privilege? I am certainly sympathetic to people who are genuinely disabled. That doesn’t mean we have to lie to ourselves that they are being …

If they are JS frameworks that enable other engineers to build applications that support farms, and banks, and taxi services and insurance companies and mines and factories, etc. t…

Who produces the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the energy you use, the medicine you consume, etc. while you airily define ‘productivity’ as reading the…

Apple no longer supports this platform. There is no reason to target it for new releases. Java is not abandoning MacOS.

What method do you suggest is more information-dense and less lossy? What people are lamenting is that reading is being replaced with less information-dense, less accurate, less ef…

Switzerland has a population of 9M people - the entire country has fewer people than the third or fourth largest US metro area - and a GDP per land area 8x that of the US. What wor…

I’m referring to Doctorow’s credibility, not Williams.

“Zuck is also revealed to have given the Chinese state access to all of Facebook and the power to censor content they disliked, as part of a failed bid to get permission to offer a…

There are many factors driving this: 1. Fuel economy regulations that scale regressively with vehicle size, that incentivize automakers to build and market larger vehicles that are…

Nice to see a unanimous decision on a (by most appearances) controversial topic like this.

It was a unanimous decision.

The Cybertruck and Jaguar rebrand are both complete flops. Interesting product advice you have to offer. Who do you think is the target market for expensive Italian sports cars, if…

This would have a chance as a $250k entry-level Ferrari. Not much of a chance, but a chance. At $600k? Crazy. You could buy a V12 Ferrari at that price, if a Ferrari is what you wa…

These are pretty expensive and specialized electronic warfare planes that are identical to a regular F18 in aerodynamic performance. Sucks to lose two of them for an airshow displa…

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Am I supposed to know what a “system card” is?

How do you feel about the batteries in electric vehicles? What about wearable devices like a smartwatch, headphones, smart glasses? Should all these be consumer-replaceable without…

Magneto-optical drives are what I miss! The nearest thing we ever had to a durable and useable long-term storage media for normal users, as far as I know.

Don’t know who this guy is, but I’m glad I never interviewed with him. This is language-version-specific behavioral minutiae that anyone can look up in 5 minutes in the rare case i…

It’s not that they can’t afford it, it’s that Android users aren’t worth the investment.

Like others here, I don’t have this problem. I often leave them in my backpack for weeks between airplane flights, etc.

Up 30% is not “nearly doubles”.

Yeah, if you haven't used a social network for years, and nor do your friends, and you log in to the social network, you get pretty trash content. This shouldn't be surprising.