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I get that it's fun to try to "big time" me with physical explanations for simple phenomenons that anyone who actually owns a kettle can explain, but it's very simple: the filter i…

If you have hard water, you'd know just how silly that question is. Everyone descales their kettles at some point, but we don't want to do it every other day. That's too much effor…

Except, in this case, we have a society where one side is spreading very deliberate, demonstrable, objective lies, and then saying the other side is lying as a method of trying to …

> Is there anything that can be done that would satisfy all regulations? We could go back to having advertisements be relevant to the content audience instead of the specific viewe…

Ross's lymphoma was thought to have been caused by dichloromethane exposure from his odorless paint thinner (and him 'beating the devil' out of his brushes aerosolizing it). It's n…

Its oral LD50 was tested to be more than 5000mg/kg according to Shepherd Color Company's MSDS for Blue 10G513 (as it is known commercially). That's well into "non-toxic" as categor…

'Hecka-' sounds like the giggle-unit version of the 'Hella-'. So let's propose a heckabyte is 1024 yobibytes.

And they released the documentation for the hardware so you can feel free to join in and make the drivers better any time you like. Which is about all we can ask of companies doing…

There's at least 3 different manufacturers that make these things. There's absolutely no reason to point out ChromeCast over Roku or Amazon's FireStick, e.g.

It's going to be ridiculously annoying once the security professionals start finding exploits for smart TVs and have them worming around the internet - the vendors will be glaciall…

And then Tillis' (Disney) Historical Preservation Copyright Act of 2023 will make sure we won't see that in our lifetimes. (But seriously, just look at the absolute absurdity that …

It feels a hell of a lot like the multimillion dollar pen vs the pencil myth - it costs them maybe $20K to send six months worth of clothes to the ISS per astronaut on a Dragon 2. …

I'm old enough to remember when reCAPTCHA was first introduced to help with deciphering text from OCR'd books. At that time, it didn't feel so bad answering those, as we were using…

They get paid from whatever service you bought your music from - be it from CDs, MP3 sites like Amazon or Google Play (RIP), etc. Scary thought, being able to purchase music these …

New users do find it to be a dungeon that's hard to escape from. The jokes on this one write themselves.

Copyright isn't the problem, it's greed. Each company is offering a unique product, so they get to charge whatever they want for it. And users that want that media will chase the p…

They might not even be able to measure that small of a difference in the spacecraft's acceleration, to be honest. We're talking about a difference in grams of a spacecraft that's s…

It's not enough to make a difference either way around it. The sample return container could be filled to the brim with pure osmium or iridium and would make it through the atmosph…

You learn strategies for getting through some days, some days nothing works, and some days are pretty much completely normal... and you never get enough normal days. A good healthc…

If $30 of extra hardware makes them able to directly sell $X0+ of ads per TV per year, they're going to be happy to do it.

That's fine for now, but you just know within a crop or two there's going to be panels that insist on being connected to the Internet or they won't even display anything. And then …

Hm, using your own link, I see "Federal aid to highways" totaled at $43,421,077,419, and I see "Total excise taxes" at $42,329,411,402. I do a subtraction and I see a $1,091,666,01…

It's fun that nobody ever includes the cost of the Interstate Highway System into these throwaway calculations, as if the roads just magically appeared and are maintained by faerie…

> why has McAfee decided to IPO now as opposed to any other time in the past few decades All of the tech companies see where the economy is going, and they all know it's time to bu…

It's so much this. Intel showed up with a proprietary 70 pin fine pitch SMT connector, a 1.8V power requirement and sold the Edison to high level designers, when the market they we…