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Maybe because it's fun to cheer on a TV war from a barstool (USA! USA!). The early parts of a war, especially when fighting an incompetent enemy, make for great entertainment. West…

> Someone on the conservative side of the spectrum, please enlighten me what the reasonable argument for justifying the past military action there is at this point... I'd say that …

"This article makes me think of the woodworker's dilemma." I'll definitely say that this applies in the car hobby. It's a helluva lot more fun to arrange a garage than to pull out …

I just read about that after your post. Even with the typical lawyer hyperbole it's pretty bad. It seems to me that Tesla door handles (in a world where they've been designing door…

I expect that to design self-driving you need to push the limits (with some accidents) a bit with a bunch of telemetry. Going from not-much to full-self-driving requires a lot of d…

My tactic (which I'm violating right now in order to post this, mea culpa) was to move the few things that strike me as valuable to a newsreader and quickly grind through them with…

I'd add.. 3) The urban public likes purty forests to go vacation in.

To be fair, if you execute a murderer they're not going to do it anymore.

...or simply the need to have version 6.0 after version 5.0, somethings gotta change. Sometimes I think it would be an interesting mental exercise to convert most (all?) web pages …

About as useful as Amazon search, Kindle giant list o' books interface, Amazon Prime Video on Android TV gizmos etc.

question. Do peer reviewed papers make the reviewers public? That would be an interesting angle if not. Allow anyone to publish, but they compete for high-status reviewers. Also, t…

Also, it's an actively managed index. Companies are added and subtracted.

wow, does that article not deliver on the title.

Is there somewhere on either pole with constant partial sunlight? or is there some sort of 'seasonal' tilt? I like the idea of the three power stations, but you still need enough b…

> I hope they are able to change the patent system. Let me calculate the likelihood of that. Computing......0% IP is obviously one of those Great Games sweeping the planet. Will co…

>You see a doctor because something hurts, they look at the something -- often in isolation -- and if they can't figure it out, you're pretty much on your own. A quick Old Man(tm) …

>Do you sincerely think these 70 year old politicians understand the technology and implications? Politicians of any age aren't domain experts and don't appear to be any smarter th…

You know, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I mostly see a bunch of disingenuous logic from the pro-surveillance forces. Being able to uniquely identify a picture via a ha…

> their site definitely has a certain political orientation that usually tends to align with NATO interests, It seems to me that if a site presents any threat to the ruling class, …

> ... for comprehensive insurance,... That's a thing that blew me away about Teslas, the whole deal with insurance. Maybe it'll be somewhat solved in the upcoming F-150 (which has …

GrapheneOS on Pixel? Dunno for sure. My strong temptation is to go dumb phone. >So this new Apple stuff has made me decide not to buy an M1. I hear you on that. I was kind of wanti…

That's pretty cool, I'd never heard of it. I wonder what super secret representation of primes results in unknown patterns?

Huh. I hadn't thought of that. I've scarcely worked anywhere with more than a smattering of younger people. You know, I wonder if a change in the type of people attracted to the pr…

In addition to the whole rigamarole of terms for film editing. Product idea of the day: Telecine for Cinerama. Now that I think of it, I wonder if the Cineon people ever thought ab…

I'm absolutely serious here (with the canonical HN downvotes and everything). It's easy to imagine. Movies from (especially) the 1960s/1970s. Lost In Space. Unscoped airchecks (wit…