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Exactly right.

And airlines are niche compared to mass market cars too, but they're still a good business! One thing I think most people don't appreciate is that the switch to self-driving cars w…

I like the discussion at the end about the difficulties on delivering the busses long distance, and the lack of chargers big enough to recharge them. If the Tesla Semi actually lau…

What is a spy? They're not a legal immigrant, because they lied on their immigration papers, making their immigration invalid. If they're an illegal immigrant, their children would…

My god. It's an actual, blatant violation of the Rule Against Perpetuities. [0] And here I thought I'd never use this knowledge outside of a Property Law exam. 0. https://en.wikipe…

The idea that humans shouldn’t expand into the cosmos for fear of displacing some xenoplanktons is nuts. I’m not anti-xenoplankton, but I’m very pro-human. We will inherit the star…

You know what would kill fewer people? Not bombing Yemen.

This article has it completely backwards. As is often the case, (just as Paul Krugman gets basic tech facts wrong) tech people often don't understand economics. This has ALWAYS bee…

There's more to safety statistics than just the mortality rate. We should be able to look at frequency and severity of non-fatal accidents too. Those happen a lot more often. For e…

More to the point, the EU didn't say "Google can't monetize Android". It just said that this tying arrangement between Google Search and Android is too anti-competitive. Android co…

Yeah, that's why I'm favor of this decision. I think it's reasonable for regulators to have an anti-tying bias and make companies prove that the tying is somehow necessary. Because…

That's basically what the EU is demanding. The EU has handed down what is an anti-tying decision. "You can't tie Android to Google Search, because that prevents competition in Sear…

Everyone does. Hell, I do too. But it's not realistic to expect this music to keep playing. The ratio of workers to retirees keeps getting worse, from 10:1 in the 1950s to 3:1 toda…

> In an international partnership between CSIRO, Verily and James Cook University, scientists used specialised technology to release millions of sterilised male Aedes aegypti mosqu…

Oh, I'm sure that there will be hobbyists who do this. Just like there are people who run Arch on their home PC, or automate their house with Arduinos. The joke about "The Year of …

Looking forward to "The Year of the RISC-V Desktop" articles. That's a joke, but I think Windows vs. Linux is the right reference frame here, assuming that RISC-V proves out. Those…

Snakes on a Plane

Interesting discussion, but not very forward-thinking on the biology side. As a simple critique, they claim that 32 crew would result in too much inbreeding, but what about IVF? Th…

As opposed to what? Proof of Stake? Not even Ethereum can get that to work securely. I'm not familiar with all of those small coins, but the problem with Bitcoin Gold is that it us…

Maybe I’ll get the Model 3.11 for Workgroups.

And if you’re smart, that’s luck too. I didn’t earn my IQ.

I'm sure that FB will respect user privacy and won't mine your economic data for advertising purposes.

Here's the bigger issue than efficiency, IMO: > during the first 6 hour cycle where the photoelectrode generated 0.18 μmol/cm2 of hydrogen And then... >After a further 6 hours illu…

> The investors are relying on the efforts of others for their profits. Are investors in gold relying on the efforts of others for their profits? After all, there are people out th…

Coin Center isn't an unbiased source, but they do have the advantage of actually being lawyers: https://coincenter.org/entry/no-ether-is-not-a-security Full disclosure: I am also a…