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My signature on a touchpad is noticeably different from my paper signature. It’s been a real challenge for me recently as I’ve had to sign a number of paper documents while the “of…

Cars get developed on a cycle that spans a decade in many cases. Four or five years is pretty much the minimum. It could impact development cycles going forward but it will take a …

They didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family.

The advantage of watching live sports over the air rather than streaming is that there is no delay and the broadcast is as high quality as it can get rather than getting compressed…

Not if they drive everywhere

I almost always run with my phone. One of the few times I didn’t, I was on about a 12 mile out and back run. At mile 6 my IT band seized up in a way it never had and never has sinc…

Yes but then invariably I will forget to turn them back on the next time I use it. Additionally, sometimes that 45 mph option is still coded as a highway in Google’s data, so you g…

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Mexico City. I had to abandon Google Maps there. The transit system has an excellent metro, a solid BRT setup, some electric tram buses that are…

I wish them luck. I won’t hold my breath.

Someone needs to design an elevator that only breaks down between midnight and 5am. Maybe a different model to accommodate late night crowds returning to large residential building…

The US is a highly individualist society in which groups of individuals love to tell those outside their group what they can and cannot do.

When my kid was young I set up a basic web server and taught him how to make a VERY basic web page. I let him write whatever nonsense he wanted to and then we made it live. It was …

There's an old Carlin joke about "If a cop didn't see it, I didn't do it."

I guess Taylor Farms’ check cleared

My kid was in a ECE program at a top 25 university. About a third of their first year classmates did not know how to navigate a desktop file system. And these are the kids interest…

But a ritual sounds like something they practiced in the Middle Ages. Placebo sounds modern and scientific.

True. But it is still more likely than not that this project has seen limited testing on only a handful of machines. I won't begrudge anyone who feels like it's too big a risk to e…

The socialized segment of US healthcare is almost entirely the over 65 population and those too disabled to work any job. Obviously, the spending on those groups will be higher tha…

That article was written in 2000. You might as well be quoting the Articles of Confederation.

You really shouldn’t make speeding up to make the light a habit but, I get it, there are certainly times where that’s the safer option than slamming on the brakes. Fun when your ca…

Most countries will grant PR without requiring a language proficiency. Assuming your immigration status is regular and you are a contributing member of society. Citizenship? Absolu…

Then you watch Downton Abbey and learn that upkeep on a hundreds years old castle on that estate will bury you.

Neither of which tends to lend itself to an interesting place to live.

They still had zero involvement until after the fact. 30 years is excessive.

Government work tends to also have structured pay scales that rise based on time worked and less so or not at all on performance. If the end result of working your tail off or doin…