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No, they detected helium, which would be in the upper reaches of the planet's atmosphere (as on Earth); they believe there are other gasses lower down, but the helium is what's con…

If it becomes this easy then Secure Boot just becomes Vista-era UAC. Sometimes making the security bypass an intentional act that requires some knowledge is a good thing. Most PC u…

You can load your own Secure Boot keys and sign your bootloader yourself; as for why the Microsoft ones are preloaded, probably because they're the only entity that interacts with …

> As long as it meets float and cap requirements Even with the CRSP indexes this was recently changed to make fast-tracking for these IPOs easier.[0] > CRSP indexes were also recen…

> The people living there continued to bring river mussel shells to the midden for hundreds of years after the dingo’s death. Hundreds of years? Damn, that's probably well more tha…

Pretty funny it works on Apple Silicon before it works on a Raspberry Pi

The prevents them from asking before extending an offer, but it seems they could (and should) have checked after.[0] > However, an employer may ask about criminal conviction(s) aft…

No, they mean Anti-Zionist Tag[0], an extension that is live on the Chrome Web Store and identifies anti -Zionists for the benefit of Zionists. [0] https://chromewebstore.google.co…

> If . . . the replacement has a higher version number than the one in the SYSBCKUP directory, then the replacement was copied into the SYSBCKUP directory for safekeeping. This as …

It doesn't say for certain, but assuming the version of this they settled on (restoring components after the installation finished) is what they shipped in the original version of …

> Carr suggested the exemption should no longer apply to programs he characterized as being “motivated by partisan purposes.” I know the timing makes this seem cravenly partisan, b…

> upcoming updates to the weights will fix it Oops, the unaccountable algorithm eased when it should have tightened and Volcker Shocked when it should have eased. No prob, the weig…

> The algorithm is to be tuned over historical data Because as we all know, when it comes to financial markets, past performance guarantees future results. Oh wait . . .

No, they're referring to an error that pops up when you visit a page whose url ends in 'women-in-the-world.html'; you can click okay and still browse the page though :-)

That wasn't obvious to me, because in that case the answer to why this website wasn't created in previous years seems obvious - because USDS wasn't being demolished in previous yea…

> The average taxpayer spends $150 and 9 hours a year on their taxes Not in a meaningful way for most people

> Ask yourself: Could this website have been written anytime in the last 8 years? No? It was authorized by the IRA, which was only passed in 2022. > Given where we are now, the sta…

> we all see what we want to see Yup, and what I see is that Intuit, Inc. gave to exactly one PAC, that donates exclusively to R candidates. Tesla employees also overwhelmingly don…

I'm not sure how much control the USDS that developed DirectFile (or whatever was left of it) had over that given the reasons that article cites for the confusion > The IRS deempha…

So (if we take your interpretation at face value) you could call it a 'presidential power grab', or maybe even an 'executive power grab' (if we stretch things and assume power is b…

> this just looks like a federal power grab A federal power grab from . . . the federal government?

DirectFile was a material product that had a 94% satisfaction rate.[0] Within the remit of this organization, if making filing taxes free and easy doesn't count as making people's …

Interesting, thanks for reinforcing the point. I would note the two columns 'From Individuals' (which includes all employees) vs. the 'From Organization' column. Worth noting that …

Nobody in the Eastern Bloc was trading with the US very much; I was thinking more about other countries. North Korea would have been relatively unfettered within the Eastern Bloc, …