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One key difference is that submariners are rigorously trained to operate effectively in less-than-ideal environmental conditions, whereas Bob from accounting probably is not.

To be fair, in the summer you need to make sure the wasps don’t slip themselves into your drink.

> Deaf people have a lifetime of training (hopefully) and experience Not every deaf person is born that way, mate.

> That is not sane, it is dumb. I understand where you’re coming from, but it’s perfectly sane if your legal system recognizes and accepts that speed detection methodologies have a…

> It literally is shipping AI generated content in the product. When someone goes three miles per hour over the speed limit they are literally breaking the law, but that doesn’t me…

I understand what you mean; what I’m saying is that they can still disable CarPlay and upcharge buyers for navigation and harvest the data to resell without bringing subscriptions …

> the amount you're paying for the subscription is only a fraction of what they can get for your data. This doesn’t clarify it at all for me because this model already works withou…

> Probably because the LTV is at least an order of magnitude more than you are estimating. This subscription costs $140 per year; even accounting for price increases over time, if …

I haven’t bought a car in a hot minute but those options usually also included different in-dash displays, etc. If Ford standardized the hardware, eliminated the option, and bumped…

I’ve always wondered why manufacturers don’t just bump the sticker up by whatever the estimated LTV of these subscriptions would be. If you want to buy a new F-150, there’s functio…

In a perfectly efficient market, yes, but the market is notably not perfectly efficient. People make decisions about which career(s) to pursue or not pursue based on a huge variety…

I don’t think you can really bake that in because the traffic rules can change day-to-day. For example, there’s a street in my neighborhood that’s normally open for two-way traffic…

I’m no lawyer but I feel like clause seven leaves a clear opening to undermine the spirit of this license: > “The User may not sell this Work directly, unless they/she/he/it/ey/fae…

I‘m fairly sure that generation of MBP is USB-C only. If a UK plug prong is smashing its way in there, you‘ve got much bigger problems than a shorted port.

That’s a great read, thanks for pointing it out.

This story is incredible, I’m fascinated by every aspect of it: - What decision-making process led to the idea of injecting human urine into a frog in the first place? - How did th…

I don’t mean to suggest that governments shouldn’t do things like this, I’m just abnormally delighted when I find them. A multinational framework explicitly for the protection and …

Incredibly, I actually did learn this today because it was in the NYT crossword and I went down a very similar rabbit hole. I never made it to Freud, though, after I discovered and…

> Do not go to college if you have to spend any money on it. “If your family isn’t well-off or you didn’t work hard enough in high school to get any scholarships, college isn’t for…

All of the places around here that had first-gen units with a scale on the packing side (to make sure you actually scanned eg a banana and not a two pound block of cheese, yet were…

It seems like they only make the localhost requests on your first visit. If you open devtools in incognito mode (or just clear the cookies) before accessing https://ceac.state.gov/…