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I'd get behind that, but it won't happen at this point. I would like to see abolishment of speculative property ownership. You either use it, or it gets given to someone else. You …

> Heads up, US Customs does not have to respect to GDPR. Customs is part of a sovereign nation. What customs can and can't do has precious little bearing on what companies can and …

Yeah, I can't read it, but "millions" sound rather high to me. In 2019 there were 157 million American workers. That's expected to increase by 2 million in 2022, to 159 million wor…

> Trimmers I met were earning $500 to $1,000 a day. $100 per lb trimmed was pretty common. I don't believe this, the numbers don't line up. If it's wet, doing 5 pounds in a day is …

The other poster is right, I can't see any way this is an accessibility issue. You could try pushing back with a First Amendment complaint. Say you have a sincere and deeply held b…

It's also not really safe to drink. Probably unlikely to kill you, but you're not going to get any assurances E. coli isn't in there. It's pretty hard to mess up growing weed bad e…

I would think a prototype supersonic trebuchet would come with a lot more rules than a standard firearm. They would be much closer to the safety precautions for a prototype firearm…

I'm a little doubtful. I think your standard pebble would vaporize from the friction with the air. A pebble certainly wouldn't survive re-entry into the atmosphere, so there's an u…

Just to expand on that, patients aren't the only ones with a legitimate reason to access that data. Insurance companies need copies as well, so they would still want some kind of m…

Google owns the stuff you make during 20% time, iirc, so they use it as a feeder for new products. Allegedly (I can't verify, but can't see why they'd lie) GMail, Google Maps and A…

In my short time working with it, I found it frustrating to debug. Using an incorrect tag meant it would simply be ignored with no indication of why my thing doesn't work, and I fo…

An ESP32-CAM isn't far off. It's got a sticker sized footprint already. If you cut off the pins, the PCB is thicker than a sticker and the camera is a centimeter or two long, but t…

I would tend to disagree because MicroPython is so abstracted that it resembles writing regular Python on a server more than it does anything embedded. Just as an example, the WiFi…

A desire implies a conscious and at least semi-reasonable actor. People with desires behave rationally (mostly). If person X doesn't want to be homeless, they probably won't burn t…

Right, but those aren't things an RCA is meant to address. The RCA identifies the specific method of failure. It's the starting point on your process improvement. X failed because …

> It lets you build very resistant patterns: if your message-senders overwhelm your message receivers in HTTP you can end up with connection failures, get stuck waiting, etc. I thi…

Why on Earth wouldn't you just make it a setting on the phone and expose that to apps? Have the apps read it on startup, and save it as part of the user profile server side. It bas…

> Most marginalized groups don't "overcompensate in achievement-related domains", and I don't see what mechanism would make LGBT people be any different. A significant difference i…

I think it would be more effective to require sprinkler systems indoors on wooden homes. I'm seeing prices of $1-$2 per sqft, which is absolutely reasonable (although I anticipate …

I've worked at some places that used Kafka (including LinkedIn), although I have never been responsible for running the platform itself. I'll chip in with what I see as the negativ…

> it seems quite obvious to me that in the vast majority of cases, the considerably simpler* model of (green) threads means you're making the exact same trade-off: Simpler to write…

A lot of it will be pushed down the stack into infrastructure. Infrastructure typically tails software, so over the next decade I would expect to see shifts in the infrastructure t…

I don't think this is strictly true. There are 2 underlying factors: 1. Public companies have tons of disclosure requirements, which makes it far more likely that someone notices t…

Given unlimited potential, no, it's not. Given our current constraints in terms of energy density and electronics size, yes, it probably is. In an unlimited potential world, it wou…

I think some entire themes just don't translate well. Explosions lose a lot of oomph if they aren't backed by powerful subwoofers. It's hard to pass environmental detail on an iPho…