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Doesn't the precipitating change optimize memory on the DNS server at the expense of additional memory usage across millions of clients that now need to parse an unordered response…

I wonder whether the bot hallucinated the wrong information or whether the policy changed and the bot simply wasn't updated / retrained. The latter seems more likely but less inter…

Mazda isn't the first car company to abuse DMCA takedowns: https://github.com/toyotha/toyota-na

Google currently says .dev domains are $12 per year with no fine print about renewals. https://domains.google.com/registrar/search?searchTerm=asdfg... I think there's more to the s…

> Surely other patients must have asked about [this traumatic experience]? Or commented on it? I find myself having this reaction all too frequently after traumatic encounters with…

I don't disagree with the article at all, I think it's conclusions are probably largely right. But it's hard to take seriously when the very first figure has a logarithmic y-axis w…

I fully agree that at least in principle it seems wrong to have insurance for routine care, when most insurance only covers catastrophe. I think the two practical problems with thi…

There's a wide gulf between "some customers may have trouble using Slack" and "most/all customers are completely unable to use Slack". Putting aside formality, I'd say "Slack is do…

Can someone help me to understand all of the pessimism surrounding plant-based meat? Of all of the morally-dubious technologies in the world today, this seems like a force of unequ…

> The other party would pre-approve you and then you could request location on-demand? Precisely, and you could set a timeout (5 minutes, 24 hours, whatever) to automatically provi…

I disagree that ending trials early is solid science, or at least not _as_ solid as running them to completion. It makes it hard to know whether results are due to a treatment effe…

From the email to Trusted Contacts users: > Since then, we’ve built this functionality directly into Google Maps with Location Sharing That's simply not true. You can share your lo…

> Mostly because I don't like the trend towards optimal laziness personally It's easy to characterize home automation this way, and certainly "optimal laziness" is part of the appe…

> This move feels radical My understanding is that, at least depending on your goal, this isn't nearly radical enough. Some experts think we not only need to stop selling gas-power…

This is an argument against treating drivers as contractors, but it's not an argument against the OP's point, which is that a contractor relationship might be beneficial for some n…

In 2018, another Southwest flight used that same EMAS after overrunning the runway yet again, if you can believe it. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=219098

Unless you're talking about, say, botulism-contaminated food products that a grocery store discarded and a dumpster diver "recycled" on Amazon. Not saying that exact case has happe…

You've been able to get pretty decent Bluetooth in-ear headphones for $20-40 on Amazon for a few years now, can anyone comment on whether AirPods are really 10x better to justify t…

You can make that much and more by passively investing in index funds. What's the appeal in day trading then?

Does anyone know how stealth fighter aircraft are able to incorporate radar hardware that doesn't act like a giant retro reflector? Putting a radar array on the front of a stealth …

Most comments here point to cherry picking and "p hacking" as being the primary problems with p values. Certainly those are major issues, but I think they miss the real point of th…

The headline neglects to mention that the system is opt in and per-incident, which I think is a critical detail. It's not like police have 24/7 involuntary access to everyone's vid…

I read the whole article expecting the question posed by the title to be answered. It never was, nor was there any appeal to science, data, or statistics on UV skin photography. Pr…