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Big Tobacco settlement - $206 billion Deepwater settlement - $20 billion VW Emissions settlement - $14.7 billion

There are 100% recyclable blades (including production byproducts) currently being tested. They are using Elium as the composite material which can be chemically broken down back i…

> By comparison Steve lived in a simple house on a public street. Up until his death, he was in a court battle to demolish and rebuild his mansion that sat on a 6 acre estate.

We can play the word game of hunger too. Any claim of hunger that is not followed by eating when given the opportunity is suspect. When a child complains of being hungry and pointi…

Or have you mislabelled your internal experience? No observer could describe you as curious. Identifying unknowns is universal but if it doesn't motivate you into action, surely th…

> Is curiosity a desire to gain knowledge? Is it a desire to see if you are right or wrong? Is it a drive to test existing hypotheses? Is it a motivation sparked by novelty or unce…

You are getting downvoted but this is the traditional history of philosophy as I understand it too (the history of Christianity will be different). Hellenic culture and texts had p…

I used InSync with a mounted drive. I rebooted and it ran before the drive mounted and deleted my entire online google drive contents and then deleted the local files when the driv…

Understandable but it didn't seem to happen like this in commercial GPU sales.

That feels a like a partner dipping into the scalper world whereas you want the top level companies to set out something more transparent.

It's a Taiwanese company around since the 90s. They may be more Europe focused with a German office. I've never heard a US reviewer mention them but in the UK, they offer cards che…

Yes, soon after posting I realised I was referring to Asus/MSI/Palit etc. rather than Nvidia. It means either two levels of auction or the Nvidia chip sale is a % of the end unit s…

It's a puzzle to me why companies like nvidia didn't just raise prices and instead left both customers and profit to the dirty world of scalpers. I guess it's "brand damage" but I …

> Computer Shopper was such an amazing magazine to go through I really miss that type of advertising. I don't want advertising intruding on unrelated activities, ruining tools and …

> That is despicable on Dell’s part Meh. It was well known when I bought one so it's not underhand and I find it a pretty irrelevant feature anyway. Ubuntu logs-in very quickly so …

I believe there are drivers available for fingerprint riders for Ubuntu 20.04. Needs an up to date bios update and I'm not sure about compatibility with older models e.g. http://de…

On Ubuntu, nvidia drivers update seamlessly as part of system updates. On Windows, I have to sign in to an nvidia account, solve 3 capcthas and then manually download half a gig of…

Yes, I think you are right, that counts as precedent. I was thinking of the famous battles chasing each other around the map that included entrenchment but didn't stall as signific…

Given the Ludendorff offensive failed I don't think you can call stormtroopers alone a solution. High casualties, outrunning supply and obtaining territory that is hard to defend w…

Calling trench warfare stupid because of conceptual obsolescence seems suspect. It was a new problem with no obvious solution. Trench warfare in the US Civil War didn't end in such…

Unlocked double doors create their own hazard. There is the tendency to bust through them saloon style, partly out of hedging your bet for which one is unlocked, only to lay a Loon…

> And Amazon...I can never quite figure out why they show me so much content that I can't access If you click the "Free to me" link at the top then it works pretty well for just wh…

Aw, I thought this was going to be about football pitches... John Beck did a fair amount of "pitch doctoring" at Cambridge United. He would play an exclusively long ball game, hoof…