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It would likely get voided as unconscionable if they just unilaterally demanded it, but it might hold up in specific circumstances (if the user is well-aware of the salary demand w…

A lot of big manufacturers have had recalls (for things like laptop batteries, vehicle batteries, the infamous Hoverboards, etc) so I wonder what Anker's batting average is compare…

It's not just a theory. It's well documented that Apple has a bunch of APIs and protocols (like AirPods proprietary low latency wireless instead of Bluetooth, NFC was not allowed u…

Ambulances are expensive enough that people are hesitant to call them, sometimes even in life threatening situations. And if the person is unsure whether the situation is critical,…

If we're talking about public tracking: package theft

And Waymo doesn't currently operate on highways for passenger service (I think they have authorization to, but they're only testing on highways right now). They should be able to g…

Most likely both agreements had been in negotiations for a while and not something they just pulled together last week in response to SJC, although it's possibly they could have us…

Most cities don't have the density and wealth of Manhattan. How do we solve the last mile problem for everyone else?

Taxi services can potentially complement public service by filling in the gaps: last-mile connections (home to train station) and backup service late at night when transit runs les…

Could also be a big challenge if you have dozens or hundreds of autonomous cars in the area that need manual intervention to get them out (plus the people who get stuck there)

This seems unlikely. People are creating libraries and they're getting a lot of downloads because they're genuinely useful. It's a lot of work to write and maintain a library just …

To be nitpicky, React itself does not specify that state management must be global. It was a popular pattern, starting with Facebook's blog post on Flux and made popular by Redux. …

There's quite a few formats that are self-describing already, so having a format that can skip the type and key tagging for that extra little bit of compactness and decoding effici…

I never went to parties in high school, but based on my experience going to parties in college and as an adult, I imagine your individual experience at the parties would be very di…

Also depending on how many corners you're willing to cut. Half the cost but a 1% chance that it turns around and targets a friendly? Some countries would take that trade.

I wonder if Ukraine has been removed from the exclusion list since then. A quick Google search says that the keyboards layouts are different from Russian keyboards.

The heat load of the ISS is a handful of astronauts and some equipment and whatever it absorbs from the sun. Not an entire data center or a nuclear rocket which is where the radiat…

As someone who isn't a Go programmer, on the face of it using strings (struct tags) for field metadata seems pretty backwards compared to Rust macros (which parses the metadata at …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster There's also many advantages to being able to lift something large/heavy in one go, rather than smaller payloads that need to be unfo…

The Slickdeals comment thread for the HP Touchpad firesale has over 285,000 comments https://slickdeals.net/e/3220862-hp-touchpad-9-7-wifi-tablet...

Have you seen Adaptation (2002)? It has a wildly meta, fictionalized/comedic portrayal of Susan Orlean's book and the creative process of screenplay writing

Yes. These people are the rank-and-file, doing good engineering work until the USDS got hijacked by Elon's crew. It's also harder to speak out when you're a US government employee,…

On desktop, CPU decoding is passable but it's still better to have a graphics card for 4K. On mobile, you definitely want to stick to codecs like H264/HEVC/AVC1 that are supported …

I would generally agree, but in many cases 1) people don't read the comments/replies, 2) interesting responses get drowned out by low-quality responses, 3) the criteria by which us…

Sometimes it's good to know where people stand when they're shooting themselves in the foot.