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There's a bit of advocacy involved here-- the writer is trying to convince you that the sequence of events was so absurd as to be not "foreseeable". Other than that, I agree with y…

In case this helps anyone, I found that removing a Yubikey (i.e. with that contact sensor) seemed to reduce the number of times I opened my bag to find a Macbook Pro unexpectedly w…

"Dutch Roll" in context: it's one of the dynamic modes of a plane -- a bit like the "phugoid" (e.g. when your paper airplane repeatedly speeds downward, pitches up, stalls, and spe…

I, too, suffered through this ordeal in the name of self-repair. The worst of it was having to, every now and then, file a slot into a tiny screw I'd stripped (#%!*) so I could con…

Yahoo uses CoinMarketCap. Can't tell if new number is failover or overflow.

Was given the 8880 Super Car as a kid. Pretty sure it's the only reason I survived a vacation on an island having, unexpectedly, no automatic transmission cars.

Aside: article points a finger at sanctions but doesn't mention another fascinating problem-- Iran is one of the few countries left that isn't party to a copyright treaty. As Irani…

A practical win-win-win outcome might've been for the GameStop board to issue expensive shares to institutional short coverers and then to declare a one-time special dividend-- not…

Poster above might be referring to this: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/10/03/...

(Haven't read the judgment or materials, but) this decision seems to be in line with a similar 2001 UK case also involving a spy book and the special remedy of disgorgement of prof…

Here's a practical argument for why you might need a lawyer to answer this question: the question gives rise to many, many legal issues. Some examples follow; no particular order. …

[Not US lawyer, but] an option open to some common law courts is leaving the legal owner in place while declaring that the thing owned is for the benefit of someone else (i.e. a be…

My flatmate tried to "compressed air" his laptop once using his lab's compressor. Didn't turn the laptop off. Only two fan blades survived. We glued the other blades back on to tid…

This is exactly the sort of thinking that let Pepsi bail on a jet fighter contract in the 90s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc .