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> Because insurance would then just lowball the cost of everything. They do . Many, many billable items are priced to the limit that insurance will pay. Insurance and providers hav…

If you're launching a fleet of drones, discretion is probably not a major concern. A coded sonic pulse could have exceptionally long range. Sure your enemies would detect it, about…

Your main challenge will probably be measuring the distance between neighboring drones as accurately as possible. AIUI you could recover signal from unevenly spaced receptors IFF y…

Or they can't afford to sell the cards at consumer prices. If they take a loss in the consumer segmet, they can recoup by overcharging the datacenter customers. That's how this sch…

I made that choice several years ago. All new PCs I buy/build are AMD only. The hardware is a bit finnicky, but honestly I prefer a thing to just be broken and tricky as opposed to…

> I have the freedom to read what I want. You're telling me I don't You don't. This is not a legally protected right in any US jurisdiction. Period. > This isn't about freedom of s…

They just read the title, not the article, then confabluate an entire world view from three words that are entirely untethered from the actual constitutional meaning.

Counterpoint: being useful to a more successful species is a staggeringly effective evolutionary strategy. Nature is chock full of symbiotic relationships and it's a perfectly vali…

Please feel free to point out which parts of the comment are incorrect.

It's been 25 years.

I thought this was just default with XFCE in general

C# is the first thing to come to mind. If you so choose you can more or less inline C and trample all over memory, or you can write very strict, statically typed, safe code.

Your assertion seems to be that Google's location service must be the best, and there's no way a trivial method can outperform it. Have you considered that google might just perfor…

He executed a man who has murdered unknown thousands of innocent people. How many of his victims had children?

> the term carcinogen is very broad No, it is very much not. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carcinogen > I think you just mean the bad ones can cause harm There are no …

Claiming that text is fiction does not change the fact that it contains illegal and potentially harmful advice presented as truth. As a legal defense, this is on par with "copyrigh…

That's how American law works. The law as written has very little to do with the law as practiced. Everything comes down to how courts interpret the letter of the law as it relates…

Forget about the particles for a second. This is about fundamental quantum fields. The fields can randomly fluctuate from the vacuum state into a more ordered state where virtual p…

Sounds like a layperson's poor understanding of an explanation from someone else who also doesn't really get it.

My CEO has been letting the AWS bill go unpaid, apparently not understanding that our entire business and all of our IP will simply vanish if our S3 bucket gets deleted. Zero backu…

That CEO didn't seem to have any qualms about killing people

I'm real interested in how a trial goes. Can you even find enough people in America who haven't been bent over by insurance to form an unbiased jury? I find it hard to imagine any …

As bad ideas go, this has to be one of the best.

By amounts so small as to be effectively zero even over the span of centuries. The article admits that tidal forces from the moon slow earth's spin by orders of magnitude more. Big…

Doesn't a PLA just boil down to a truth table that you can dump the same way? Or am I thinking of the other kind of programmable logic chip used for this purpose? GAL, I think?