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>Then you just give everyone a different discount and only the privacy-minded folks end up paying the (inflated) sticker price. This is already happening at Lidl. I was standing in…

> aircraft surveillance has moved from controller-based interrogation to automatic broadcast I'd take issue with the phrasing "moved from" and would rather use "supplemented by". C…

Athletes on that level rarely have just one coach throughout their careers, and are constantly striving to do better. Players of team sports demand trades due to (perceived, if not…

>if someone keeps getting passed up for an award, it just signifies that there are people who deserved the award more I would be less salty if another author received it over Murak…

Yeah, I just happened to read that last chapter of Colorless Tsukuru at the right time in my personal life where I could relate directly to just about every sentence, and at the en…

I'm not the OP, but Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore are my favorites.

I can't upvote this enough. I have a degree in physics, but even so every year around this time for about the past decade I pay more attention to the literature prize, waiting for …

On a related note, a couple of weeks ago I wanted to meet up at a friend's house to watch the Overwatch ELeague finals airing on TBS (basically a competitive video game event on na…

If you have an iPhone the PhotoPills app [0] will help with steps 1 and 3 (and in a lot of other photography situations as well). I found it to be worth the money. That said, my Mi…

I went from an original Kickstarter Pebble, to a Samsung Gear 2, to a Moto 360, back to the Pebble Time Steel. It really does seem like Pebble provides a better product all around.…

This sounds almost exactly like the plot of the anime "Psycho-Pass". The story takes place in an authoritarian future dystopia, where omnipresent public sensors continuously scan t…

The clients I work with tend to still use physical fax machines to send/receive financing details to small banks and credit unions. The banks themselves probably use some sort of i…

>Faxing is 90% dead as far as I can tell. I've got a fax machine, I think the last time I plugged it in was 2008. Depends on the industry. I would say probably 80% of the clients I…

>Small sensors are getting better. They are, but they will also hit a physical wall at some point (if not already), and you'll continue trading "natural" dynamic range and low nois…

>The Tao is not a physical system. If these are unmeasurable, non-modelable systems that we can never comprehend, then how can we say that they are "physical systems" that differ f…

One thing to note about open circumaural headphones is that everyone around you can almost certainly hear what you're listening to. I work in an open office and like to listen to r…

This was something that confused me a bit too. On their product page they mention twice (once as a bold headline) that the maximum aperture of the camera is f/1.8. Why? I'm guessin…

>But us not ever being able to understand it does not mean there is no reasoning behind it. I didn't mean to imply that. But honestly, the idea that there exist physical systems in…

>There may well be phenomena in the universe (or elsewhere) that are not amenable to modeling in any way that is compatible with human cognitive machinery. Could these phenomena co…

Wasn't one of the excuses the CEO had for missing pay dates that his money was tied up in IRS dealings? Maybe a copy of QuickBooks would've helped with that.

But isn't price still an issue with those new aircraft? I've thought many times about trying to get my pilots license but have always been dissuaded by the thought that the only ge…

Related question: If some other advanced civilization sent us one of these iPhone sized computers, do we have the technology to detect it before it zooms past our planet or burns u…

The kid is a public figure, so I'm not sure what you mean there. Public figures are frequent subjects for comedians because of the shared experience between them and the audience. …

I'm a big comedy fan and found this whole case to be pretty disturbing. It validates the idea that a comedian should be punished, legally, for doing their job and telling a joke. I…