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Does anyone know the best way to get a reliably working PS2 nowadays? I happen to have a bunch of old PS2 games and would love to have a reliable PS2 to be able to use them with. B…

Note that it was snowy in NYC today, so people were likely dissuaded to drive by other factors than congestion pricing as well. It'll be interesting to see what impact there is as …

Apparently NJ turned down an offer of $100M+ per year: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/18/nj-refusing-generous-...

I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming servic…

The picture of the roundabout from above at the beginning of the article is extra confusing because it doesn't have the final lane markings yet and the ones you can see are mislead…

What's the benefit to streetcars over busses with a dedicated, physically separated right of way? I like the idea of streetcars, but busses seem easier to purchase than streetcars,…

Checking out on Amazon seems to have been down for a large number of users for the past 5+ hours or so (as of 10PM ET). This is the largest actual Amazon shopping outage I can thin…

The context here (since the title isn't too revealing), is that the FDA expanded approval for a drug despite essentially unanimous didagreement from the scientists actually analyzi…

It is, sort of, through Dependent Care FSA programs which let you contribute money pre-tax and then spend it on child care. For some reason though, the limit is $5000/year which is…

Thanks for the improved tip - I have found it hard to parse through all the address-bar-related about:config options in the past, the UI seems like a better way!

You can also tweak the behavior via `about:config` to emphasize the types of results you care about. I like to set `browser.search.suggest.enabled` to `false` to keep it from showi…

Are teachers really the ones pushing for such early starts of school? Anecdotally, most teachers I know don't love waking up at 5am in order to get ready and get to school on time.…

> "Bring my concerns to the people I have concerns with in private before having to talk about it in public" is just the right way to talk to people about problems. Yes, it typical…

> Interviewer: I suppose if you think that, the next obvious question is do you think Google itself is institutionally racist? > Dr. Gebru: Yes, Google itself is institutionally ra…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1323864823680126977 Trump's tweet, quoted in full below, is marked as "disputed" and possibly "misleading about an election or other civi…

It's a bug for sure, but conclusions like this are over the top for a single small bug: > This isn’t an Apple which has any concern over the quality of its products, or for its use…

Clickbait title. Actual title should be: [Orcas] Can Make Great White Sharks Flee in Fear

A large stretch of Queens Boulevard has a bike lane alongside of its local lanes now. I just biked the length of it the other day, it's actually quite a pleasant urban biking exper…

It's interesting that so many people would enjoy AMP, because on my Android, viewing AMP sites in Google's main app often feels much slower than regular web browsing in Firefox for…

Time makes a lot more sense than stops: for example, at Columbus Circle in NYC, a downtown A train that's one stop away is about 3.5 miles out. A downtown 1 train that's one stop a…