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5G towers are typically much smaller and less conspicuous than the towers they are replacing. One of 5G's hallmarks is its "small cell" architecture.

The introduction of mechanical looms (is this what you mean by "modern"?) was famously terrible for workers. Weaving went from a high-skill, safe task to a dangerous, low-skill one…

You may recall that the DMCA was originally written to protect music and movies. It does in fact apply to creative works. If you have ever purchased an MP3, eBook, or streaming mov…

> I doubt these will have worse protection than software does, which has far better protections than copyright Software is protected by copyright. Some software may also be protect…

Many are openly working to create AGI with the aim of harnessing it to solve humanity's problems. Do you really think being able to command an entity with human-level intelligence …

You could tell from tone and polish how much effort someone had put into writing an answer. That was a pretty good signal for some topics on forum sites like Stack Overflow. There …

> Also keep in mind if your site is better indexed by crawlers you can literally influence future LLMs Ah, what a glorious fate to aspire to. Most people I know who have maintained…

Most state legislatures work under a similar model -- being a legislator is full time work for a couple months of the year, and the rest of the time, delegates/senators are expecte…

I'm sure there is a way to use a step debugger with a specific unit test in Neovim or whatever, but it's one of the things heavyweight IDEs do with no setup or configuration.

It's been a few years since I worked in this space, but HIPAA doesn't really work under the same kind of legal framework. Oversimplifying here, but basically HIPAA defines what con…

> - can run individual tests seamlessly This is the main one for me. If I am working on a large project with decent unit test coverage, the feedback loop in IntelliJ or Visual Stud…

By statute, an organization can only exist as a non-profit in the US if it is "organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes"[0], and non-profit hospitals specifically mus…

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hotdog today (if you want to get a circular investment bubble going)

> So what was valued? Physical robustness. Strength, perhaps brutality. Competence in physical tasks. Honesty. Parentage. Birth order (see primogeniture.) Those matter in per-techn…

Data & Society put out a paper on this role back in 2019 but used the term "moral crumple zones" since they were focusing on how to assign blame in autonomous vehicle crashes: http…

Yep, that's why substitute teachers' interests are more zealously guarded by Congress than the interests of billionaires are. Teachers have wielded the enormous power they hold to …

> consider how much lobbying money is coming from CEOs and companies who know the domain best and are agitating for better financial and social safeguards for all. To hear Marc And…

There are more recent versions with better names, like the Restore Trust in Congress Act[0], and one introduced a few days ago to ban congresspeople and the president (as well as t…

The $580MM transaction described in the article is already 1,000 times larger than the alleged congressional insider trading by Paul Pelosi that caused Sen. Hawley to introduce the…

You're right, but I think everyone is looking at second-order effects where causal links are impossible to prove. [0] is recent research on how expanding housing stock (even just a…

> Do you believe that small drop is a result of new development or just a blip in the market? I don't know, and I don't believe it's possible to know in a specific instance. Like I…

The article we are commenting on is literally about this happening in Austin.

Yeah, I live in Falls Church, which has seen more build-up than other areas in Northern Virginia because the city has never had the kind of restrictive zoning that the anti-"Missin…

> I've never understood this: If I replace a single home with 20 apartment homes, I've raised the value of the whole property at purchase time no? It's a commons problem. In your s…

Are you saying there is no difference between the aggressiveness shown by the Department of War since it was renamed vs the years prior to the renaming? Because it sure looked to m…