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> Supermarkets in the UK point cameras at your face at self-checkout. Though this is true, many supermarkets use this as a scare tactic instead of surveillance. I know a few people…

> The other three were pretty much traits of every major traditional religion at its founding. I think this suggests that all major religions are cults, rather than that Mormonism …

When cycling on shared use infrastructure I generally find pedestrians understand the meaning of a bell as a warning. Certainly some do become startled and move unpredictably, but …

What is the difference here between "Android" and "AOSP" (Android Open Source Project)?

The answer is the ultra-wealthy. Those on welfare are getting increasingly poor, while the ultra-wealthy are getting increasingly wealthy. It's clear where the money is going, and …

The US administration is threatening to invade the territory of an EU member state, so I'm not sure the use of 'enemy' is too hyperbolic.

Universal Signalling are a company doing exactly this to give better train location information to signallers. https://www.universalsignalling.com/news/latest#h.12nuchpah7...

The city does it for the benefit of the public, the Corp does it for the benefit of the shareholders

This might cause issues with polarised sunglasses

Can you trust the model when the people releasing it are using it in this way? Can you trust that they won't be training models to behave in the way that they are prompting the exi…

I suspect many people in this thread don't believe this is genuinely about preventing OpenAI from becoming a for-profit corporation.

For most bikes this ratcheting mechanism is in the back wheel, so when going down a hill the pedals, the chain ring, and the chain are all staying in the same position. In the demo…

People in the US have the right to petition the Government, regardless of their eligibility to vote.

I can't claim any expertise here either... But I can imagine that people accessing information about domestic abuse might not necessarily have regular access to internet connected …

I see these points as reasons why it might not be a good idea, but they don't explain why it is a bad idea. Other methods for leaving the site still work. Even if the button isn't …

Ok

More accurately, this is a quote from the Fight Club movie

Though interestingly there is a "Portsmouth" in West Yorkshire which is neither a port, nor at the mouth of any river or estuary.

Governments still have budgets. At the end of the day it's just money in, money out, except private healthcare has someone siphoning money in the middle.

I feel like DRM is a stretch, the chip in the cartridge is used to track how many washes are left so it knows if it is empty. The dishwasher can be used with regular tablets or pow…

This dishwasher is much smaller, so would require smaller tablets to work work efficiently. Certainly possible, and Daan Tech sell small tablets for this use. One benefit of measur…

Daan Tech broke their firmware update mechanism for lots of dishwashers in the field by losing their keys, more than once too. I own one such dishwasher and can't update the firmwa…

No reason to allow people on the platform if you can't monetise them, especially after monetisation has been paused for a few hours

Regardless of the moral question, digital piracy is not really "stealing"

Some satellites do appear to flash because they are tumbling: https://www.satobs.org/tumble/tumbleintro.html The flashing of satellites will generally be gentler than the short bur…