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Comment #48924590
There is a nuance missed in the discussion so far - Starlink is creating a new product level, differentiating service between continental and intercontinental aviation connectivity…
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Comment #48114545
It may be that the ideal number of ransomware operators is non-zero
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Comment #48054259
What's the physical basis for this effect? Does it happen in reality or is it a style choice?
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Comment #47577546
I wonder if consumer routers will end up being built in a trivially-not-a-router configuration - something akin to a pull-tab or turn of the screw that closes a circuit, transformi…
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Comment #47431765
I would love to see this integrated into Flighty.
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Comment #46532946
Genuinely curious how a date in the subheader of a changelog could have broken the CLI edit: it seems changelog.md is assumed to be structured data and parsed at startup, and there…
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Comment #46255833
Why anyone would allow their TV to connect to the internet is beyond me.
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Comment #46234212
Even the title "Orbital House of Cards" is unnecessarily editorializing.
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Comment #46175198
I have to agree. I tried using it for a few months and it left me convinced I'll be paying for iCloud photos for the rest of my life.
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Comment #46142306
While the FileVine service is indeed a Legal AI tool, I don't see the connection between this particular blunder and AI itself. It sure seems like any company with an inexperienced…
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Comment #45969088
Can confirm, my Model 3 had its lights angled too high from the factory. Only realized after a few people flashed their high beams at me during my first week driving. Thankfully it…
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Comment #45890571
Should it be mandatory also for the maintainers to accept these contributions? Every project would degrade into pure entropy.
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Comment #45787489
519 seems to have at least 3 solutions... feels a little underconstrained!
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Comment #45762432
Did your email offer you the chance to pay yearly for $11/mo? Mine did, but I don't think the option to pay yearly exists.
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Comment #45637402
There should be small pieces of whatever they hit embedded in the body & glass of the aircraft. As long as they are analyzed, the cause of this won't remain a mystery forever.
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Comment #45496038
Why do you believe the inter-satellite links are not working?
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Comment #45440296
I'm still heartbroken about Grooveshark all these years later.
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Comment #45428917
I don't understand how this is 100% free, no subscriptions, no purchase, apparently no ads or tracking and yet I'm also the "customer" and not the product. What's the catch?
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Comment #45293159
That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.
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Comment #45270038
Is this a joke because the site isn't loading at all?
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Comment #44924347
Is the author arguing that corporations should not be able to carry forward net operating losses? Or that this one specific company shouldn't be allowed to?