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This story got kicked out of front page quite suddenly, not sure how/why. Lots of points and comments.

The author says that the resale value to PGE is 25% of the buying price. Is there some way to get a better rate by selling CPU time instead, when the sun shines and batteries are f…

It reminds me of the Tao Te Ching of Laozi... and Jesus' parables in the New Testament. So maybe your idea has a future...

The president nominates the SEC chair, and can fire him. This explains how, written just before Trump assumed power: While he can't force Gensler to step down as a commissioner at …

Actually now US citizens are impacted too. Michigan-based attorney Amir Makled [a US citizen] was detained by federal immigration agents while returning home from a family vacation…

I think this is an excellent discussion to have. Say we implement this, a natural consequence would be mega-corporations providing every service possible. My Yamaha bike displays a…

Thanks for the link, I think this is helpful and the tips resonate with me. As I get older, the desires that "work" are very frequently the same ones as I had when I was a child.

I recently bought a new laptop, I did not buy the Office license for the first time and I am trying LibreOffice. It's been a month, so far it's great, I hope I will be able to stic…

I have been using Blender to design 3D models, since I had some knowledge of it. Wondering why not more people are using it for CAD. Are the other tools much better? Why?

What's the distance you need to cover ? BLE use very little power, is wireless, can go 100m or so, max.

I have seen videos of small turtles going really fast on tiny skateboards. All of a sudden, they become a fast animal and seem happy with it. A bit like human with a bike or a car.…

I am wondering if many Open AI engineers feel mistaken today for having promised to follow Sam Altman to MSFT after the board action.

Very interested in your first rabbit hole. Which servos did you use? Which gears? For me, it would be to use with an action camera. How many hours did you spend on it before you we…

> It also should be considered [...] on chance To be fair to the author, this is very much mentioned. And yes, luck has played a role as well. We closed out 2023 with a near-perfec…

Really neat. Thank you for posting. Results are polluted for me with public transportation stations. I did not realize each of them had a wiki entry... of course geotagged. Not sur…

For any 20+ years-old readers here, if you ever think/dream about starting a business, you should learn from OP that cash and savings is paramount for freedom and creating a busine…

Side story on Prince: This American Life, episode 750, part 3, has a story I enjoyed about the guy who opened Prince's vault after his death. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/750/t…

>The Mac App Store should already be safe, as users are free to download and install apps direct from developers Not a Mac user/dev here. If I am not going through the store, if I …

You are most likely right. In my dreams, I take the time going there in person with my ID, my anger and my badwill, and no tax return. I get wildly upset in front of all other clie…

I tend to agree with you. I have a bank account with about 5K euros on it. I have not touched it in 20 years (no deposits, no withdrawals). I earn tiny dividends on it each year. I…

Nitpick of mine: timezones. I work in a different timezone than where I live, so my laptop is set to a different time for convenience. Half the time, the delivery time is adapted t…

Then you should be interested in the story of MarketBasket, a major supermarket chain in New England. Their CEO was fired, but came back because of employees. Similar, in a very di…

Can one guess printers email addresses and start spamming random printers? I dont see any way to register the sender's expected email on the printer. Back to fax spamming...?

According to the article: To make this palatable to the American public, those whistleblower rewards are not courtesy of the taxpayer; they’re courtesy of money seized from previou…

It may not be the clerverness of the obfuscation that beats the spammer's bot. If you go to such lengths to obfuscate your email, then you may simply not be a bad target for my bot…