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Lots of products. Its called Tariff Engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_engineering . Probably the best known example is Converse. "The felt lining on the bottom of th…

Should have just bought a monorail.

This made me think a little more. When people talk about "dogfooding" they usually mean using a product as an end user, the consumer or customer. Who is the customer of doordash? T…

What exactly does "audit" mean to you? Ballots typically do have unique IDs usually on some part that is removed by the voter. The problem is that isn't linked to anything because …

This sounds like the ransomware services which prevent installation when Cyrillic keyboards are detected. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...

If you don't represent the views of the voters you won't win. Another way to say it is "if you're not of the society, you will be outcast and blockaded from any chance of winning."…

Smell marijuana > Search vehicle

I get the sarcasm but really its a duopoly game like a Stackleberg. The best move is to match and not try to undercut.

I was curious and I pay 11¢ in Colorado.

I'm so happy my last flight was on a 747. It's truly stunning if you haven't flown on one before. I also had the pleasure of visiting the C17 plant in Long Beach. Blew. My. Mind.

Ahhhh now I get it. It's so rare for institutions to do internal projects like this I didn't even consider it to be anything but a commercial revenue extraction machine.

I think you answered your own question and I'd be right there with you.

That's great, thanks. I get frustrated as a technical staff person, who personally enjoys being on the cutting edge, often being the one in meetings saying 'data is great but how w…

Students used to (still) take the iClickers ( https://www.iclicker.com/ ) for other students to answer questions in large lectures.

I work in higher ed. I wouldn't say admin are douchebags, they are just under pressure and responding with a solution. For various reasons schools are under pressure to increase st…

I work in higher ed and we use a student success analytics platform. Where I see this going wrong is administrators want a system to do everything. We want to identify the at-risk …

Also easily spotted are military outposts littered across North Africa.

True, very true. I'm part of a University system pension scheme that, while operating with a sizable unfunded liability, is fairly stable and has a good outlook. In the end there i…

Yeah as a state employee my pay looks low compared to what some of my peers make. When you factor in benefits and 14% in pension contributions not to mention good culture and work-…

Yup this would have been a continuation of Scalia's majority opinions like Jones, Kyllo, and Jardines. Also his dissent in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld was and will be fantastically important…

Ha yeah. I know NPR One you don't need to remind me that I'm listening to NPR One constantly.

I read it every day. If only to contextualize the other news sources I read. FWIW I throw in some infowars when something big happens so I can see how certain segments will try to …

Yeah it's Alphabet's site. You play by their rules. Don't like it? Well there's always other options.

Some of the latest polling data shows Trump at or leading Bush. If anything, Republican primary voters will really respond to his rhetoric. They eat up the Only True Conservative v…

Which is a great reason to know your closest payphones. Just in case.