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Here you go: https://forklog.com/en/former-coinbase-employee-accused-of-c... https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corgi-the-buzzy-y-combinat...

Sure - and knowing what is not possible with current tech is a nice datapoint to have.

It's definitely pretty whiz bang but I'm curious how it would hold up to the dirt and grime of a backpacking trip. I'm also not convinced it is any better or lighter than poles (wh…

I'm guessing the op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string

It seems to me a lot of people just really don't like to be associated with public transit or anything associated with anything remotely underclass. It's a class marker to be drive…

Enough that a 5% annual return is enough for me to get by. I'm certainly not done working - I want to get that to 3% or so - but it does make it a bit demotivating some days when I…

I have the same feelings as the original poster as I get further into middle age and have a good retirement nest egg - for me there are things more valuable - free time and the thi…

Absolutely. The US' urban density problems, housing cost crisis - they all go back to car-based society.

Reminds me of this onion bit: https://theonion.com/scientists-politely-remind-world-that-c...

Agreed - once the ad-based profit model took off that no longer became possible.

'Thought leader' has always been a code word for 'bullshit artist'.

Honest question - what's your use case for needing GPS indoors? I generally know where I am when I'm indoors :)

Regarding your first point - how about George Santos? I suspect Santos was more well known than any of the crypto-scammers, was clearly guilty, was derided by both ends if the poli…

He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...

> But again, here in the US we are an order of magnitude less likely to be hit by a car. Huh - do you have a source for that stat?

My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days. The decision to post …

Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.: ~> cat semgrep.yaml rules: - id: no-pattern-matching pattern: | match ...: message: | I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Py…

There were quite a few slave revolts in the 19th century.

I suspect that is true but here is the difference: organizations that benefit from fewer prisons have a multitude of other things they benefit from (and can lobby for). Private pri…

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...

They travel c in vacuo but not through different media.

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