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Brown rats are an invasive species in North America and interfere with the natural ecosystem. Some places have gone to great lengths to eliminate them https://www.alberta.ca/histor…

Even LinkedIn had stories at one point but mercifully killed the feature recently

They do it so that the coffee stays warmer longer during the winter months

The contractor probably only terminated the fiber. The tools to do fiber termination and splicing are much more expensive than $75

Full article appears to be behind a paywall (or at least a login wall). Any alternative sources?

Every car I've had with SiriusXM also supported HD Radio. Low end cars tend to have neither, or only as a premium upgrade

You should avoid answering spam calls if it can be helped. If you don't pick up, your number will be marked as inactive in your system and they won't bother to call you in the futu…

Lead free solder is fine. When RoHS was first implemented, a lot of manufacturers had trouble changing their processes for the new solder. The result was a plague of bad, broken so…

"Disposable" lithium batteries are increasingly common. Mostly vapes and single-use phone charge packs. Even though these use rechargeable cells, they often don't include a means t…

You get hardware banned from Xbox Live when a mod is detected, simple as. There's not much incentives for offline modding because most of the 360's library is easily moddable on PC…

This is addressed in the article. The cuticle does nothing to protect against foodborne illness, and will likely degrade before you get the eggs home.

Neither will streaming, it seems. The big players are already moving to a one household per account rule

Reminder that you only count as unemployed if you are actively searching for a job, at least for statistics purposes. Low unemployment is often caused by people just giving up on t…

I don't think this is particularly impressive. It'll mostly be interstate driving, which can be safely handled by most adaptive cruise control systems already. I wonder how they wi…

1. Consumers will not pay extra for a longer-lasting bulb. Most will just get the cheapest available. Heavy duty bulbs exist for the commercial and industrial sectors, but are more…

I don't understand the obsession with EV range. 99% of people just need enough range to get to work and back. Even if you wanted to take a road trip (increasingly uncommon as plane…

Generally counterfeiters will strip the ink from a $1 bill and print a $20 or $50 on it. This way it feels like real money. It is easily detectable if you hold it up to the light, …

FLIR systems are limited in resolution and frame rate because of ITAR restrictions, even though they're the industry leader. Chinese systems have improved a lot in recent years and…

Microsoft doesn't want to be beholden to the Intel-AMD duopoly. By threatening them with ARM Windows, they force Intel and AMD to improve their low power offerings and to lower pri…

Why else would they lock up all their merchandise?

Debug symbols were left in the released binary for SM64

It depends heavily on your location. Public schools are generally assigned based on the student's primary address, so houses in good school districts tend to attract a premium. Thi…

Android has third party app stores and this doesn't happen for most apps (Fortnite is the big exception). If anything, app store competition will force Apple to reduce its ridiculo…

It probably was a SNES: https://snescentral.com/article.php?id=1019

>Even if it just switched the mirror between reflecting and not, I think it would be cool. This is basically how DLP projectors work