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Running a partial plate is common. Especially in a hit and run where a witness might only get a few digits. Cops regularly made the exact same kind of mistake even when using their…

I know we're all sharpening pitchforks for Flock - but the national license plate database has been leading to mistakes like this for decades . Some states also compound the proble…

I think about this a lot when using our corporate SSO tool. When I hit the button to log into Slack, there are like, 3 popups in succession - the last one ultimately asking for my …

To put it more specifically the third-party doctrine needs reforms. There are lots of things that are public information. Anyone can request public records like land titles, marria…

The product we're talking about here is CLEAR. And one of the deep ironies is that CLEAR is already highly deployed at the state level, among other things, to verify voter identity…

Ames True Temper. Nearly every brand of wheelbarrow you see at hardware stores is just a white-labelled Ames product. (With the exception of Gorilla Cart and a few niche players).

I think E-Books are a bad test subject. Theoretically they are a durable good, but realistically the demand for a single public domain eBook is not a large market and easily satisf…

Twain is a good choice, but he also works against the mythology of America. His whole thing was popping bubbles and making grounded stories that work against the backdrop of Americ…

The most technically correct answer is Walt Whitman. Longfellow got dismissed by several people here for being too sentimental - but I would argue that sentimentality and saccharin…

> “If we use art that looks nearly complete, then people would think that that’s going to be the final art. It has to look like shit. It’s important that it looks like shit.” This …

There's a reason Japan could be burdened with the largest modern nuclear disaster and then choose to double down on nuclear capacity. It's an island nation with no domestic energy …

This is probably somewhat true, but also I suspect there might be an order of magnitude difference from extracting trace lithium from inert rock vs collecting it as a salt from amo…

The thing missing here is that nearly all of the games that use these nodes + stones are a variant on Nine Men's Morris (or Twelve Men's Morris, or etc). Discovering the ruleset fo…

The truth is that bombing campaigns alone have never been an effective way to end a conflict. All they do is strengthen resolve. Even the most extreme case of the nuclear bombs in …

This is one of the reasons weapons and technology development overall explodes during wartime. Desperation is the cure for risk aversion. It's also a reason to be skeptical of a mi…

Fox News doesn't seem to understand the difference between News and an Editorial. Also, if you want to take sides in a story, take it with the side that can admit making a mistake.…

> She probably will not publish this result because she thinks it is not interesting enough. Classic file-drawer problem in academic science. It's truly insane that everyone in the…

I have a friend who works at Ubisoft. Even 10+ years ago, she clearly saw the writing on the wall - the massive developer/publisher consolidation was going terribly: - Every studio…

A lot of where they are getting water from right now is an ancient underground aquifer - there's not a lot of water there though, so the plan was it was a stopgap while the water r…

He quite often gets into problematic areas of many projects - see his series on Billionaires row in New York. There's just an exceeding amount of signal to noise ratio when it come…

I would argue a fast food kitchen (or any kitchen) is a factory. An incredibly efficient one at that. Things are made and assembled to order from intermediate components. We take i…

In contrast, Nintendo's idea to sell physical games that are essentially transferrable keys seems like a much smarter compromise. Part of the appeal for the Switch and Switch 2 is …

Just to add to this, women make up 20% of the Army, but only account for 2% of ground combat units (even less during the period this data was taken). Women in the Army were disprop…

In the long run, green energy and data centers are ultimately going to be complimentary. One of the biggest problems with investing in a renewable grid is curtailment and managing …

Fair, but the year over year growth of labor productivity has been really consistent, as has consumer prices: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=tjto So in terms of how much cons…