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And here, we went from being able to get ABC from literally anywhere in the house without the antenna extended to having to get the position right when in a good location; we also …

People will still remember when they were able to get more OTA channels, because analog signals degrade when weak instead of being non-decodeable.

Correction, Mastodon has used ActivityPub instead of OStatus since version 1.6, only using OStatus to communicate with software such as GNU Social that doesn't support ActivityPub.…

It's how Whitney's always done it: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

Now for smashing magazine to change their font colors to #000, for legibility's sake.

I'm having none of these problems, it's more legible than all of the "modernized" websites I've seen. Reasonable serif font, pure black text, pure white background. More legible th…

Why does it need to look "modern?" If it's not broken, why try fixing it?

"a car you can put your kid into to drive them to school" Also known as a schoolbus.

I prefer curl -s "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=$1" | jq ".[0] .price_$1" | sed 's/\"//g' for silent curl and no quotes in output. Unfortunately, this does add a…

And the Roadster doesn't have real side skirts to seal up the tunnel, which significantly degrades any diffuser downforce.

It's text-only when you use http://thin.npr.org

externalities are inherently costs/benefits, the only thing that's different is who is affected.

Amp doesn't bring anything new to the table in terms of best practices, what is new is agglomerating even more online content under Google's control via caching. Lightweight page d…

Unless it's a dictionary attack.

It's definitely empirically true, and you've got a vague anecdote to prove it.

Multiple people in one place can still be completely wrong. Concussive events are what matter when it comes to CTE; many of them occur without physical contact to the head just as …

That has nothing to do with aspects considered in the context of linguistics, however.

That's exactly what they're doing: http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-netflix-youtube-throt...

And urban streets used to be for pedestrians first, until the automotive industry lobbied to create the crime of "jaywalking."

Funny how that changes all of a sudden, with the whole history of printing being an effort to get as close as possible to perfectly black ink on perfectly white paper.

If you're implying what I think you are, that's still not justification for torturing the aforementioned person.

Even a week is too long, the effects on the brain can be measured by EEG within a few days, specifically a state of stupor and delirium. The psychological effects are dangerous and…

Slavery was specifically written into the 13th amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convic…

A note: Herman Wallace was released on October 1, 2013 because of advanced liver cancer. The state reindicted him on October 3, but he died the next day a free man. Albert Woodfox …