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An interesting lesson from the "certified pre-owned" programs in automakers and mobile network providers. Permanent "leasers" swap devices every few years, stocking the company's s…

Think of it as picking the parking garage or lot you like, but skipping the hunt for an open spot. As these things go, if the service provider is able to make step one work and the…

Participants as equal owners doesn't preclude security guarantees. The advantage is having a voice in setting direction, investment and ultimate shared incremental profit recovery …

You haven't heard of them * unless you build hardware that talks to other hardware Then you've had lots of fun with EAR compliance.

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You only start to need the popups if you specifically put cookies on a visitor's browser to build a personal profile of them. This can be for e.g. sales acquisition or marketing en…

Use one of the cookie popup managers to automatically assert your personal identity sharing choices.

"People are forced into extensions, just to stop wasting their time here." Except, what actually has happened is that the annoying pop-ups became ubiquitous, and then relatively st…

The regulatory frameworks in the EU are intentionally not designed like the US, to maximize company profits over e.g. human rights and health. It is thoroughly documented that soci…

I remember having some kind of a shell app on my iPod Touch in college and needing to run and find wifi a few times to troubleshoot something at a job I was student working at. The…

The prevailing implementation of capitalism compels all companies to continue developing revenue streams to increase their overall “worth.” Any company that has unique or rare data…

When we let the market bubble-up protective conditions through buyer behavior, we advantage innovation at the cost of accepting more harms, because the market response is always re…

OP is not being literal. Satire and the interpretation of it are important for a healthy and nuanced world view and discourse.

0.5% of the starlink node network deorbits each month currently, though potentially more. They're already having a negative, contaminating effect on our upper atmosphere Sending up…

https://ev-database.org/cheatsheet/energy-consumption-electr... The Model 3 manages < 140 Wh/km, and many seem to be under 150/160/170.

If you're putting motors in wheels, lower weight means reducing the weight/capacity of adjacent systems. Lighter motors for mobile robots could also be cool.

We also need to consider the confounding effect of corporate performance and recession expectations. Cost centers in businesses are early canaries of expected pain, and a reduction…

By avoiding fishing, you stop damaging many of the carbon sink systems in the ocean, and so as a second-order effect improve the sinks we used to have.

Bell also "just" provided telephone service, but had a nation-wide practical monopoly, and so was broken up into different regional operators. The US has since gotten bad at dealin…

If you claim, for example, that an input is not stored, but examples of internal steps of an inference run _is_ retained, then this paper may suggest a means for recovering the inp…

I feel like, if the feedback to your paper is "this is over-done / they claim more than they prove / it's kinda hype-ish" you're going to get less references in future papers. That…

Especially when, as it is currently in vogue to observe, the difference between $50b and $1t is roughly $1t.

> exotic topics [...] I don't know how much We also don't know, in situations like this, whether all of or how much of the research is true. As has been regularly and publicly demo…