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Facebook/IG are the cigarettes of our age, and no less unhealthy; we should regulate them as such.

For what it's worth, RMS' statements on the matter don't appear to concern what is "right", "wrong", or "acceptable" - they appear to concern only the available evidence. Then agai…

IANAL. One of the reasons that this feels so novel is that this is an example of ex post facto enforcement. In this case, Twitter is punishing the user for an action performed at a…

I really hope that this becomes an annual effort so that we can finally study the effects of black hole mergers on the Central Park squirrel count.

Thanks for the explanation. I completely misunderstood the effect. Now, I misunderstand it a little bit less. Progress!

When we discovered that neutrinos oscillate, we knew that they had mass because we were able to observe a change from within our frame of reference, implying a finite time dilation…

Judging from the units on the graph, looks like the author measured the inverse reactive current used by the unilateral phase detractors. Cache purging wouldn't play a role unless …

Yes, on newer versions, this can happen when Tracking Protection is enabled. This feature causes things like CAPTCHA and other third-party scripts to break. When this occurs, look …