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I believe that was sarcasm.

Aside from air, ocean water, sunlight, and a few types of rocks, I don't know if that's ever the case. Pretty much as soon as something is declared "free", people will consume so m…

The constituents elect the experimenters, and generally become the experimenters thereby.

Texas leads the nation in raw renewable energy production. Solar, wind, and nuclear are hardly maligned there.

Just don't be invested in AI stocks, heavily leveraged in the stock market and about to retire, or work at a place built on such?

A disc alone isn't sufficient for reselling without anti-online-DRM policies, but a disc is basically necessary to allow reselling still.

Starbucks and Black Rifle both sell coffee in cans right next to the energy drinks now. I haven't personally seen any high-caffeine products marketed to kids personally though.

To really stop inflation, the fed would have to ramp up interest rates, stop printing money, and Congress would have to cut spending and raise taxes. It's worth it to reward busine…

The only tax incentive for employers is deducting it as a business expense. I.e., paying with pre-tax income. Individuals can also do that if self-employed. Individuals are the one…

You've been able to Google your symptoms and get a maybe answer for twenty years. I don't see how AI replaces doctors any more than WebMD did.

Police don't do anything after the fact. The problem is with attorneys general and/or judges either not prosecuting people or giving them too light of sentences. All police do is a…

A hogshead is 6.768 bushels in the US and 7.875 in the UK.

Depends a lot on where you live. My village is pretty fresh cuz I update it lol. My impression is that it's quite good in western Europe, might take a month in major US cities, and…

You can buy bottles of ink on Amazon. Tank printers, jerryrigging, and people refilling cartridges have all been decently common for a long time, so there are plenty of random comp…

That study doesn't say "freak out". It says 83% ever showed "any fear" of fireworks, which is a huge variation. My doesn't like going outside when there are fireworks, but the soun…

Concord is explicitly an online-only FPS. I don't think that's representative of most games.

With IPv4 there's zero chance of that. At most, you could get all the people who were using [Gmail] around that time. With IPv6, mayyybe, but that assumes the hotel does as much da…

No, if they violate a clearly defined right, you can often still sue them individually, although that's usually suboptimal as the government has deeper pockets.

This is how California is legislating it—requiring the OS to let an admin set the user's age, then let browsers and through them, websites, to query that setting.

Eh, I think lattes are definitely the most popular drink at Starbucks and Dunkin.

Both theories would be easily testable. The danger is also much smaller if it's not on your Wi-Fi regardless.

Iced espresso drinks are the large majority of what people buy at, e.g., Starbucks.

Where you order ingredients doesn't take away from the preparation and cooking. Pushing a button and having a machine turn those ingredients into a final product does eliminate its…

I think your quote is incorrect. I haven't seen that the family has done anything since the donation. It was unrelated neighbors who sued.