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Hooray! We can finally dispose of Betteridge's "Law"!

Embraer obviously isn't quite a Boeing or Airbus but their E-Jets seem like viable narrow-body jets. Now if the argument is that the USA isn't ok with all of the big jet manufactur…

That's generally the case. Alaska's UBI program requires that the recipient live in Alaska for the previous calendar year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Perma…

I'm not familiar with anti-gouging laws, but I'd be curious to see if Amazon's typical "we're the marketplace, not the seller" argument applies during declared emergencies or if th…

They were going to get kicked out for spring break anyhow. Then again at the end of the semester. It's temporary housing. I do empathize with the minority of folks for whom this re…

Because I looked at the photos of the "riot": https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/photos-police-rio... And the kids on the street generally look like entitled middle-class w…

I'm not sure that this is why students are rioting, but the University of Dayton men's basketball team is currently experiencing unprecedented success (ranked third nationally), an…

> If you're not trying to be snarky avoid stuff like "dalliance for tech bros lighting money on fire" Haha, that's fair. To be clear, I believe remote work is generally more produc…

Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are…

Mongo reminds me of Tesla - early products were shoddy but had incredible hype. "It's incredibly fast!" "It's web scale!" "It'll be able to drive itself cross country in a couple o…

It's already been established that hosting the Olympics in the current fashion is generally a money loser for the host city. All of those resources expended to build state-of-the-a…

That's funny, I just had a bad experience with Microsoft. I applied for a job on their site that had several locations listed, one of which was of interest to me. A recruiter sent …

Every time I see yet another library of web components I think of the classic XKCD about standards. Apparently there were N web component libraries but none of them were just what …

I think the statistics to compare self-driving miles vs human driven miles are quite tough to judge. Tesla was criticized quite a bit at one point for comparing deaths per Autopilo…

> Options add value, in luxury cars, a sunroof and alloy wheels are pretty much essential, not getting one means negative value on resale. I've heard the opposite, that options don…

Reading their FAQ it sounds like you get to take a quick test drive and do a visual inspection, no mention of being able to take the car to a mechanic for a thorough pre-purchase i…

The Nordic Language Processing Laboratory has a sizeable collection of open source parallel texts: http://opus.nlpl.eu Click on any of the headings in [brackets] on the top of the …

That might be a good 90% solution - car registrations are public records, which tons of companies harvest, which is why you get those annoying extended warranty junk mailers, etc. …

How would manufacturers know when cars change hands? Sure, in the example in the article, it was a lease that was turned in to a Ford dealer. But I've sold cars by handing my keys …

Any support for languages other than English? Does it do normalization as part of the typo search (in case of missed/incorrent accent marks, etc)? Does it do stemming at all? For E…

IANAL but the prominent (c) The Royal Collection Trust overlaid on each map caught my attention. Shouldn't these very old maps be in the public domain?

I feel like the problem is that it isn't a huge market opportunity (at least by Apple scale). Checking out these graphs about Apple's revenues, apparently Mac revenues are pretty f…

> Replacing an iMac also means getting rid of a perfectly good monitor. This is the thing that absolutely friggin kills me with the Mac lineup. As a developer I see monitors and co…

Proximity matters. If I have a basketball court in my house, I'm going to want to have a little locker-room/bathroom off of it so that I (and my guests) don't have to trek to the b…