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> All of my kids spent hours pouring over a book we had called 'The Way Things Work' with a delightfully funny Mammoth and a good description of how things actually work I grew up …

> Usually, companies like Apple are largely to blame Just as a point of fact, Micron and its peers have in the past operated an illegal cartel that engaged in a price fixing conspi…

> Many such IDs are designed for local physical verification, like proof that the mobile phone owner is above certain age or has a valid driving license, they are not designed for …

> Google and Apple both need a culling similar to what Elon did with Twitter after taking over. You could cut Google's size by 40% and they'd still have more corporate employees th…

> note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. See also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch…

> They scaled up the team briefly, which meant that lots of weird stuff was tried, but the roadmap was diluted. Boz never cared for Portal, it wasn't his product. I was one of the …

> It's common here in France for credit card operators to have fees in the 5-10% range (or 0.30€ per operation + 2% of the amount) Interchange in the EU is capped at 0.4% for credi…

> That sounds like bullshit to me. Have you taken a US domestic flight? Everyone wants to bring their massive roll-ons into the cabin, nobody wants to check if they can avoid it.

> SpaceX already produces solar panels for the 10,000+ satellites it has in space No they don't, they procure them from Taiwan Solar Energy Corp. They do not produce or manufacture…

> Beneath the Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street in Boston, tucked away in the basement, sits a library This is underselling it: it's in a side street off Newbury, where nobody woul…

> Meanwhile in Germany: Let's stick to combustion engines for at least 10 more years with 500km range and a multiple of energy and maintenance costs... BMW is heavily invested in N…

> Actually, it can barely fix the literal busiest station in the country Liverpool Street isn't managed by TfL, it's managed by Network Rail.

> Majority of California based companies employee English only or English and Spanish speakers possibly with some Indian language as well [...] Never mind rarer languages like Czec…

> Your post feels like the last generation lamenting the new generation [...] There's so much plumbing and refactoring bullshit in writing code [...] I've had my excitement I don't…

> in any other threat model, security is an advantage of closed source I think there's a lot of historical evidence that doesn't support this position. For instance, Internet Explo…

> What kind of control would Chrome have over the web? Adding APIs doesn't force the billions of websites to adopt them. You are assuming adding APIs is a net positive, and the deb…

> Building physical buildings is a much simpler, much less complex process with many fewer degrees of freedom than building software. I don't...think this is true? Google has no pr…

> quite puzzling is how the Air India disaster still does not have a root cause analysis done Not that puzzling: the most likely explanation is pilot suicide and the Indian governm…

"Need blind" here just means that your ability to pay the fees doesn't factor into the admissions decision, not that the admissions office doesn't know how wealthy you are (...sinc…

> Can I now build my app in Xcode with an Android target and use that binary in the Play Store? No. The vision document[1] lays out the direction of travel. Currently the focus is …

> These tasks aren’t business priorities and had no impact on customers and other teams ...the author has reached the wrong conclusion from this. The problem is they weren't able t…

> I wonder what the technical details will look like It’s already a thing, the EMVCo standard predates ubiquitous internet connectivity. Mass transit systems typically use it, airl…

> This is textbook strategy [...] attempt to build a moat around something that ideally is open and interoperable It's so textbook that Google two weeks ago came out with their own…

> I've seen a lot of harsh, misguided takes over the past few days, like that the Windsurf founders screwed over their employees [...] In this case, this seems like a happy ending …

> How the hell did this pass code review? Are booleans strings on Android? You are misreading the documentation, it's a key/value API. `DISALLOW_FUN` is the string key you pass to …