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Comic Sans is extremely legible on small screens for people with poor eyesight. It's a perfectly acceptable use of the font.

Vacant property insurance can also be more expensive in certain locations as untenanted buildings tend to get quickly vandalized and have higher rates of arson. Easier to just put …

Since the mid 90's I've been having trouble keeping up with which soft drink conglomerate or highly leveraged hedge fund owns Cadbury in any given week, and whether it's one of the…

>"Easily transported"? Are you nuts? It has far less chemical compatibility than LNG and is wildly more dangerous to people. It gets even worse if the ammonia has any impurities. W…

I feel that this is an edge case that only applies to unencrypted radio transmission in Ukraine. Please get back on topic.

>Transmit power is highest when near the range limit for a cell tower, since the handset increases power when more range is needed. Yeah, in addition to the inverse square law, dev…

You can't divide by 4.5kg as the distribution of power into the human head is not homogeneous. It's going to be much much higher adjacent to the ear. In any case this is burst powe…

Could have been hand to mouth contact from any number of sources. Bacterial biofilms are pretty easy to transfer and as we recently learned from eating bats it only has to happen o…

>they're not eating a gallon of coke or a bucket of M&Ms Most cats and dogs are eating carbohydrate rich mass produced pet food made by a very familiar privately owned chocolate co…

Most diesel and natural gas reciprocating engines can be switched to ammonia with only changes to fuel pumps and injectors. It's a great easily transported bridge fuel that can rep…

I reckon you're right, but I doubt that it's manual or under Google's control. Google is too important a tool of control to be left in the hands of Silly Valley idealists. I've alw…

Oh it's far worse than that. The next fundamentalist quasi-dictatorship in Romania, Poland or Hungary gets to decide what's illegal and immoral and therefore censored in Belgium an…

I think this is going to expose the core problem in Europe, that the political classes of the "liberal" member states are just giving lip service to the "fraternity equality libert…

Platforms are responsible for everything shown to a user inside the EU. I suspect that Google and Facebook will not offer country specific blocklists like they do for Nazi content …

Most libraries in the US and Australia have access to the Kanopy streaming video platform if you can't afford Netflix any more. It has an interesting selection of content. Many wil…

Things like "fairness" aren't defined in the legislation and will be determined in smoke filled rooms by shadowy moneyed interests. Ordinary users will get censored. By the courts,…

Google doesn't know what the algorithm is anymore. The whole site is a black box.

"Here's 100PiB of unlabeled neural net weights. Knock yourselves out."

Yeah, there's also a rubbish dump converted to a amphitheater next door that randomly and spontaneously catches fire. VOC contaminated soil at Fairchild, Intersil and Intel sites s…