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See also the similar book NeuroTribes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroTribes

The one in Georgia is pronounced Al-binny. Sometimes Awwl-binn-eeh.

>The large recording device was designed to detach if the cable was raised for repair. Clever!

It sounds like you're right. Also, that's the book I read way back then! Neat, I'll have to pick it up again.

Unrelated but fun story about antagonists and undersea cables that I saw in some Cold War history book in college. The CIA had cooked up a bonkers covert mission to send a submarin…

Documented testimony of flagrant disregard for interstate law might have something to do with it. If one of the many jurisdictions passed through has camera footage with the car an…

You are replying to OP who wrote the article. I might have missed it but I don’t think they described any ongoing legal action against this particular copycat.

Friction stir welding is popular in rocketry because it is very controllable.

This twitter reply sums it up well: “SUCCESS! We now now max pressure the tank can hold and the damage a rupture might do.”

Why not both?

"There have been five X-37 orbital missions. The spaceplane's first mission, USA-212, was launched in April 2010 and returned to Earth in December 2010. A second X-37 was launched …

Where I’m from in southern USA, there are 65mph state highways with 4 way traffic light intersections. There is always a “stop light ahead” sign, and the rule is simple: if you are…

A lot of Amazon warehouses operate roughly 24/7, so there are multiple shifts. Also, keep in mind that there are truck drivers, vending supply stockers, safety specialists, IT folk…

Actually, pretty much every Amazon FC (at least in North America) has free coffee machines in the breakrooms. Some FCs have really bad coffee, but it is there and it is free. It us…

https://medium.com/@josefow/streets-paved-with-gold-sfs-ridi...

For reference, in the United States, the amount of money spent on road maintenance per state controlled mile looks something like this: * $2,700 in Alabama * $80,000 in Massachuset…

False equation. It is silly to compare the operation of the entire US government to a small special ops team from a 3-letter agency using a small special ops court to compel a smal…

I’m 24 and this is why I switched to iPhone 6 or 7 years ago, I was being left out of group chats.

When I was a foolhardy college student I figured out that if the cited vehicle make on my city parking ticket didn’t match my registration, I could get appeal the ticket via a web …

True. However, I feel that UPS has the customer obsession factor that other 100 year old companies don’t. See, for instance, the parent headline. UPS is fanatical about delivering …

You’re talking about amazon packages. I’m talking about all packages in the entire world.