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The US government has no authority to break up a monopoly just because users don't like its ads. Google continues to provide a valuable service, and your cost is the ads you're ser…

Kind of predictable. Google's a business. Surprise, surprise, you can't rely on its free services long-term.

LOL. The article completely ignores that today's 40-somethings will be 60-something 20 years from now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State... edit: Seeing …

If I yell "he's got a gun" as a prank intending people to stampeded out of a movie theater, trampeling and killing a someone in the panic, I'm responsible for the very predictable …

It's a plausible mechanism but a bogus study. With most of their confidence intervals including hazard ratios of 1.0 (or very close to it), they need to rule out even slight correl…

In theory, sure. But according to most of my domain WHOIS records, the technical contact is somebody named asdflkj_34890f@privacyprotection.com.

Exactly this. It's mostly just the ivory-tower kind of docs that say "acetaminophen" over "Tylenol." If you use the generic of something like Zosyn "Pipercillin/Tazobactam" you'll …

How is this different than a standard opening database? Chessgames.com has had this for probably at least 10 years-- https://www.chessgames.com/perl/explorer as do a bunch of other…

> I can assure you that the general population has no idea what half the nouns in that sentence mean, let alone how to do any of that. Keep in mind you're on HN -- we tend to be a …

Just use iptables on your firewall/router to reroute all traffic on port 53 to your DNS server.

There's so much effort put into timing the next recession. It's not just that they can't even do that with meaningful certainty-- it's that they also can't tell you how significant…

IANAL but the basic sniff test is could "Postwoman" be confused with "Postman?" I think the answer is yes. With the author calling it an alternative to "Postman," you have the auth…

Why do you say that? With the slope and adjustable suspension I'd think it'd be easier-- you just lower the truck and brush the snow down in a few swoops.

I don't think SpaceX ever made that accusation. At the time (2016) Musk said the cause of failure was unknown. He was asked directly about sabotage on Twitter and replied that they…

During prototype tests you don't have to target 6-sigma, obviously, but I hope we get a post-mortem without spin.

Okay but the one time you might expect "teachers" to get the documentation right is when they're throwing their kids into solitary confinement.

Sounds like you only know teachers in Illinois.

> Eli, 7, was secluded more than a dozen times in kindergarten and nearly 50 times in first grade while attending The Center in East Moline, records show What. the. fuck?

I'm with you. You're contributing a thought piece and unobtrusively include a link to your bank at the bottom. It's not overtly biased, and it's neat you're getting attention for y…

In that quote the CEO's describing operating cash flow, a GAAP measure. Nothing about it is unconventional. And it includes real-world depreciation to a large degree since maintena…

Which are? Having ridden on buses and Amtrak, buses go to the same places and more, cheaper, faster, with more available times, and keeping on schedule (the NE corridor may be fast…

You could argue that roads ought to be fully funded according to use and therefore turn a profit. Something like a value-added tax. Just about every other essential business turns …

HFTs scale their operation across a huge population of securities. These Ukranians apparently targeted just a handful.

So did Magic Leap default, or is the loan newly made with JPM to hold the patents while the loan is outstanding? Seems like the IP in this case isn't very valuable to JPM* and this…