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It also concludes with a pitch to become a member of their program.

You can ban what’s done with the software/hardware, just as we ban assault with a deadly weapon.

Are you relentlessly optimistic and bit sycophantic? Maybe that’s what she means.

An error in any of the orbital math may have seen them flung out into space with no chance of recovery.

The FTC is the weak link here. The FTC and Department of Justice divvy up their prosecution of monopolies. Firms prosecuted by the FTC always get off scot free.

Yes! I have struggled with this concern for a while now. I think that humans are the ultimate arbiters of quality for humans. Nothing that is non-human can make that determination …

This is mostly an advertisement with some dubious information in it.

This is not new. None of the Arab countries have ever fully aligned with the US. They routinely host Russia and China and buy their hardware. They will continue to host the US and …

Smoking causes cancer.

Can this model of physics predict physical events? Show me an example.

Because many people cannot or will not accept ambiguity. Charitably, I suppose this comes from a desire to logically deduce risk by multiply the severity of the consequences by the…

When I was a kid I noticed that if I laid on my side for a bit, the colors in one eye would be significantly red shifted. I also noticed that closing your eyes for a while on a per…

"who buys a brother" eyes shift left

Not just police... the NSA as well. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/tech/the-nsa-buys-americans-i...

That's right... CFIUS has long been monitoring and regulating foreign countries purchasing land in the United States. This article is attempting to turn the status quo into news.

Where e^-X and 1-e^-X intersect is 0.69. Mumbo? perhaps. Jumbo? perhaps not.

The author seems to be confused about inductive and deductive reasoning. He writes, "To that end, this hypothesis represents the last idea considered, only after all other possibil…

The US political scene is not that crazy historically and certainly much less crazy than a lot of other places in the world. I think a lot of us have this broad, seemingly undefina…

Was this generated by AI? It seems like a copy-paste of a math textbook into a the form of a comic (but without the substance of a comic).

Not harder, per se, just different. Much of the psychomotor coordination used to land an airplane is learned by flying the actual plane--knowing the "feel" of the jet. In your frie…

These simulators are fantastic, but I have yet to see a simulator that incorporates the interactions between pilots and air traffic control. One of the most difficult parts of bein…

The author is describing two cases of poor management. The first are self-interested managers. The second are laissez-faire (in a bad way) leaders who have all but abdicated their …

He does. You can hear his New York accent all the way through his books.

Psychotic indeed. It would feel like working for the mad hatter.