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These bills all suddenly appeared , as if by magic, in multiple state houses only a very short time after Zuck was on the stand in the Facebook trial early in the year testifying t…

> Content providers, like MPAA films, should have to identify what sort of content they are providing. Then I can give my kids a device configured to allow some or all of that at m…

> These days I see people throwing around the term DevOps in contexts that strike me as odd. > Maybe the term has evolved to the point where I’ve been left behind, but I think it’s…

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And set the stage for "Space 1999"'s lunar escape from earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999

For the old mechanical machines (whether powered by a crank or powered by an electric motor) yes, the term "adding machine" was because, for most, all they could do is add: https:/…

Then, after researching amperage and wire gauge, pay attention to the fact that power losses in wires from the inherent resistance thereof is proportional to the square of the curr…

> This is a very shady dark pattern by Alphabet corporation. Advertising company (Doubleclick [1]) wants phone numbers to better target ads. No surprise there. [1] The company curr…

> which can pose a significant (and growing, as standards improve) obstacle for older cars. At least for my state, the emissions test a car has to pass is whatever it was supposed …

> Most buyers get title insurance, This is because all lenders require title insurance as a requirement for receiving the loan monies. So for almost all buyers they have no choice,…

Local governments that very much want to get their tax monies, even if receiving them is delayed by a few years before someone buys the property.

> so I didn't understand why automakers kept shoving them in. The article explained why. Since 2018 in the US, due to the proliferation of giant trucks being used as passenger vehi…

Likely because, in space, reflective items don't heat up as much from sunlight as would a dark, energy absorbing, material. Shedding heat in space is a difficult enough endeavor al…

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> Anytime someone is an actual expert at anything, AI output appears insufficient or incomplete or outright misleading. The term for when the press "gets it wrong" is Gell-Mann Amn…

> very low density (relatively speaking to today) make them more robust against gamma-rays and other radiation problems once outside the atmosphere? Yes. Large size transistors (an…

> Where do you draw the line? If they want me to have some "special device", they pay for the hardware for me to have said "special device". My private phone is not for their use, …

Indeed. If $job is not willing to buy and hand me a "work phone" then they are out of luck, nothing for $job gets put onto my private phone. If they think they need this ability, t…

The article implied (but did not seem to ever state) that they simply added liquid cooled cold plates to all the other components that were previously air cooled. But it did not so…

Title is inaccurate. The "bill" is not canceled. Trump canceled the "signing" ceremony for the bill (and so far is stating he will not sign it). If he fails to sign or veto it then…

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It does not reach headline news because everyone just accepts that the "filter" is imperfect. But, for some reason, little twelve year old Jimmy obtaining access to porn evokes som…

> so most people can just charge their EV in their driveway every night. That does presume that those "most people" have a driveway where they can do charging. I.e., all apartment …