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There is an old parable about a frog and a scorpion: >A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the s…

Are you trying to say that the legal system should only focus on your individual problems? Here's a tip: "the world" is not the same thing as "your world"

Sergey Brin too, with company massage rooms at early Google. As others have pointed out, it's also how Facebook was started. Sometimes I look back at my youth, and think about how …

This may be controversial, but I think software is suffering from shrinkflation. We complain when tools like Photoshop or MS Word move to a subscription cloud model, but maybe they…

This sounds fun, I have a good one. How about your employer has to cover the rent or mortgage of an average single-family unit within a 30-minute rush hour commute of the office if…

Probably cookies and javascript. Lots of sites would like to make the paywalls immediate, but they won't get ranked highly on search engines if they don't show the article's conten…

They can also be a canary for other issues, like mold accumulation.

Good question - I'm even typing this with thumbs now! Thinking back, it was during a time when most phones were small enough to fit comfortably in one small hand. People would hold…

+1 to offline computer labs. Our primary school had one in the '90s, but they only let us in for an hour or two each week. The teachers didn't know how to use the computers, and th…

Of course solar panels cannot provide enough power to drive a car for any significant distance, but that doesn't make them useless. I know, because I put solar panels on an ICE car…

Sounds like they should label it more clearly, but this story looks like a funny hack to me. Some states only allow the sale of beer and wine in places like gas stations and grocer…

Yes, but those companies still have to hire people to do the breaking and fixing. OpenAI could become a fully automated business ouroboros.

That's why OpenAI will also sell support contracts to debug and fix what their tools produce. Some occasional broken code isn't necessarily a problem if it can lead to more sales. …

If you're in the US, find your nearest national forest and take a scenic drive through it. When you get back, let us know how many opiate addicts you saw.

I've always wondered, is Earth's electrical ground significantly different from that of a random planet hundreds of light years away? If two spaceships from different parts of the …

You joke, but until the year 2000, open-source asymmetric encryption such as TLS was export-controlled as a munition under ITAR in the United States. Apparently the government didn…

Regardless of your perception of fairness, you should be aware that waitstaff usually remember repeat customers who never leave a tip. It might not be a great idea to frequent the …

They did make a movie out of Heinlein's Starship Troopers . But the director, Paul Verhoeven, lived through WWII and found the militaristic ethos so abhorrent that he threw out mos…