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It is intelligence created by design rather than by natural selection.

LLCs limit your financial liability, but you can still work thousands of hours on a business and end up making nothing. If you work the same thousands of hours as an employee, you …

There have been several attempts to make battery swapping for cars a thing. This includes Tesla's attempt and another company that went bankrupt. For some reason, it does not seem …

Seems like a flawed design to have the entire national flight system go down from a single point of failure. Do we not have redundancy and / or distributed systems so this sort of …

I don't understand why this would cause sadness. I found most of questions I asked it could be answered as well by using a search engine. Sure, it was more concise than searching b…

I've always interpreted it as meaning no patch is available yet for a vulnerability. Does not matter whether a decision to patch or not has been made. Doesn't matter if it's been e…

Yes, I used to file taxes with paper forms from the IRS years ago and this is free. There isn't even an income limit to do it this way as far as I know. But of course it's more of …

What's the point of this? It's not clever or useful and could cause people to waste time and gas getting re-routed. It's no different than spamming a forum or website.

Making DST permanent is essentially forcing everyone to wake up earlier in the day. All we're doing is calling 7 am, now 8 am to get people to psychologically accept this. This is …

The focus should be on walkable communities. Biking and transit help but they are not good solutions for elderly or people trying to commute reliably. EVs are still bad for the env…

I had this happen to me. Went to order something for pickup from maps. I thought it was the restaurant's page but the order went through postmates. When I arrived to pick up my ord…

Some advice if you find it hard to skip meals - you can drink things like coffee, tea or water. Skip the sugar of course, but it helps your stomach feel less empty to have liquids.…

Privacy was never a "core value" at Apple. Have people forgot about Prism? During that, Apple bent over backward to give data to the nsa. Other companies like yahoo sued to try pre…

They just need to create some incentive to opt in. It could be get some discount or your devices get a fallback if you allow other users to get a fallback in the event of internet …

We should save some of the mosquitoes in labs in case there are unintended consequences. Then if needed, they can be bred and brought back to the environment.

The interest in these crashes is because technically, it's AI that has killed these people. That is fascinating in of itself. Are there any other automakers that have deaths from a…

Madeoff's claim has always been that it was meant to be a temporary, short term thing and he believed he could get himself out of it before anyone else realized his fraud.

All this is really doing is forcing everyone to wake up earlier in the morning. You're basically calling what is now 7am, 8am. Instead of forcing schools and companies to start ear…

I think comments like this dismiss all the people who are using bitcoin for actual, good reasons. They are mostly in developing nations which is why they seem to be getting ignored…

Melatonin and turmeric. The melatonin is actually more to help me wake up than fall asleep. I used to have a horrible time waking up. Now I usually wake up right before my alarm go…

I had considered asking this from a web developer/node perspective. But I increasingly do other things like run different databases, golang, etc so I left it open-ended for that re…

I know VMs don't work for it yet. How has been otherwise programming on a mac with arm chip?

It's great that people are doing things like this to reduce their carbon footprint. But one thing that seems to get neglected is that changes in behavior and lifestyle can also sig…