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Can't speak to pesticides, but lead would have been detected in blood tests

This will be interesting to watch. If I bought an autonomous car and the autonomous mode was disabled for a few days or even weeks while a bug was fixed I can always fall back to d…

These cars can and do slow down or even stop and wait for human assistance in response to unexpected situations. I'm actually quite surprised this didn't trigger here, although we …

But autonomous vehicles tend to perform best on freeways, that's where they are most likely to be allowed

I'm a bit disappointed in myself that it didn't occur to me to submit my CV in A3.

I was surprised that the underlying format doesn't implement compression (though I assume objects can be compressed). Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised since I often get text only P…

It will do that if it doesn't already know what direction you're travelling, which is usually because you've just activated navigation and you aren't moving yet. Unless I happen to…

I bought my iPhone XS at launch and it just reached 80%, although on the latest version of iOS 80% doesn't get you as far as it once did. I'm not a super heavy smartphone user thou…

Five years is much too short, although it's nice to see that it's measured from the date of sale stop rather than start.

I'll be interested to know if it applies to things like AirPods, those would be more challenging to redesign with replaceable batteries (though obviously not impossible).

What about AirPods and the like? I'm all for it with phones and everything else, but some devices are small enough that non-replaceable batteries might well be justified.

Shouldn't that be "in vivo diagnostic medical devices"?

What's stopping you learning about philosophy now? Do you not have time, not know where to start, or just don't have the motivation any more?

I definitely agree, but I do think for a lot of subjects schools can provide benefits that are hard or impossible to find on your own, such as access to equipment and facilities, d…

This is all undoubtably true, but are any of these worth four years and a ton of debt? Perhaps for some individuals, but across the board?

Credentialism and signalling are well established. At a broader level it's the old 'correlation vs causation' chestnut. Policymakers notice that people with education earn more, an…

The merchants are lucky no one got hurt. Imagine being a guard, thinking what you were guarding was worth x amount, and it was actually worth 10x that and you get killed or injured…

I don't think that makes a difference, because the shipping company has accepted liability for the stolen goods. The company looked at the value of the goods, and decided on these …

I should really start reading the HN comments before opening the article, it would save a lot of time

Requiring them to make their beds doesn't strike me as unreasonably petty, and to the extent that they do make soldier follow petty rules it's often done with a purpose, usually to…

"Plain" text can contain hidden characters such as zero width spaces which won't be visible to someone reading it but could be used for identification purposes.

But it's not like they're dismantling the 4G infrastructure yet right? For a while at least I would have assumed people moving to 5G would steadily free up capacity on 4G bands.

Previously a lot of carrier would lock down the ability to share a phone's internet connection. This was the main reason cellular hotspot devices existed. Nowadays people just use …

On the whole I like the idea that someone sending bogus legal demands has to bear some costs, as doubtful as it is that they'd actually pursue him for costs.

I suppose it depends on the field. A retired athlete probably still has a lot of useful things to say about their sport, whereas other fields really require you to stay up to date …