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Merchants often pay a chargeback fee on top of refunding the main charge. Additionally, merchants with lots of fraud or other chargeback issues are likely to be dropped by payment …

I suspect this is a real problem for charities, though. If those bots are using stolen credit cards, the "donations" are going to cost the charities money after they pay extra fees…

This article claims 104 mph, not 24 mph: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/us/timeline-air-canada-collis...

This also requires knowing how much it will shrink, and accurately gauging if I've left enough buffer when trying something on at the store.

Wikipedia has some notes on why least squares, and how you might get there from other assumptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_squares#Statistical_test... . Also, quadratic…

I feel like there's a bit of a jump from "tech-savvy" to de-soldering things on an expensive piece of home electronics. As it stands now, though, I agree that turning off the smart…

Troy Hunt has been running Have I Been Pwned for years. He even uses the k-anonymity model to allow you to search if a password has been pwned without giving him the password if yo…

I enjoyed reading the article, but I'm pretty thrown by the benchmarks and conclusion. All of the times are reported to a single digit of precision, but then the summary is claimin…

Thank you! You're right that's the sort of "hacked together" solution that looks cool but beyond my abilities, and I appreciate the first two links.

Can you link an example of a window unit ERV? I tried searching briefly, and came across some folks hacking together units to make them work with windows or adding their own ductin…

That makes sense along the lines of their second proposal, but doesn't address the concerns of the first. Part of democracy means voting for the folks who govern you, but a prisone…

>2) It's just generally good to diversify into your competitors. Every company does this, especially when the price is cheap. This definitely isn't a thing that every company does …

> What’s Apple’s default time frame for security support? This isn't thaaaaat far out of support. Their last security update for iOS 15 was just earlier this year, and they only dr…

Maybe I'm misreading your comment, but you seem like you're talking about privatizing this research whereas the other commenter seems to be talking about public cuts leading to a r…

I'm a man, and had wonderful experiences with my many (mostly male) roommates, with only occasional hiccups. Saying adult men cannot live together seems pretty excessive.

On the spectrum of illegality, things can get a lot more extreme than a bit of copyright infringement.

As a counterpoint, what fraction of the future engineers who will touch the project are likely to be able to competently edit the finite automata based version without introducing …

I'm not in near deep enough to have any ideas what you're talking about, and the link didn't really help. Can you explain? Who is Tim Peters? How were they slandered? What did the …

>dangerously high levels of mercury All the better for a tuna substitute! More seriously, from your article >4.86 mg/kg in liver tissue from a snake that was 4.7 m long but overall…

Comments like this remind me I might be the only person in Massachusetts honestly calculating my use tax for my tax return every year.

>On the other hand, even 0.01% is not acceptable when the system is responsible for human lives. I've got bad news for you about a whole lot of medical tests and interventions if 0…

For those who don't know, the rind can also be just plain eaten. Maybe I'm just a heathen, but I find it far too delicious to ever waste on a pot of soup.

Nice, I really enjoyed listening to a couple of the ones you added. They were at the top of the page when I loaded it, and I listened to and enjoyed them before connecting them wit…

I don't think "consumer gadget" comes across particularly negatively or dismissively, and don't see this playing out at all like the Ratner's case. Also, it seems like you might be…

How is the book a smartphone training guide? I've read it a few times with my toddler and enjoyed it, and felt like it was a very different experience from screentime (which they d…