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I just installed Windows Pro on a new machine the other day with a key given to me by a friend. During the install process it asks if you want to use a personal account or domain a…

Another commenter pointed out the factual error about vitamin D coming from IR vs. UV, but there’s another misconception in this post. The amount of IR you get exposed to is not th…

The common knowledge is that Microsoft doesn’t need to be worried about antitrust action because they don’t have a monopoly on the OS anymore. But on the other hand, a lot of peopl…

That story happened when both the company and financial markets in general were in the dumps. As you can see from the headline, times have changed.

I don’t think that definition is right. Nobody will argue that Apple isn’t a tech company, and the iPhone isn’t zero-marginal-cost.

There’s a public process when provisions are added to the laws, but the discussions where each side figures out whether their proposal is going to pass happens in private before th…

This is how negotiations work everywhere for any kind of deal. Think of some successful past legislation you support - I guarantee that it was negotiated behind closed doors. Negot…

Perhaps you’re eating some food that has been supplemented with vitamin D. For example, one cup of milk fortified with vitamin D might have 100 UI (as much as six steaks).

Humans in Northern Europe have adapted to those conditions with very light skin that maximizes sunlight exposure. > And how do you that for a fact? It's nutrition science. It's not…

At the grocery store I can bolt at a moment’s notice if I see anything sketchy happening. No can do on an airplane. There could be a guy sitting next to me and coughing all over me…

I read that there is 15 UI of vitamin D in a steak. You need 25 or 100 times that per day. It’s more likely that humans evolved to get their vitamin D from sunlight (although we al…

Wow, that’s astonishingly cheap. What’s wrong with these? How is the range? Can they drive at highway speeds?

I wonder if the deployment of EV charging infrastructure is how society starts recognizing the costs of free parking.

This way of thinking doesn’t quite make sense to me. Since those companies are huge, they could within them contain an organization that has more resources than Dropbox dedicated t…

As an advertiser how do I buy user data from Google photos?

How do they make money from giving their users free photo storage? I think the only path for that to be profitable was to grow the username for future subscription revenue.

So these random people are going to be put in power without making any ideological commitments, no platform, no coalition, no campaign promises. Where are these rookies going to ge…

From my perspective, that’s pretty much how it works anyway. At the end of the day you’re sampling from a distribution. You can improve the outcome by networking, interview prep, a…

I don’t find it too surprising that more Democrats have an opinion of QAnon. There’s a small segment of people who actually have consumed the material and believe in it, and a much…

The important question is how much demand does each dollar of marketing create. It would be poor decision-making to just assume marketing is a bad idea because they are already abl…

Demand is affected by price. If marketing increased demand they could sell the same number of units for a higher price.

I can imagine some marketing genius saying that “up” and “lift” are both positive words while “in” and “crease” are neutral.

Auctions feel unfair to consumers. The free marketing hype from the product selling out may be worth a lot more to them than selling a few consumer-grade units for high prices at a…

Yeah, I don’t think this thread is entirely relevant to this particular case, but the parent comment was about the anti-tech actions uniting the two political parties.