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This was honestly more secure than I expected. Nothing that would survive defcon but that’s a neat sync protocol.

I really disagree about the lighting, as they were installing it the contrast between the bright, navigable newly lit stations and the dim, grimier feeling older ones was stark. I …

Depends on the type of button, but conductive tape can work - https://alexmeub.com/automating-capacitive-buttons-with-swit...

With any luck, by the time we're serious about sending big spacecraft out and about we'll have figured out a workable fusion drive. You'd still need to launch them from space since…

Amazon, Walmart, Etsy... my kingdom for a marketplace that doesn't become just a dumping ground for shady fly-by-night dropshippers.

Yes, but the AI that is metaphor is comparing to does not create more food. More to the point, it may not create more jobs. After a few decades of turmoil the industrial and agricu…

Here's a fun collection of Soviet maps of DC - https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/ Someone on reddit got the actual maps but the link has bitrotted, wayback saved s…

I didn't feel like this article necessarily idolized it; the author seemed pretty even-handed about strengths and weaknesses. The interesting question in all of these kinds of thin…

There's a wikipedia page with a few more details / rebuttals from various sources - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aligned,_Multiple-transient_Ev...

I mostly agree with your points, but I think the involuntary incarceration is a major rock and a hard place situation. There are definitely people for whom it would be a compassion…

GBY is Gesher Bnot Ya'akov, an archeological site in Israel, it’s in the first paragraph of the abstract.

Pretty cool, although the heatmaps have a little of the "this is just a population density map" effect. https://xkcd.com/1138/ It would be cool to modify them to be per-capita, alt…

How about Taraxacum officinale, the common dandelion? It’s not quite all across the globe but pretty close, and is so adapted that it is not considered invasive any more in most pl…

Feature request: Let me filter and alert based on a distance, not just sort. e.g. "Lathe" within 100 miles of Baltimore. GovDeals lets you do this, but their distance filter is ver…

Giving your customers the idea that you really need the money is terrible advice. They will think you’re insolvent and start looking for alternatives. It’s better to just be persis…

I've been working on legislative data for 15 years now, on open source scrapers with OpenStates and running a commercial product targeted at professionals (competitor to those in t…

Unfortunately that just isn't true in large parts of the US. Many cities have no public transit, and no accessible grocery stores. Being able to live car free is pretty much limite…

Wow even as a bit of a rocket nerd i'd never thought about it that way, that's pretty cool!

"Space" is 100km. The moon at its closest is about 350,000km. So the jump from the former to the latter is... significant.

I think I phrased this poorly. Obviously nobody is genetically "better" than anyone else, but that's what many Pronatalists think.

Pronatalist also usually implies a racist/nationalist angle, some of the reason you want more births is because your people are genetically better than immigrants in some way. This…

I agree with this approach in general, but in reality this is just thinly veiled layoffs. If you have thousands of career employees with houses and kids in school and you tell them…

A thou on any decent mill is no problem. Given the teeny tiny endmill the author was using, I suspect they were using a small mill with a very fast spindle. Maybe something like a …

I just want to second this; a ton of parents I know had kids ready to do it earlier but waited until a major holiday/break when everyone would be home anyway to knock it out.

A friend wanted to try this, but no daycares would do it.